Birthing Center
Following the birth of your baby, you will stay in a comfortable, private, home-like room in Emerson’s Mother-Baby Unit. This is where you will begin getting to know your new baby and start the recovery process. Both you and your baby will have the same nurse attending to your needs, a pairing that will help you become well acquainted with your baby from the beginning.
Breastfeeding
Approximately 84 percent of mothers at the Birthing Center breastfeed their babies. Whether you nurse or bottle feed, we will support whatever option you choose.
If you nurse your baby, you will have a great deal of assistance while at Emerson. The maternity nurses have advanced training to help you find the proper technique for you and your baby and to answer your questions.
Emerson also has full-time certified lactation consultants on staff to assist you while in the hospital and by telephone or appointment once you have returned home. Postpartum nurses are available as well for any feeding issues that may arise.
Newborn Care
While in the Mother-Baby Unit, the maternity nurses will teach you the most up-to-date information you need to know for your baby, such as the safest sleep positions, holding, diapering, dressing, bathing and more.
Emerson has in-house board-certified pediatricians available 24 hours a day to care for your baby while you are recovering in Emerson’s postpartum unit. All babies are given a thorough medical exam, which includes a hearing screening, jaundice check, and newborn metabolic screening.