If you attend CHAMP Clinic and have your baby at Mater Mothers’ Hospital, you will have access to:

• one of only two midwives during your antenatal care so as to ensure continuity of your care
• support during your postnatal stay and access to CHAMP staff as you need them and additional support for a short time after your discharge, if needed
• referral back to your local community child health nurse.

For women on opioid replacement therapies, we recommend you stay stable on your medication and stop all other recreational drug use. Unless there are other concerns, your baby will be admitted into the postnatal ward with you. You will be given information to help monitor baby’s withdrawal symptoms and will be encouraged to provide most of the supportive care your baby might need. If your baby is discharged home on medication, staff will remain involved in their care until the medication is stopped.