Galen’s Labor and Delivery teams are here to help make your birthing experience everything you want it to be. We work closely with you to support your healthcare choices, such as medicated or non-medicated labor and other birthing practices or aids. We strive for a vaginal delivery and only recommend a C-section if your health or your baby’s health is at risk.
Labor and Delivery expectations:
Support for your birth plan, your delivery team will work with you to support your birth plan choices, including:
- Having an medicated or non-medicated labor
- Having a support, family members, or friends present at the time of your child’s birth
- Breastfeeding support
- Skin-to-skin bonding time immediately after delivey
Immediate access to specialty care, mothers who deliver with Galen have healthy pregnancies and uncomplicated deliveries. However, if additional care is required for you or your baby:
- Our High-Risk Obstetrics team specializes in providing the most advanced, nurturing care for complex health problems.
- Our Neonatology team provides word class care for newborn babies with critical or special care needs.
Comfort management during labor available 24 hours a day:
- For women who desire a medicated labor or require a C-section, our obstetric anesthesia service is always available in Labor and Delivery.
