Birthing

Center


One of the most important decisions you’ll make is where to bring your baby into the world. Give your new baby the best “birth day” gift — with expert, family-centered care within our modern, mom-focused Birthing Center.

Take a virtual walkthrough of the VMH Birthing Center

Our Amenities & Services

  • A warm, homelike setting for labor, delivery and recovery
  • Comfortable, private postpartum suites
  • Expanded dietary options, with room service and a personal in-room refrigerator
  • The latest technology tucked away and ready at a moment’s notice
  • Private, family-friendly birthing suites
  • Plenty of privacy and bonding time with your new baby
  • A welcoming environment for visiting family members and friends
  • A specially planned celebration dinner for two in your room
  • Certified lactation educators for moms interested in breastfeeding
  • Certified child-safety seat technicians help you correctly install and use an infant car seat

A Personalized Birth Experience

VMH offers a range of services and options to ensure individualized care for you and your baby. Before your little one arrives, you can talk about your preferences with your provider or a Birthing Center staff member, attend a one-on-one childbirth education and breastfeeding session to learn what happens physically and emotionally before, during and after labor, and so much more. This may include:

  • Touring the Birthing Center
  • Learning about labor relaxation, pain and labor management techniques
  • Discussing delivery options such as vaginal birth, Cesarean and underwater delivery in the water birth tub
  • Calling anytime with questions about you or your baby after you go home
  • Using our pre-admission option for fewer last-minute details when you arrive at the hospital to deliver

 

Birthing Options

VMH offers a traditional birthing experience as well as alternative birthing options. We strive to meet your needs while keeping you and your baby’s safety our number one priority. These alternative options are available to complement your birth plan, if you so choose:

Certified nurse-midwives provide obstetric care that honors the natural process of birth, using medical interventions only if needed. Midwives monitor your health and the health of your baby. Gundersen Viroqua Clinic certified nurse-midwives offer massage, acupuncture and water birth for labor and delivery. They can also administer pain medication or epidurals when appropriate, with advanced care readily available if ever necessary.

Pregnant women have been drawn to water to soothe aches and pains for centuries. In recent decades, this ancient tradition has been updated and water birth is used in hospitals all over the country. Vernon Memorial Hospital and Gundersen-Viroqua Clinic providers have been offering water birth for years, and dozens of babies have been born underwater in our Birthing Center! Water birth helps with back-labor, promotes relaxation and lets women move fluidly and naturally in the birthing tub. And for babies, the calming water gives them time to become accustomed to being born.

Through the Safe Place for Newborns program, Vernon Memorial Healthcare offers confidential, protective shelter, medical care and treatment to newborns whose parents are unable to care for them and would like to surrender them to the county. 

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