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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

Labor & Delivery Tour

Labor & Delivery unit tour at Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center

Our Labor and delivery Locations

Currently Viewing:

Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center
4600 Spotsylvania Pkwy
Fredericksburg, VA 22408
 (540) 498 - 4000

Currently Viewing:

Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center
4600 Spotsylvania Pkwy
Fredericksburg, VA 22408
 (540) 498 - 4000
Henrico Doctors' Hospital
1602 Skipwith Rd
Richmond, VA 23229
 (804) 289 - 4500

42.5 miles

Chippenham Hospital
7101 Jahnke Rd
Richmond, VA 23225
 (804) 483 - 0000

48.7 miles

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