Pregnancy and birth services

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Title: Pregnancy and birth services (Links to English resource)
Summary: This translated video provides information on involving health services early and fully understanding your childbirth options to give a great start to a rewarding birth experience. The video outlines the who’s who during pregnancy, birth and newborn care, and helps to understand which records and paperwork are required as well as payment options for having a baby and newborn care in Victoria.

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1. At the right bottom of the screen activate closed captions by clicking on the ‘CC’ symbol.
2. Then click on ‘Settings’ located next to the ‘CC’ symbol.
3. Click on ‘Subtitles’ and choose your preferred language.

As the fonts for Karen and Burmese do not work well as subtitles, we have burnt them onto the videos directly for you to watch on YouTube.

Organisation: Department of Health & Human Services
Publishing date: August 2017
Last reviewed: August 2017
Target audience: New arrivals

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