Release of the New South Wales Mothers and Babies report 2002.

Release of the New South Wales Mothers and Babies 2000 Report.

Release of New South Wales Mothers and Babies 2001.

• there were 85,858 babies born to 84,379 mothers in 2001, the lowest number for the last five years; • the number of teenage mothers continued to decline, falling from 4,291 (4.9 per cent of all mothers) in 1997 to 3,797 (4.5 per cent) in 2001; • there was an increase in the number of mothers aged 35 years and over from 13,465 in 1997 to 15,250 in 2001, an increase from 15.5 to 18.1 per cent; ...

New South Wales mothers and babies 2003.

Newborn feeding practices at the time of discharge from hospital in NSW in 2007: a descriptive study.

OBJECTIVES To describe the pattern of infant feeding at discharge from care after birth and the characteristics of mothers who are at risk of low rates of breastfeeding. METHODS Data were obtained from the NSW Midwives Data Collection for 2007. Information on infant feeding was obtained for babies who were alive at discharge from care after birth. Of 96 030 births reported, 93 505 (97.4%) wer...

Why are children on the NSW North Coast not being vaccinated against chickenpox?

The ObstetriX database is completed in HNELHD maternity units. During the post-natal interview, midwives ask all mothers to nominate whether their baby will identify as Aboriginal and this information is then recorded in the ObstetriX database. Aboriginal births recorded in this database are supplied monthly to the Population Health Unit by the 15 maternity midwifery unit managers in HNELHD to ...