Deaconess Memorial Medical Center Labor and Delivery
Deaconess Memorial Medical Center's Women's Center, located in the Mary Potter Pavilion, is a full-service labor and delivery center ready to provide you and your newborn with compassionate care. Our facility includes labor, delivery, and recovery, post-partum, and triage rooms and a cesarean section suite.
Preparing for the Baby
Bringing a baby into your home is both exciting and somewhat intimidating. There’s a lot to learn when it comes to caring for babies, and it can be difficult figuring out where to start. Our knowledgeable team is here to help with all of your maternity questions. We offer several classes covering childbirth, parenting, breastfeeding, and more at no charge to our patients, including
- Baby Behavior
- Breastfeeding: Getting Started Class
- Check-In Time
- Fertility Care Program
- Preparation for Childbirth
- Wednesday Weight Checks for Baby
For more information about these classes or to register, please click here
Your Stay
When you arrive, our staff and anesthesia department are fully prepared to offer you a variety of pain relief options based on your preference. Our maternity staff will assist you during labor with positioning using Spinning Babies © maneuvers to help ensure your baby will be the best possible position for childbirth. Immediately following birth your baby will be placed on your chest for some special skin to skin time while your support person/partner cuts the cord after delayed cord clamping.
You will spend the rest of your stay in your private maternity room. In these spacious, home-feel rooms, your baby will be kept with you in your room as much you want. In the case you would like to shower or take a nap, our staff will gladly watch your newborn in our newborn nursery. If your baby needs the extra support of our Level II Nursery, you will be able to visit your little one's bedside routinely until he/she is ready to move to out to a regular room.
Visitation
During labor and delivery, two banded visitors - age 12 or older - may visit without restriction. One support person may spend the night on Postpartum on the hide-a-bed provided in each room.
After delivery, unrestricted visitation hours on postpartum are 10:00 am - 12:00 pm and 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm daily. Siblings of the newborn are unrestricted during these hours; otherwise, all visitors must be age 12 and healthy.
