Birth Center

There’s no more joyous time than childbirth, but it’s a time that can be full of anxiety. At Family Birthplace, we encourage you to make your birth experience uniquely yours with a personalized birth plan that details everything from your medication guidelines to aromatherapy preferences. Your comfort and privacy are assured as you prepare for delivery in our comfortable suites, and you can rest confidently knowing that you have a dedicated delivery team trained in all eventualities ready to step in at any time.

There’s immediate support for baby, as well, with a Level II Newborn Intensive Care Nursery that can take care of babies born early, as well as those that need a little extra help getting started on life. When delivery is over, we encourage rest and relaxation before you and your baby begin a new life at home. We’ll continue to support you there, as well.

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Our Team

We encourage families to actively participate in planning for your care and decision making.

Please discuss your birthing plans with your physician or midwife and share it with us upon your arrival at the Family Birthplace.

For those times when a higher level of care is needed, we have state-of-the-art equipment and maintain the highest standards, skills and expertise in perinatal services.

Valley View’s Family Birthplace includes a Level II Newborn Intensive Care Nursery and is equipped to take care of babies born as early as eight weeks before their due date. We are also ready to help when term babies need some extra care in the first few days of life.

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Services

• Anesthesia Options
• Childbirth Preparation
• Lactation Consultation

Birth Plans

With so much information available on the internet, cable channels and DVDs, some expectant parents wonder, “Why should I make a birth plan?” We feel that partnering with you and providing education and support is laying the foundation for being a good and attentive parent. Spending structured time to stay healthy and become prepared for your baby is your first responsibility. Even if you plan to use pain medication for your birth, working with our team on a birth plan can provide and support a variety of coping methods, ease discomfort, help you learn about your baby and make a positive transition to parenthood. Ask us more!

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Baby Friendly

Baby-Friendly means doing what’s best for you and your baby.

The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative assists hospitals in giving new mothers the information, confidence, and skills necessary to successfully initiate and continue breastfeeding their babies, or safely feed with formula, and give special recognition to hospitals who are upholding the highest standards of infant feeding care. In cases where patients have a medical indication, or parents have made an informed decision to use formula, the safe preparation and feeding of formula is provided to mothers.

The Family Birthplace at Valley View is proud to be designated a Baby-Friendly facility.

As a Baby-Friendly facility, your newborn baby will be placed on your chest for immediate bonding. This includes skin to skin contact immediately after birth and throughout your baby’s stay.

Skin-to-skin benefits:

• Better breastfeeding
• Helps your baby’s temperature remain normal
• Helps your baby keep normal heart and breathing rates
• Helps your baby’s blood sugar remain normal
• Less stress for you and your baby
• Your baby will cry less

Baby-Friendly at Valley View Hospital means:

• Hospital staff know how to support breastfeeding mothers
• Hospital procedures and practices are supportive of breastfeeding
• The best start for baby for long-term good health

The American Academy of Pediatrics and healthcare providers recommend exclusive breastfeeding for six months, followed by continued breastfeeding as complementary foods are introduced, with breastfeeding continuing for one year or longer.

Breastfeeding benefits compared to formula fed babies:

• Fewer ear infections
• Fewer stomach problems and diarrhea
• Fewer lung infections
• Less risk of diabetes, childhood cancers and obesity
• Less allergies and asthma
• Increased I.Q.

Mother benefits:

• Reduce risk of high blood pressure, breast/ovarian cancer, heart disease, and diabetes
• Strengthens bones
• Lose weight gained during pregnancy

Additional benefits:

• It saves money!
• It’s convenient! Always with you and ready to go
• It’s always ready! Little to pack when you leave home and always the right temperature

Successful breastfeeding begins with:

• Support from hospital staff
• Breastfeeding within one hour after birth
• Babies staying in mother’s room 24 hours a day
• Feeding based on baby’s cues
• limited use of pacifiers until breastfeeding is established
• Breastfeeding support after going home
• Pumping support

Awards

Gold Safe Sleep Champion

Each year, 3,500 babies die in their sleep. These deaths are classified as SUID – Sudden Unexpected Infant Death. Some of these deaths are due to SIDS – Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, the cause of SIDS remains unknown. SIDS is a subcategory of SUID.

Many infant deaths are due to suffocation or strangulation while in unsafe sleep environments.

As a Gold Safe Sleep Champion, recognized by the Cribs for Kids National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program. This award is the highest designation granted by the program.

As a Nationally Certified Gold Safe Sleep Champion Hospital, the highest designation granted by Cribs for Kids National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program, the Family Birthplace at Valley View aims to take an active role in reducing these preventable deaths by prioritizing individualized education for all families and caregivers on infant safe sleep practices. We believe the more we can do to support new families, the better it for babies, lowering their risk of sleep-related death.

During your stay at the Family Birthplace, you can expect the following as part of Valley View’s adherence to safe sleep:

• Placing baby on their back to sleep
• Baby wearing safe sleep swaddle sleep sack
• Baby sleeping in Halo Safe Sleep Crib in room with parents
• Complementary safe sleep sack for each baby to take home
• Education on baby and parents sleeping close, but not co-bedding with the baby

Maternal and Infant Care Quality Champion

Valley View is recognized as a Maternal and Infant Care Quality Champion by the Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative. This designation means that Valley View has access to the most current data, best practices and resources available and is leading the way for the safest, healthiest outcomes for Colorado’s women and infants.

Classes

Childbirth Education – In-Person
Prepare for delivery with a four-hour, in depth look at labor and delivery at Valley View. The following topics will be covered:

• Basics of labor
• Comfort measures
• Pain management options
• Delivery
• Breastfeeding initiation
• Early newborn care

Learn more and register at our events calendar.

Prenatal Pelvic Floor – In-Person
Prepare your pelvic floor for labor, delivery and post-partum at this one-hour, express class. This class is for expecting moms, 28-weeks and over. The following topics will be covered:

• Breathing and pushing techniques
• Using a TENS unit during labor and other labor comfort techniques
• Labor and delivery positioning to help ease labor and prevent post-delivery complications
• Body mechanics to protect your pelvic floor during and after pregnancy (carrying a car seat, carrying your baby, sleeping positions for optimal comfort, and more).

Learn more and register at our events calendar.