Preparing for Your Delivery

The Huron Regional Medical Center birthing center team works with parents before, during and after the birth to make the experience a joyous and memorable one. To help you prepare for your new arrival, HRMC offers the following resources:

• Personalized Birthing Plans
• HRMC Prenatal Education Classes
• Prenatal Education

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Labor, Delivery and Postpartum

HRMC has 8 spacious, comfortable and newly remodeled maternity suites – private rooms to help you and your new baby become acquainted in a restful and quiet environment. Each room is equipped with state-of-the-art monitoring capabilities for mother and baby, as well as a television and WiFi access.

Our caring and compassionate nurses are here to support and assist each patient through an individualized birthing process, offering personalized attention and responding to your needs.

The choice of childbirth options includes a variety of services, including:

• Unmedicated labors
• IV Pain relief
• Epidurals
• Intrathecals
• Hydrotherapy: tub, whirlpool, shower

Be sure to discuss alternative pain relief measures with your obstetrics provider. The HRMC maternity team encourages you to outline a birth plan with your physician. HRMC’s nurturing staff is available for as little or as much assistance with your newborn as you desire. If you plan to breastfeed, our trained nurses can assist you with the latest techniques to help you and your baby get a healthy start.

Nursery

The newborn nursery offers Level I nursery care, which allows your newborn to receive, if needed, respiratory assistance such as CPAP, IV fluids and antibiotics, phototherapy for jaundice and weight gain monitoring. All medical and nursing staff are certified in the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) to assure your newborn is provided with quality care.

Our nursery is stocked with modern gowns for baby while staying with us. We also provide muslin swaddle blankets.

You may choose to have your baby with you 24 hours a day or use our nursery at any time. Our HUGs security system provides security measures for your baby’s safety.

Education and Support

HRMC understands that delivering your baby is just the first step. After you give birth, our staff will assist you with training and educational resources on caring for your baby. A few options include:

• CPR and other pertinent topics
• Breastfeeding Watch Dr. Jack Newman’s Visual Guide to Breastfeeding video.
• Baby care basics
• Caring for yourself after a delivery

Other community services may be suggested for you or your baby upon discharge.

After You Go Home

Taking your new baby home is one of the happiest times in a woman’s life. But it also presents both physical and emotional challenges.

• Get as much rest as possible. You may find that all you can do is eat, sleep, and care for your baby, and that is perfectly okay.
• You will have spotting or bleeding, like a menstrual period, off and on for up to six weeks.
• You might also have swelling in your legs and feet, feel constipated, or have menstrual-like cramping.
• Even if you are not breastfeeding, you can have milk leaking from your nipples, and your breasts might feel full, tender, or uncomfortable.
• Follow your doctor’s instructions on how much activity, like climbing stairs or walking, you can do for the next few weeks.
• Doctors usually recommend that you abstain from sexual intercourse for four to six weeks after birth.

In addition to physical changes, you may feel sad or have the “baby blues”. If you are extremely sad or are unable to care for yourself or your baby, you might have a serious condition called postpartum depression.
For more information, visit post-pregnancy health.