FAQs About planning a positive caesarean

  • A positive caesarean is one where you feel informed supported, and empowered throughout the process. It’s about making choices that matter to you, feeling calm, and creating a joyful, connected birth experience.

  • Ideally, from around 28–34 weeks of pregnancy, or at any stage of your pregnancy when you’re sure you’re having a caesarean.

  • Absolutely, this is a big focus! We want you to have the smoothest possible recovery and so we’ll talk about wound healing, pain management, exercises, how your body heals and how you can help it to heal, breastfeeding after caesarean and how to care for yourself in those early weeks.

  • Absolutely. Sometimes a caesarean will become necessary during labour, and that’s when your positive caesarean birth plan, the knowledge, mindset and preparation strategies we provide can help you feel more positive and supported in the moment.

Planning a Positive Caesarean

Dial a Midwife … we’re here for you - all the way

Support for Women Preparing for a Calm, Empowering caesarean

A caesarean can be a safe, beautiful and deeply positive way to welcome your baby into the world. But too often, women feel like a caesarean means “missing out” on the experience of birth.

Dial a Midwife is here to help you prepare emotionally, mentally and practically for your upcoming birth - things you need to now for your postnatal care so that you can experience the healthiest possible adjustment with the right tools to assist you. With the right tools, mindset and support, you can step into your caesarean feeling calm, confident and empowered.

And the best part? With a Medicare card, this service is completely free.

What’s Included?

This service goes beyond the standard hospital preparation and focuses on your experience:

✨ Understanding the caesarean process – what really happens before, during, and after.
✨ Birth preferences – how to personalise your caesarean and the options that may be available to you.
✨ Mindset and emotional preparation – strategies to reduce anxiety and build confidence.
✨ Partner support – helping your partner understand their role so they can advocate for you and stay calm too.
✨ Postnatal recovery tips – from managing pain and wound care to safely moving your body again.
✨ Breastfeeding and bonding after a caesarean – ensuring a smooth start for you and your baby.

✨ If your caesarean is needed - but not necessarily chosen - we can help with the emotional processing that’s so important for moving forward with peace.

Why plan for a Positive Caesarean?

  • It’s free with a Medicare card – expert midwife support at no cost.

  • It helps you feel in control – so that you can make empowered choices.

  • It reduces fear and anxiety – through knowledge, preparation, and reassurance.

  • It complements your medical care – focusing on the emotional and practical aspects your hospital team may not have time for.

👉 Planning a caesarean? We’re here to make sure you feel supported every step of the way.

Step Into Birth With Confidence

A caesarean doesn’t mean you can’t have a meaningful, joyful birth. We help by offering information, emotional support, strategies and practical tips to make this experience one you’ll look back on with pride.

Accessible and convenient

No matter where you are in Australia, you can book a telehealth (or phone) consultation with your midwife. We offer video and phone consults for women in the privacy and comfort of their own home. For new parents and families in rural and remote Australia, it is comforting to know that a midwife is only a call away. 

Highly Trained Midwives

All of our midwives are not only registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, but also endorsed. Endorsement is available to midwives upon application after completion of at least 5,000 hours of practice and obtaining additional qualifications. Endorsed midwives have a Medicare Provider Number and PBS Prescriber Number. 

Our midwives are experienced in all settings - clinics, public hospitals, private hospitals, birth centre, homebirth, private practice and obstetric services.

available

We offer flexible times for appointments and if you need a same-day appointment, we will always try to accommodate you. Use our service as little – or as much – as you need. We encourage continuity of care and would love to be by your side, online, as you journey through your pregnancy and experience the first few weeks with your new baby. We offer home visits for Sydney-based patients (an additional fee may apply).

Bulk-Billing – free care for Medicare card holders

If you have a Medicare card, our phone and video consults are fully covered by Medicare - there is no out-of-pocket fee or gap with a Medicare card. We’re unable to assist if you are outside of Australia or if you’re currently in hospital, and without a valid Medicare card, a small fee will apply.

Supplement your care

We’re super keen to bridge the gap in care between going home from hospital with your baby, and the 6-week check. We also know from experience that many women feel anxious, leave appointments with unanswered questions and find it so helpful to have a single, trusted midwife on the end of the phone throughout pregnancy and for the first six weeks after the birth of their baby.

midwifery continuity of care

Ad private midwives, we offer care for women as early as a missed period, throughout pregnancy and for the first 6 weeks of baby’s life. For many women, our service will provide the only source of continuity and consistency throughout their birthing year.