Our Childbirth Center offers many amenities for expectant and new families. We offer low-cost childbirth preparation classes to those delivering here—part of our commitment to healthy, happy moms and babies. Moms can also select delicious, made-to-order meals from our room service menu.
Hendricks Regional Health's Childbirth Center is ranked in the 96th percentile compared to 2,752 other hospitals across the Nation*. Our staff is dedicated to helping you feel comfortable and confident during your 'Baby Journey'. Our Childbirth Center offers many amenities for expectant and new families, all a part of our commitment to healthy, happy moms and babies.
Amenities include:
- Variety of Classes for Labor, Breastfeeding and Infant Care (link to events registration)
- Private Tours are available by appointment (call 317-718-4585)
- Natural Light in all Labor Suites and Postpartum Rooms
- Birthing Balls, peanut balls, showers and whirlpool tubs and many other tools to help with labor positioning and pain
- Laboring moms are encouraged to move and use gravity to help with labor
- Advanced fetal monitoring system used during labor and delivery
- Nitrous Oxide as an alternative to other pain relief options during labor
- 24 hour Anesthesia coverage for epidural & spinal medication administration
- Cesarean delivery suite
- Certified Lactation Specialists for breastfeeding support including classes
- Family Centered Care, including 'rooming in' with infant. Babies stay with their parents, and staff are always available to help you learn how to rest and care for your baby.
- Board Certified Pediatric Hospitalists in the hospital 24 hours a day to assess and care for the medical needs of newborns
- Special Care Nursery for newborns in need of extra monitoring or specialized care
- Additional rooming in options for parents wanting to stay close to a baby that requires a longer stay in the Special Care Nursery
- High-tech infant security system
- A lullaby chime plays in the hospital every time a baby is born
- Delicious, made to order meals from our room service menu
- Our nurses practice evidenced-based care and are involved in education to provide up to date and relevant care for all our patients
- Delayed bathing to help newborns transition after birth and encourage mother-baby bonding.
- Wireless internet connection and flat-panel televisions
*(Source: Center for Medicare and Medicaid approved survey vendor: Press Ganey)
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