 | Labor and Delivery (1CM)
Each year, more than 2,500 babies are born at the Regions Birth Center. Nurses on the Labor and Delivery unit work closely with OB/GYN physicians, certified nurse midwives, family practice MDs, resident physicians and trained doulas (when requested) to care for patients typically low- and high-risk mothers of 32+ weeks gestation. Regions serves a culturally diverse population, including Hispanic, Afro-American, Hmong, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Somali, East African and Caucasian patients.
The caregiver team in labor and delivery provides a full range of services to antepartal, intrapartal, immediate postpartum patients (and their babies) and critical postpartum patients. Nurses may care for maternity patients including any condition or complications that affect the ongoing pregnancy such as diabetes, hyperemesis, pre-eclampsia, HELLP syndrome and pre-term labor. Patients with primary conditions unrelated to pregnancy are not admitted to labor and delivery, but to the appropriate care unit.
Labor and delivery nurses are trained in electronic fetal monitoring, circulating in the cesarean/postpartum tubal operating room (OR) and post-anesthesia OB/OR recovery. Cesareans are available 24/7. There is currently one OR (a second will be completed in May 2007) and two post-anesthesia recovery rooms in the labor and delivery department.
Mothers and babies are kept together in the labor and delivery unit during the recovery phase and are then transferred to the postpartum area as a family unit.
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