Labor and delivery

Our Women’s Center is newly refurbished to make your maternity stay as comfortable as possible. Our talented team of OBGYNs, nurse midwives, nurses and support staff provide you and your baby with high quality care in a secure environment.

For your convenience, you may preregister online for your maternity stay. Registering in advance can save you time on the big day.

At our Women's Center, our goal is to provide you with a comfortable and family-centered labor and delivery experience. To do that, our labor and delivery unit features:

• OBGYN on-site 24/7 for any emergencies until your provider arrives
• 24/7 visiting hours in the labor and delivery unit
• Birthing suites equipped for a number of labor and birthing options, including rooms with whirlpool tubs
• Comfortable accommodations for your support person, including meals during labor, so they never have to leave your side
• Accommodations for your support person in the operating room, in the case of a planned or unplanned C-section
• Slushies (which taste better than plain ice during labor) available for you and your family
• Free Wi-Fi, cable television, and new-release movie channels

Personalized labor and delivery amenities

We offer customizable maternity amenities, so you can create the memory of a lifetime. These offerings include:

Family-centered amenities

• Flexible visiting hours
• In-room accommodations for support person

Childbirth methods

• C-section
• Medicated birth, such as with an epidural
• Natural birth
• Vaginal birth
• Vaginal birth after C-section (VBAC)

Pain relief methods

• Breathing techniques
• Cold therapy
• Distraction
• Hot therapy
• IV pain control
• Meditation
• Standard epidural

Labor and delivery options

• Doulas welcome
• Filming and photography welcome
• Lighting preferences
• Music welcome
• Skin-to-skin contact (even after C-section)
• Umbilical cord cutting

Infant care amenities and options

• Advanced infant security
• Baby can room-in or sleep in the nursery
• Formula welcome
• Lactation support available
• Pacifiers welcome

In-room amenities

• Breast pump
• Celebratory meal
• Gifts

Other resources

• Adoption support
• Surrogacy support

Should your baby need extra monitoring after delivery, our Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is staffed 24/7 with a highly specialized neonatal team. As a Level III NICU, our neonatal team has the resources, expertise and equipment to provide advanced care for premature and ill newborns who need additional support after birth.

We also provide live webcam access while your baby is in the NICU. This allows you to conveniently and securely see your infant from any smartphone, tablet or computer 24/7.

After you give birth, we continue to provide personalized postpartum care and support to you and your baby. We also provide several services and amenities during your postpartum stay, including:

• Skin-to-skin contact prioritized immediately following birth and throughout your hospital stay
• Private and spacious postpartum suites that provide accommodations for your partner and plenty of room for your baby to stay with you
• Breastfeeding support from certified lactation consultants
• Locked-down unit with infant security system to protect your baby throughout your hospital stay
• New baby nursery for those times you need to care for yourself or get a little sleep
• New mother’s celebration feast and special gifts for you and your baby
• Custom flavored soda options

Sometimes, premature babies (also called preemies), like those in our Level III NICU, depend on donated breast milk to thrive when their mother's milk is not available. As a regional breast milk donation center, we accept breast milk donations from women who have saved breast milk or are currently breastfeeding.

Why donate breast milk?

Feeding preemies breast milk is the gold standard of care. Breast milk has many benefits, including reducing the risk of infections. One ounce of your breast milk can feed a micro preemie for an entire day—literally saving their life.

Do I qualify to donate breast milk?

Taking care of your baby is your first priority. Once you have established your milk supply and your own baby's needs, becoming a donor may be an option for you. You may be able to donate your extra breast milk if the following apply to you:

• You are in generally good health.
• You are a non-smoker.
• You are taking no medications on a regular basis.

How do I become a donor?

• Call (801) 714-6605 for a referral to the milk bank.
• Trained lactation consultants will do a short phone pre-screening.
• You will be sent a comprehensive screening form to fill out and send back.
• Next, a lactation consultant will call you to set up a blood test at Timpanogos Regional Hospital, at no cost to you.
• Once you sign the donor consent form and your doctor signs the medical release form, you are ready to donate milk.
• You will be provided with containers to store your milk.
• You then drop off your milk at our hospital.

What happens after breast milk is donated?

• The milk is received and stored in large freezers maintained at -20 C or colder.
• The milk is pooled together into large flasks and then poured into sanitized glass bottled.
• The bottles are placed in a pasteurizer, brought to 62.5 C, and pasteurized for 30 minutes.
• The bottles are cooled immediately, labeled and placed in freezers.
• A small sample of the milk is analyzed to assess fats, proteins and lactose.
• A sample from each batch is sent to the lab to be tested for any bacterial growth.
• Once approved, the milk is sent coast to coast to babies in hospitals and homes.

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