Jefferson Healthcare offers four attractive and spacious birthing suites with spectacular views of mountains and water. They are located in an outstanding medical facility that provides all the modern technology in a warm, caring, and welcoming environment. Our families love the individualized attention, the private rooms, and the family-centered nursing staff.

Our birthing suites have many comforts of home—refrigerators, televisions, VCR/DVD players, CD players, birthing tubs, and large private showers. Your partner or spouse is encouraged to stay with you throughout your labor and delivery. Your baby will room in with you, and siblings are always welcome when accompanied by an adult.

Highly Trained Nurses and Physicians

All of our nurses are highly qualified labor and delivery nurses who stay abreast of the latest approaches and birthing technology through continuing education and training. They all have been trained as doulas and have specific expertise in labor coaching and comfort measures. Some have received additional training as midwives, and others are lactation consultants or childbirth educators.

Our knowledgeable physicians have been trained in large urban centers and are highly capable of doing medical interventions, including cesarean section, should it become necessary. They bring a flexible and holistic perspective to maternal and infant care, helping you to have the type of delivery assistance you desire. These doctors spend a great deal of time with their patients during labor. This is one reason why our rate of primary C-sections is about half the national average.

Technology

Jefferson Healthcare provides a full range of prenatal testing services that enable your physician to evaluate your baby’s health before delivery. We also have all the necessary practitioners and equipment to stabilize the mother and baby in the event of an emergency situation.

Sometimes babies need a little extra help for conditions such as jaundice following their births. Jefferson Healthcare provides phototherapy through overhead lights and Wallaby blankets so that mothers can hold and feed their babies while they are being treated for jaundice.

Helping Make Your Labor Easier

In addition to your own nurse who will help you through labor, Jefferson Healthcare’s Family Birth Center provides:

• massage therapy;
• Jacuzzi and birthing tub for hydrotherapy;
• telemetric fetal monitoring, so that you can walk and have a high level of mobility during fetal monitoring; and
• nurse anesthetists fully trained in pain management approaches.

Excellent Nurse-to-Patient Ratio

Because of Jefferson Healthcare’s small size, we provide much more personalized attention than larger hospitals. In most cases, we have a one-to-one ratio of nurses with you throughout labor, birth, and postpartum care.

Modern Security Measures

Our Family Birth Center is a locked unit to provide you and your baby with complete security. Your visitors—always welcome from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.—are greeted by our staff and guided to your room.

Childbirth Classes to Help You Prepare

Jefferson Healthcare and Jefferson County Public Health partner to conduct creative and innovative childbirth classes. During this seven-week Prepared Childbirth Education course, you and your birth partner will learn everything you need to know to facilitate a successful labor and birth.

Help With Your Newborn

Our nurses and lactation consultants are all trained in one-to-one postpartum and newborn care. They can help you learn bathing, swaddling, and comforting techniques as well as how to recognize your baby’s cues and states of awareness. You also will receive encouragement and support in your feeding preferences. You go home feeling confident and fully prepared to take excellent care of your new baby.

After You Go Home

We’ll still be in touch. Our nurses will check in with you to see how things are going with you and your baby, to answer any questions, or to provide any referrals you may need. From your first thought about labor and delivery through those early weeks at home with your newborn, the caring staff at Jefferson Healthcare Family Birth Center is here to make the miracle of birth a wonderful, healthy experience for you and your family.

Location/directions

The Family Birth Center is located on the third floor of the hospital.

Preadmission

Once you begin labor, you want to be free to focus on the birth of your baby. That’s why our preadmission process is so helpful. Well before your baby’s due date, you are invited to take advantage of our complimentary Baby Steps program. This includes a tour of the Family Birth Center, filling out admission paperwork, and an opportunity to spend time with one of our birth nurses, to ask questions and discuss your birth plans.

Contact Information

To arrange for a tour or to preregister through our Baby Steps program, call 360-385-2200, ext. 3600.