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Labor and Delivery Area

This is the area where you will begin your journey to giving birth, in one of our two labor rooms or two birthing rooms. At our nurses station, which is centrally located, you will find state-of-the-art central fetal monitoring equipment. Each room is individually monitored with individual workstations in each room, allowing the nurse to spend more time at the laboring woman's bedside, instead of at the nurses station.

The labor rooms are used for women who are in early labor or having their labor induced. The birthing rooms are for women in active labor. The birthing rooms offer more room for moving about and will accommodate any and all equipment needed for the birth. Rocker-recliners are available, as well as televisions and music systems. The woman stays here through her labor and birth, and recovers for a time until she is ready to move to her post-partum room.

Post-Partum Rooms

After recovering for a short period, the new mother is moved to one of eight post-partum rooms, some of which are semi-private, though nursing staff make every effort to put only one mother in each room. Two rooms are designated for gynecological surgical patients. Your baby may stay with you as much as you desire during the day. During the night, most babies are in the nursery and come to you for feeding, unless you desire otherwise.

Level I Nursery

Most babies stay with their mother in her room throughout the day. Babies who need special observation or care are kept in the nursery so the nursing staff can give the baby more one-on-one attention. Should there be a need to keep your baby in the nursery, you may visit as often as you desire.

 

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