Family planning services in Carindale, planned with you.

Good family planning is about timing as much as health. Our family planning services in Carindale help you map out when to stop contraception, what to do in the three months before trying, and how to space pregnancies if you’re hoping for more than one child. You’ll leave with a simple plan built around your life, not a generic checklist.

Your GP looks at the whole picture: your cycle, your health, your partner’s health and any medications or conditions that could affect pregnancy. If you’ve recently had a baby, we can also talk about the ideal gap before your next pregnancy and which contraception suits you in the meantime.

In short: Carindale Doctors provides family planning services inside Westfield Carindale, including a pre-conception timeline, contraception changes, partner health checks and advice on spacing pregnancies. Once you’re pregnant, your GP confirms it and can provide shared care with your hospital. Medicare rebates apply where eligible.

• A personal three-month pre-conception plan
• Advice on when and how to stop contraception
• Partner health and lifestyle review
• Spacing advice between pregnancies
• Pregnancy confirmation when the time comes
• Shared antenatal care with your chosen hospital

These are some of the planning challenges we help patients work through:

• Irregular cycles: making it hard to know when you're most fertile.
• Short gaps between babies: wanting to know if your body has had enough time to recover.
• Mixed feelings: one partner ready and the other unsure, with time to talk it through.
• Health changes: a new diagnosis or medication that needs reviewing before pregnancy.

Health guidelines generally suggest waiting around 18 months between giving birth and conceiving again, but your GP will tailor advice to you.

Our approach is straightforward and personal:

• Step 1, your goals: tell us when you'd like to start trying and any concerns you have.
• Step 2, your timeline: we map out what to do and when, from supplements to stopping contraception.
• Step 3, your checks: blood tests, vaccines and partner health are sorted before you start.
• Step 4, your pregnancy: when you're expecting, we confirm it and coordinate shared care.

Carindale’s mix of established family homes, newer townhouses and green spaces like Minnippi Parklands and the Carindale Recreation Reserve makes it a natural place to raise children. Our clinic is right in the middle of it all, inside Westfield Carindale on Level 1, next to Priceline.

Patients also visit us from neighbouring Carina Heights, Belmont, Tingalpa and Mansfield. With centre parking, lift access and the bus interchange at the centre, getting here is easy.

• Westfield Carindale, Level 1, next to Priceline
• Close to Minnippi Parklands and Bulimba Creek
• Centre parking and public transport at the door
• Welcoming patients from Tingalpa and Carina Heights