Hi,

There is a birth centre attatched to the hospital i go to.

Birth centres in WA are for low risk women. You can not go there if you do not have a completely normal pregnancy with no complications and you can not go there if you have to be induced. You must go into natural labour and not be a possible medical risk at all. At the birth centre you can have a water birth i am pretty sure and there is no pain relief available other than hot water and hot packs. But if something were to go wrong and you needed assistance or needed pain relief then they can easily move you quickly over to the hospital.

At the hospital water births are not available, you give birth in your delivery suite and pain relief is readily available.

Its probably different at every hospital and birth centre in every state though so i would check out and research your options when you get to Adelaide.