Here with you for precious new beginnings

Labor and Delivery

The Women and Infants Center at St. Joseph’s Hospital provides quality care to pregnant women and their families throughout the birthing process. Our anesthesia providers are available 24 hours a day to provide epidural placement and other pain management, as needed. We now have PCEA pumps, which are patient controlled epidurals – a method of pain control supports the mother’s desire to be involved in the management of her pain during labor.   

A new hydrotherapy tub is also available for mothers-to-be, (who meet safety guidelines), as a pain relief alternative to epidural treatment. Upon request, we can provide music to help with relaxation.

Our Women and Infants Center also has birthing balls, squat bars and our nurses can recommend techniques to help laboring moms with pain relief.

Critical Care for Special Situations

State-of-the-art and ready for anything, the Women and Infants Center offers mother and baby:

• Neonatal Nurse Practitioners onsite 24/7 with special training in resuscitation and care of high-risk infants.

• Immediate, real-time ultrasounds and consultations with neonatologists through telemedicine technology

• Advanced ultrasound evaluation and continuous monitoring during labor.

• 24-hour consultation service with expert perinatologists

• Level II nursery for:

  • Moderate-risk newborns who don’t require intensive care

  • Infants with low birth weight or mild to moderate respiratory distress at birth

  • Babies transferred from Level III (Tertiary Care) facilities

Should the need arise, Level II nursery staff are trained to stabilize infants who need to be transferred to a tertiary care hospital. Air transport teams are a telephone call away; the Women and Infants Center is 15 minutes away from these tertiary care hospitals via helicopter.