Maternity
Your maternity experience is an exciting and extraordinary time. We provide attentive and personalized care throughout your pregnancy to ensure that your delivery is as comfortable and safe as possible. Our goal is to help you enjoy this incredible moment and focus on celebrating the new addition to your family.
You drive all decisions surrounding your labor, delivery and postpartum care. Our experienced and talented labor and delivery physicians are trained in a variety of birthing techniques, and they hold board certifications for Obstetrics & Gynecology and Family Medicine.
We are with you every step of your pregnancy to help answer questions, monitor your progress, and offer childbirth education classes and birth center tours. Some of our prenatal services include:
- Antibody screening.
- Carrier screening.
- Diabetes screening.
- Fetal monitoring.
- Morning sickness treatment.
- Nutrition and food safety counseling.
- Prenatal genetic testing.
- Prenatal visits and routine prenatal care.
- Ultrasounds.
We offer childbirth and lactation classes, where you have the opportunity to meet our staff and delivery teams and learn about the wide array of delivery services we provide. We provide instruction on exercises, breathing techniques and pain management options. Our classes are small, so you receive one-on-one attention and have plenty of opportunities to ask questions.
A safe delivery is our priority; we're there with you every step of the way to ensure that you have a customized birth experience. Whenever possible we keep you and your baby together from the moment of birth to the trip home.
We are proud of our Baby-Friendly USA designation, because it emphasizes the importance of skin-to-skin bonding during the first few minutes of life, encourages breastfeeding as the primary source of nutrition for the newborn, and focuses on 24-hour rooming together for you and your baby, while our care team continually monitor both of you.
We have a dedicated caesarean operating room in our Birthing Center, which increases safe outcomes and allows you to labor, deliver and recover in a single, private and family-friendly space dedicate to maternity care.
We continue to support you after delivery, into your baby's infancy and childhood to help you stay on top of their progress, overall health and general wellness. Our postpartum services include:
- Postpartum care.
- Postpartum contraception.
- Postpartum depression care.
Baby-friendly designation
In 2016 we received the prestigious recognition as a "Baby-Friendly Designated" birth facility. This award is given after completing a rigorous on-site survey and assessment. To learn more about Baby-Friendly USA, please visit babyfriendlyusa.org.
Reviewed 12/15/2022
Pregnancy: How baby develops
MONTH 1
The heart and lungs begin to form. Your baby is just a tiny embryo at this stage.
MONTH 2
All the baby's major body organs are beginning to develop. The ears, fingers and toes are also beginning to form.
At the six-week mark, you may be able to hear the baby's heartbeat during an ultrasound. By the end of the second month, the baby is about an inch long.
MONTH 3
Soft nails are beginning to form on the fingers and toes. Tiny buds have appeared that will later become baby teeth.
By the end of this month, the baby is about 3 inches long and weighs about an ounce.
MONTH 4
The baby moves, kicks, swallows and can hear.
By the end of the fourth month, the baby is around 6 inches long and weighs about 4 ounces.
MONTH 5
The baby now sleeps and wakes at regular intervals, and his or her skin is covered with fine, soft hair.
At the end of this month, the baby is about 10 inches long and weighs around 1 pound.
MONTH 6
At this stage, the lungs still aren't ready for life outside the womb.
By the end of the sixth month, the baby is about 12 inches long.
MONTH 7
Responsive to light and sound, the baby can now open and close his or her eyes. Moms may notice a lot of activity in the womb as the baby kicks and stretches.
MONTH 8
Your baby is gaining weight rapidly.
By the end of the eighth month, the baby is about 14 to 18 inches long and weighs around 4 to 5 pounds.
MONTH 9
Halfway through the month your baby will be full-term. To get ready for birth, the baby will usually turn head down and move down into the pelvic area.
HOW WILL YOU KNOW YOU'RE IN LABOR?
Sources: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; American Pregnancy Association; Office on Women's Health