Royal Women's Hospital
Hospital in Parkville, Australia
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Nov 2, 2026
Catriona MoynihanGUEST
I advise them to see a GP or the Melbourne Sexual Health Clinic.
Catriona MoynihanGUEST
or there's a rapid access sexual health clinic for vulnerable women at the Royal Women's Hospital where they can be seen in about two weeks post-assault where they'd have a complete screening performed.
Catriona MoynihanGUEST
So we
AmyHOST
talked about the role of the ED physician and the role of CASA and forensics and the organicology service as well.
Rafa HusainHOST
Yeah, I probably would have prepared more in terms of what that might look like.
Rafa HusainHOST
And look, this goes into the advice that there's a follow-up question that we can go into now actually is of the advice that you did hear, what have you found most useful? I birthed at the Royal Women's and they had a birth and parenting kind of course.
Rafa HusainHOST
And we're like, oh, we'll throw our hat in the ring.
Rafa HusainHOST
Actually, it was fundamentally life-changing in how we experienced that.
Rafa HusainHOST
But if you can seek it out.
Rafa HusainHOST
So I got exposed to that through this parenting course and an app called Cope.
Rafa HusainHOST
which is the Centre of Perinatal Excellence, again, given to me by the Royal Women's.
Rafa HusainHOST
And those two courses, I think, like, I just came back to.
Raelia LewGUEST
So one of the side hustles that I have is Alchemy, which is an intimate lubricant brand.
Raelia LewGUEST
And I created that when I was doing my registrar training in reproductive endocrinology, one of the clinics that I worked in, and this was at this stage, the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, was called the Men and Boys Symptoms After Cancer Clinic.
Raelia LewGUEST
And quite often I was dealing with women who were younger, who'd had breast cancer.
Raelia LewGUEST
They were often us in order to prevent their cancer coming back to take medicines that either shut down their reproductive function completely or even in some cases have had their ovaries removed and that resulting in a surgical menopause so that estrogen wasn't stimulating their breasts.
Erin HollandGUEST
However, once I was down there, things kind of escalated.
Erin HollandGUEST
And next thing I know, I'm at Royal Women's.
Erin HollandGUEST
deciding between losing my tube with emergency surgery or having a chemotherapy injection of methotrexate to try and save the tube, which is what I did choose in the end.
Erin HollandGUEST
And it did work, but then it meant I was toxic and I couldn't try for another three, four months again.
AmandaHOST
So firstly, can you tell us a little bit about yourself, your background as a midwife and maternal child health nurse and what led you to create Safe Hands Parenting?
Claire AndrewsGUEST
yeah absolutely um it's really just such a passion area of mine that really stems from when I first became a parent so a bit of a backstory is I did my um nursing uh a long long time ago now it feels like a different lifetime ago uh worked a little bit as a registered nurse I know but I always knew that I wanted to be a midwife and so I'd always kind of envisaged working in the birthing space and that really early like early days postpartum space and especially pregnancy I'd absolutely adore pregnancy and that's one thing that I miss about my work at the moment that I don't get to do that but that's okay um but yeah so I went um and I did my nursing did my midwifery worked in the public system so I worked at the Royal Women's Hospital for a number of years before I had my first baby and that's cool yeah it was cool it was really busy I ended up working in education there because the thing about even in when I was doing my nursing the thing that the through line that has always been the consistent theme is that I love educating and I never wanted to be a teacher because the idea of spending any time in a school is like terrifying to me.
Claire AndrewsGUEST
But I love that idea of education.
Claire AndrewsGUEST
So I worked a lot with student nurses, student midwives and then.
Ini ThevathasanGUEST
So either mothers who have medical conditions, mothers with multiple pregnancies, or babies who might have abnormalities or problems with their growth.
Ini ThevathasanGUEST
So I work both publicly at the Royal Women's Hospital, but also have a private practice in my rooms as well and provide sort of high-risk care in both settings.
Ini ThevathasanGUEST
So that's That's sort of my background.
Ini ThevathasanGUEST
And thank you again for having me.
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Ini ThevathasanGUEST
So they get the clear.
Ini ThevathasanGUEST
So for rural patients, they usually have to come down to one of the tertiary centres in Melbourne.
Ini ThevathasanGUEST
So that would be either Monash, the Mercy or the Royal Women's Hospital.
Ini ThevathasanGUEST
And then they will usually have, if they have the laser, then they will have their follow-up usually with one of those tertiary centres until they get the all clear.