Labor and delivery
Just as every baby is unique, so is every delivery. As your trusted care partner, we work to provide a personalized birthing experience that begins long before your first contraction and continues well after delivery.
Maternity care center in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Whether this is your first baby or your third, we're here to make your delivery day special.
Our maternity care center serves the Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania region, with 24/7 care by board-certified obstetricians and anesthesiologists, certified nurse midwives, and specially trained labor and delivery nurses. Our Level 3 NICU provides specialized care for premature and high-risk newborns.
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Maternity center services
Our family-centered maternity care center provides a wide range of services and amenities. Our team is here to help prepare you for your childbirth and ensure you and your baby are safe and healthy and have a special, memorable experience. From prenatal to postpartum care, our services include:
Prenatal services
- Maternity classes
- Tours of our maternity unit
- Educational meeting with one of our labor and delivery nurses (for scheduled C-sections)
Board-certified specialists available on-site 24 7
- OB/GYN hospitalists who specialize in vaginal delivers and C-sections
- Certified nurse midwives who specialize in low-intervention deliveries
- Labor and delivery nurses specially trained and certified in fetal heart monitoring
- Anesthesiologists and anesthetists to deliver pain relief options, including epidurals
- Lactation consultants to help you learn to breastfeed, if you wish
- Neonatologists and maternal-fetal specialists available when you or your baby need extra care
Clinical services
- Dedicated operating room for planned and unplanned cesarean sections (C-sections)
- On-site Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for premature and high-risk newborns
- OB emergency room
- Antepartum care for pregnant women who require an inpatient hospital stay prior to birth
- Low-intervention birthing options, such as birthing balls, peanut balls, and wireless fetal monitoring
Facility amenities
- Private comfortable rooms for labor and delivery, with TV and personal restrooms
- Comfortable sleeping arrangements for your partner or support person
- Hospital-wide Wi-Fi
- Secure unit to keep you and your baby safe
- Remote monitoring capabilities for mother and baby
- Newborn photography services through WelcomeNewborn Photography
Postpartum care
Following delivery, you will experience family-centered postpartum care. This means we put your baby at your bedside, 24 hours a day (unless we need to care for them in our NICU). Your partner or designated support person may also stay with you.
Throughout your recovery, your specially trained nurse will be available to provide you with care, support and education. Our method of care enables our nurses to spend more time in your room. This is useful when you need coaching — such as breastfeeding help — encouragement or advice.
Neonatal intensive care
Our 9-bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) provides critical care to newborns who need additional support after birth for illness or because they were born prematurely. Our NICU is equipped with advanced technology and staffed 24/7 by highly trained neonatal specialists who are dedicated to your baby’s health.
Infants treated in our Level III NICU
- Low birth weight, including less than 1,500 grams (3.3 lbs.)
- 28 weeks gestation and greater
- Critically ill, including birth abnormalities, selected structural heart conditions, infections, and a wide range of medical conditions
- Respiratory conditions or in need of respiratory support
- Exposure to opioids
NICU team
Our dedicated NICU team includes:
- Board-certified neonatologists, 24/7 rapidly available
- Neonatal nurse practitioners, in-house 24/7
- Neonatal clinical nurse specialist
- Respiratory therapists
- Physical therapists
- Occupational therapists
- Feeding and swallowing therapists
- Social workers and case management
- Lactation consultants
- Neonatal dietitians
Services and amenities
- Appropriate developmental care for premature babies who need a quiet environment, less light, and gentle stimulation
- Recliner chairs at the bedside for parents
- Quiet nurturing space
- Breast pumps, privacy curtains, and refrigeration for milk storage
- Rooming-in room for parents
- Sensitive care for drug dependent infants and support for moms and families including NAS education
- Access to donor milk
- Special circumstances — We can re-admit a baby after discharge from the hospital to the NICU if your baby is less than 30 days old and without any obvious contagious illness. Candidates for readmission may include management of jaundice, poor feeding and failure to grow.
- Support for immature lungs
Family-centered extended NICU visitation support
Our NICU is a quiet, nurturing space for your family to spend time with your little one. We encourage you to spend plenty of time holding, feeding, and bonding with your baby. You may stay by your baby’s side almost 24 hours a day. We respectfully request no visitors for nursing handoff between 6:45am - 7:45am and 6:45pm - 7:45pm.
We also encourage you to use our NICU Children’s Library to read to your baby and connecting with the occupational therapist to learn swaddle bathing and infant massage.
Restrictions on visitation may be enforced during times of widespread epidemics to protect your newborn and our staff.
Maternity classes and hospital tours
It is natural for expectant parents to have lots of questions before their baby’s arrival. We provide you with the information and training you need to prepare for childbirth and care for your new baby.
Maternity education
- We offer free hospital tours and maternity classes.
- Our maternity classes are on a rotating basis throughout each month and include:
- Baby Basics
- Breastfeeding Basics
- Labor Basics I and II
- Labor Express
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