What you need to know
No two people are the same, which is why each patient at Mater, receives individualised care and treatment, taking into consideration a range of factors that are unique to you. Mater takes a patient-centred approach to providing care and each patient is empowered to ask questions and take a proactive lead in making decisions about their healthcare options.
Being informed about your health condition and the treatment options available is essential. We have created a library of thorough, easy-to-understand patient information on a range of health issues, as well as relevant surgical and medical information.
Patient information
A guide to Mater Cancer Care Centre
Abdominoperineal resection/total colectomy with proctectomy
About Mater at Home
Adenoidectomy
After birth—bladder assessment
After birth—care of the new mother
After birth—care of your new baby
After birth—family planning decisions
After birth—planning postnatal appointments with your GP
After birth—thumb and wrist pain
Amanda Flynn Clinic
Antenatal expression of colostrum
Antenatal, postnatal and women's health
Antepartum haemorrhage
Anti-D
Antibiotics
Antibiotics for newborn babies
Antidepressant medication during pregnancy and breastfeeding
Appendectomy
Ask a midwife—FAQs
Assisted vaginal birth
Autologous stem cell transplant
Autopsy—Information for Parents
Babies requiring blood transfusion
Baby and infant reflux
Baby's hip spica
Bathing your baby
Birth options after a previous caesarean section
Bone marrow aspirate and biopsy
Breast cancer and mastectomy
Breast cancer and wide excision
Breastfeeding and your new baby
Breastfeeding essentials
Breastfeeding—how to know if your baby is getting enough breast milk
Breastfeeding—how to know when your baby is ready to feed
Breastfeeding—managing biting
Breastfeeding—managing breast refusal
Bronchiolitis
Bronchoscopy
Caesarean birth
Car safety
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome in pregnancy
Cataract surgery
Cautery of Inferior Turbinates (CIT)
Changing your baby's nappy
Chemoembolisation
Chemotherapy education
Chemotherapy protocols
Children's bronchoscopy
Children's colonoscopy
Children's fasting instructions
Children's fractured forearm
Children's fractured leg
Children's gastroscopy
Children's general surgical procedure
Children's grommets
Children's head injury
Children's hydrocele
Children's hypospadias
Children's inguinal hernia
Children's microlaryngoscopy
Children's minor orthopedic procedures
Children's myringoplasty
Children's orchidopexy
Children's otoplasty
Children's pyloric stenosis
Children's sigmoidoscopy
Children's supracondylar fracture (elbow)
Children's tonsillectomy
Children's umbilical hernia
Children's Willets procedure
Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and amniocentesis
Chronic Neonatal Lung Disease
Chronic pelvic pain
Circumcision
Colonoscopy
Colonoscopy: GlycoPrep-O® bowel preparation (standard)
Colonoscopy: GlycoPrep-O® Kit bowel preparation (Extended)
Colonoscopy: PicoPrep® bowel preparation
Colposcopy results—what are the next steps?
Cord care for your new baby
Cord prolapse—your questions answered
Cystoscopy
Delirium
Do you need to talk about your birth?
Drinks—what’s recommended, what’s off the menu?
Early pregnancy loss—sensitive care at a difficult time
Ectopic pregnancy
Emotional Health Unit
Endometrial ablation
Endometriosis
Enhanced recovery fasting procedure
Epidural
Exercising your abdominal muscles
Expressing your breast milk
Falls prevention
Fetal Growth Scan
Fibroids
Flexible cystoscopy
Following the death of a loved one
Food safety
Formula feeding
Ganglion surgery
Gestational Diabetes
Gestational Diabetes Insulin Guide
Group B streptococcus and pregnancy
Hand hygiene for patients and carers
Head ultrasound scans on babies in the Neonatal Critical Care Unit
Healthy weight in pregnancy
Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
Helpful information for your child's stay
Helping your toddler adjust to your new baby
Hepatitis B and C during pregnancy
Herpes and pregnancy
High Tibial Osteotomy
Hip fracture
HIV and pregnancy
Hope—a resource booklet for bereaved parents
How to use mini-dose glucagon to increase low blood glucose levels during sick day management
How to wrap your baby
Hypoglycaemia in newborn babies
Hysterectomy
Hysteroscopy
I’m pregnant, now what?
Important instructions to follow after receiving anaesthesia
Induction of labour
Interstitial cystitis and painful bladder syndrome
Iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy
Jaundice and phototherapy
Kidney pelvis dilatation
Kidney stone prevention
Labour and birth information
Labour and birth—cord clamping
Labour and birth—third stage
Labour and birth—warm water immersion and water birth
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Laparoscopy
Laparotomy
Liver biopsy
Managing pregnancy discomforts
Managing stress during pregnancy
Mater Outpatient Telehealth
Meal plans and recipes
Mirena
Miscarriage
Miscarriage—threatened
Molar pregnancy
Monitoring your preterm baby's growth
Morning sickness and hyperemesis
Nasal surgery
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Newborn test and screening
Orthopaedic physiotherapy screening clinic
Ovarian cysts
OzDAFNE: A program for people with type 1 diabetes
Paced Bottle Feeding
Parathyroidectomy
Pastoral Care for the whole person
Patient escalation processes
Perineal massage
Pilates during pregnancy
Polycystic ovary syndrome
Postpartum haemorrhage
Pregnancy—high blood pressure
Pregnancy—your baby’s movements and what they mean
Preterm pre-labour rupture of membranes
Preventing pressure injuries
Prolapse
Pterygium surgery
Pulse oximetry screening of newborn babies
Radical prostatectomy
Recommended medicines for your baby
Recovering from abdominal surgery
Recovery College
Reducing your baby’s pain during invasive tests or procedures
Refugee maternity service
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
Safe exercises
Safety and security for your new baby
Selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT)
Self breast check
Shoulder dystocia in babies
Shoulder reconstruction
Shoulder replacement
Skin-to-skin care for babies
Sleeping babies safely
Smoking, alcohol and drug use during pregnancy and breastfeeding
Social work services
Spinal care following surgery
Staying safe while in hospital
Sterile water injections for relief of back pain in labour
Stress urinary incontinence
Support people and doulas for women during labour
Testing for Down syndrome and other chromosome abnormalities
The facts on nutrients important for pregnancy
The responsible person
Third and fourth degree perineal tears
Threatened preterm labour
Thyroidectomy Hemithyroidectomy Parathyroidectomy
Tongue-tie
Tonsillectomy
Total hip replacement
Total knee replacement
TRAM flap and DIEP flap repair
Trans-rectal ultrasound and prostate biopsy
Trans-urethral resection of the prostate (TURP)
Trial of void
Trigger finger surgery
Twin to twin transfusion syndrome
Ultrasound scan—inconclusive result
Ultrasound scan—your 18 to 20 week scan
Understanding and managing acute pain
Understanding your healthcare expenses as a private patient
Ureteric stent
Ureteroscopy and Lithoclast
Vaccination recommendations during pregnancy
Vascular access device (PICC line insertion)
Venesection
Vitamin D deficiency
What happens if my baby is breech?
What to expect—is this normal?
Women's health - Hysterectomy
Women's healthcare in a Catholic Hospital
Your new pregnancy after your baby has died
A guide to Mater Cancer Care Centre
Abdominoperineal resection/total colectomy with proctectomy
About Mater at Home
Adenoidectomy
After birth—bladder assessment
After birth—care of the new mother
After birth—care of your new baby
After birth—family planning decisions
After birth—planning postnatal appointments with your GP
After birth—thumb and wrist pain
Amanda Flynn Clinic
Antenatal expression of colostrum
Antenatal, postnatal and women's health
Antepartum haemorrhage
Anti-D
Antibiotics
Antibiotics for newborn babies
Antidepressant medication during pregnancy and breastfeeding
Appendectomy
Ask a midwife—FAQs
Assisted vaginal birth
Autologous stem cell transplant
Autopsy—Information for Parents
Babies requiring blood transfusion
Baby and infant reflux
Baby's hip spica
Bathing your baby
Birth options after a previous caesarean section
Bone marrow aspirate and biopsy
Breast cancer and mastectomy
Breast cancer and wide excision
Breastfeeding and your new baby
Breastfeeding essentials
Breastfeeding—how to know if your baby is getting enough breast milk
Breastfeeding—how to know when your baby is ready to feed
Breastfeeding—managing biting
Breastfeeding—managing breast refusal
Bronchiolitis
Bronchoscopy
Caesarean birth
Car safety
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome in pregnancy
Cataract surgery
Cautery of Inferior Turbinates (CIT)
Changing your baby's nappy
Chemoembolisation
Chemotherapy education
Chemotherapy protocols
Children's bronchoscopy
Children's colonoscopy
Children's fasting instructions
Children's fractured forearm
Children's fractured leg
Children's gastroscopy
Children's general surgical procedure
Children's grommets
Children's head injury
Children's hydrocele
Children's hypospadias
Children's inguinal hernia
Children's microlaryngoscopy
Children's minor orthopedic procedures
Children's myringoplasty
Children's orchidopexy
Children's otoplasty
Children's pyloric stenosis
Children's sigmoidoscopy
Children's supracondylar fracture (elbow)
Children's tonsillectomy
Children's umbilical hernia
Children's Willets procedure
Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and amniocentesis
Chronic Neonatal Lung Disease
Chronic pelvic pain
Circumcision
Colonoscopy
Colonoscopy: GlycoPrep-O® bowel preparation (standard)
Colonoscopy: GlycoPrep-O® Kit bowel preparation (Extended)
Colonoscopy: PicoPrep® bowel preparation
Colposcopy results—what are the next steps?
Cord care for your new baby
Cord prolapse—your questions answered
Cystoscopy
Delirium
Do you need to talk about your birth?
Drinks—what’s recommended, what’s off the menu?
Early pregnancy loss—sensitive care at a difficult time
Ectopic pregnancy
Emotional Health Unit
Endometrial ablation
Endometriosis
Enhanced recovery fasting procedure
Epidural
Exercising your abdominal muscles
Expressing your breast milk
Falls prevention
Fetal Growth Scan
Fibroids
Flexible cystoscopy
Following the death of a loved one
Food safety
Formula feeding
Ganglion surgery
Gestational Diabetes
Gestational Diabetes Insulin Guide
Group B streptococcus and pregnancy
Hand hygiene for patients and carers
Head ultrasound scans on babies in the Neonatal Critical Care Unit
Healthy weight in pregnancy
Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
Helpful information for your child's stay
Helping your toddler adjust to your new baby
Hepatitis B and C during pregnancy
Herpes and pregnancy
High Tibial Osteotomy
Hip fracture
HIV and pregnancy
Hope—a resource booklet for bereaved parents
How to use mini-dose glucagon to increase low blood glucose levels during sick day management
How to wrap your baby
Hypoglycaemia in newborn babies
Hysterectomy
Hysteroscopy
I’m pregnant, now what?
Important instructions to follow after receiving anaesthesia
Induction of labour
Interstitial cystitis and painful bladder syndrome
Iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy
Jaundice and phototherapy
Kidney pelvis dilatation
Kidney stone prevention
Labour and birth information
Labour and birth—cord clamping
Labour and birth—third stage
Labour and birth—warm water immersion and water birth
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Laparoscopy
Laparotomy
Liver biopsy
Managing pregnancy discomforts
Managing stress during pregnancy
Mater Outpatient Telehealth
Meal plans and recipes
Mirena
Miscarriage
Miscarriage—threatened
Molar pregnancy
Monitoring your preterm baby's growth
Morning sickness and hyperemesis
Nasal surgery
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Newborn test and screening
Orthopaedic physiotherapy screening clinic
Ovarian cysts
OzDAFNE: A program for people with type 1 diabetes
Paced Bottle Feeding
Parathyroidectomy
Pastoral Care for the whole person
Patient escalation processes
Perineal massage
Pilates during pregnancy
Polycystic ovary syndrome
Postpartum haemorrhage
Pregnancy—high blood pressure
Pregnancy—your baby’s movements and what they mean
Preterm pre-labour rupture of membranes
Preventing pressure injuries
Prolapse
Pterygium surgery
Pulse oximetry screening of newborn babies
Radical prostatectomy
Recommended medicines for your baby
Recovering from abdominal surgery
Recovery College
Reducing your baby’s pain during invasive tests or procedures
Refugee maternity service
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
Safe exercises
Safety and security for your new baby
Selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT)
Self breast check
Shoulder dystocia in babies
Shoulder reconstruction
Shoulder replacement
Skin-to-skin care for babies
Sleeping babies safely
Smoking, alcohol and drug use during pregnancy and breastfeeding
Social work services
Spinal care following surgery
Staying safe while in hospital
Sterile water injections for relief of back pain in labour
Stress urinary incontinence
Support people and doulas for women during labour
Testing for Down syndrome and other chromosome abnormalities
The facts on nutrients important for pregnancy
The responsible person
Third and fourth degree perineal tears
Threatened preterm labour
Thyroidectomy Hemithyroidectomy Parathyroidectomy
Tongue-tie
Tonsillectomy
Total hip replacement
Total knee replacement
TRAM flap and DIEP flap repair
Trans-rectal ultrasound and prostate biopsy
Trans-urethral resection of the prostate (TURP)
Trial of void
Trigger finger surgery
Twin to twin transfusion syndrome
Ultrasound scan—inconclusive result
Ultrasound scan—your 18 to 20 week scan
Understanding and managing acute pain
Understanding your healthcare expenses as a private patient
Ureteric stent
Ureteroscopy and Lithoclast
Vaccination recommendations during pregnancy
Vascular access device (PICC line insertion)
Venesection
Vitamin D deficiency
What happens if my baby is breech?
What to expect—is this normal?
Women's health - Hysterectomy
Women's healthcare in a Catholic Hospital
Your new pregnancy after your baby has died
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