About Mother Baby Care Center

At the Mother Baby Care Center, we support your entire journey into parenthood and strive to resolve any concerns or anxiety you may have about giving birth and being a parent. Our goal is to provide you and your family the best care and services for a safe birth and a healthy baby.

What Makes Us Different

Family-Centered Maternity Care
Baptist Hospital’s Family-Centered Maternity Care is an innovative care model that focuses on the priorities and needs of mother, baby and family. Mothers and babies are cared for as a “couplet” by the same nurse, in the mother’s room, to facilitate parenting skills and to promote family bonding.

At delivery, we focus on tailoring your experience to meet your specific needs, and coach you and the family through the entire birthing experience. Right after delivery, baby remains with mom and dad during those first few precious moments of life while newborn care is provided right at mom’s bedside.

During the hospital stay, mom and new baby will be cared for by their personal nurse. This type of nursing care supports and engages the entire family and facilitates enhanced education in areas such as understanding baby’s needs, feeding, sleeping, soothing and nurturing. The family-centered maternity care approach to childbirth enables new parents to be more confident in their parenting skills.

The birth of a baby represents the birth of a family as well. Family members are all forming a new relationship with new responsibilities to each other and to the baby. Family-centered care recognizes the importance of these new relationships and responsibilities. The goal of family-centered care is to obtain the best possible healthy outcome for all members of the family, both individually and as a group.

Rooming-In
Through our Family-Centered Maternity Care approach, we encourage families to bond with their babies. Except for brief medical or nursing procedures, we support the growing evidence in research that mom and baby will be healthier by practicing 24 hour rooming-in as long as mom and baby are well. Babies who room-in experience a more homelike environment at night. It is quieter and darker in your room than in the nursery, which may ease the transition to day/night routines when you and baby return home. Your baby will also enjoy being the only baby in the room rather than one of several. During this time you will also be visited by a professional photographer to see if you would like a picture to be taken of your baby to be posted on our online web nursery (completely optional). The web nursery is a great way for your out-of-town friends and family to see your new bundle of joy.

 

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