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After your baby arrives

Postnatal care services, in your own home

The core of what EverNurture does. Everything the collective offers once your baby is here, from the visit itself to feeding, checks and how you are travelling.

A new mother resting on the couch at home with her newborn asleep on her chest

What a visit can cover

Postnatal care services for mum, baby and feeding

Postnatal care services at home look after three things in the same visit: your recovery, your baby and feeding. These are not separate appointments to book one by one, and each has its own page if you want the detail. An EverNurture midwife comes to you, so nobody has to get a newborn into the car in the first weeks. Further down, you will find how a visit runs, when to arrange one and the questions that come up most in the early weeks.

  • Postnatal Home Visits

    The visit itself: how long it runs, who it covers and what happens between visits.

  • Mother & Baby Checks

    Weight, growth and wellbeing for your baby, and your own recovery, checked at home.

  • Breastfeeding & Feeding Support

    Breastfeeding, bottle or both. She watches a real feed and works from what she sees.

  • Birth Debrief

    Going back through what happened at your birth, at your pace, once you are ready.

  • Postnatal Emotional Support

    How you are travelling, what is ordinary in the early weeks, and when to ask for more.

One visit, not a menu of appointments

The pages above are not separate bookings. They are the ground a single home visit covers, split up so you can read about the part you are worried about. Postnatal home visits are the shape all of it takes.

A midwife arrives, spends around ninety minutes with you, and works through whatever matters most that day. For one family that is a feed that is not working. For another it is a baby who will not settle, or a birth that needs talking through, or simply someone asking how you are and waiting for the real answer.

Every EverNurture midwife is endorsed, so eligible families can claim a Medicare rebate on postnatal care services at home. Fees are set practice by practice, so ask what postnatal care at home costs with her before you book.

Visits are planned care. If something is urgent, ring 000, or Healthdirect on 1800 022 222 for registered nurse advice at any hour.

Earlier than most people think

The first fortnight is when families most often need postnatal care services and least often ask for them. Arranging a visit before the birth, or in the first days after it, saves trying to organise anything while running on no sleep.

How far into the early weeks each midwife visits varies, so ask her when you make contact. Postpartum midwife care can run for a single visit or across several weeks.

The same midwife can prepare you first

Families who book an antenatal session with the midwife they plan to see afterwards get someone at the door who already knows them, rather than a stranger arriving at the hardest moment.

Further reading

Questions that come up in the early weeks

Some things come up in almost every visit, so we write them up properly rather than leaving them to a paragraph here.

  • Safe sleep for babies

    Red Nose publishes six safe sleep recommendations. What each one means, why back sleeping carries the most weight, and what a safe sleep space actually looks like.

  • Adjusting to parenthood

    The baby blues, where the two week line sits, how partners are affected, and the free Australian helplines worth knowing about before you need them.

  • More from the blog

    Plain answers to the questions that come up in the early weeks, written by the collective and kept to what can be said safely in general.

Arrange a visit

Ready to have a midwife come to you?

Each midwife takes her own bookings by phone or email, and can tell you the areas she visits and when she is free.

Book a home visitAntenatal support