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betterhealth.vic.gov.au Department of Health
  • The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) service is a free health service. It offers inclusive, community-based support to all Victorian families and carers with children from birth to school age.
  • The MCH service helps every Victorian child to grow, learn, and thrive. It supports the health, wellbeing and parenting journey of all parents, carers and families.
  • The service welcomes everyone, including kinship carers, foster parents, grandparents, and rainbow families. It is for all Victorian families regardless of Medicare, visa status or other circumstances.
  • You can visit MCH nurses at 10 key stages of your child's development. The visits focus on feeding and lactation, child and family health, postnatal wellbeing, safety, learning, and growth and development.
  • Your MCH nurse links you with first time parenting groups local community activities, and can offer additional visits and services when extra support is needed.
  • 24-hour telephone support from MCH nurses is available from the Maternal and Child Health Line (Tel. 13 22 29).

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Reviewed on: 12-09-2023