Obstetric Services Newcastle – Dr Denise Nesbitt

Professionally looking after your reproductive health, pregnancy and childbirth.

Prenatal Care / Antenatal Care

The purpose of prenatal care is to help keep you and your baby healthy when pregnancy occurs. Dr Nesbitt can help identify potential risk factors and identify health problems early. This process aims to prevent potential health problems throughout the course of your pregnancy and focuses the mother and child’s health alike.

Dr Nesbitt helps you and your family navigate:

• Medical checkups
• Recommendations on managing a healthy lifestyle
• Medical information such as maternal physiological and biological changes in pregnancy
• Prenatal nutrition including diet and prenatal vitamins
• Professional care for women with high risk and complex pregnancies.

Dr Nesbitt’s aim is to help you and your family learn about about the key things they can do to give your unborn child a healthy start to life. She will schedule with you the necessary checkups over the course of your pregnancy according to your individual situation and needs.

Postnatal care

Postnatal care given is given to the mother and her newborn baby immediately after the birth of the child and for the first 6 to 8 weeks.

Dr Nesbitt helps you and your child with:

• Medical check-ups
• Detecting and preventing diseases – For early diagnosis and treatment of any complications
• Recommendations on managing a healthy lifestyle with good nutrition
• Support the mother and family for an easy transition to home life with a newborn child
• Guidance on breastfeeding, contraception and family planning

The post pregnancy stage can feel overwhelming with the struggles of breastfeeding, connecting with your baby, settling and sleeping. Dr Nesbitt provides individualised care to help new parents ease feelings of uncertainty, exhaustion and being overwhelmed.

Dr Nesbitt will schedule with you the necessary checkups over the course of post pregnancy period according to your individual needs.