Obstetrics
Emory Women's Care offers a comprehensive obstetrical program. Our obstetrical services include:
- Highly skilled physicians
- Maternal-fetal medicine specialists for high risk pregnancies
- Complete, state-of-the-art maternity services at Emory University Hospital Midtown
- Obstetrics Rapid Response Team — we have a physician available in the hospital 24 hours a day/7 days a week to care for you during your labor and delivery. Our team works in 12 hour shifts to ensure the safety of you and your baby.
- Located on the third level of Emory University Hospital Midtown, the birthing center includes 11 labor and delivery rooms, 36 mother-baby suites, and general and special care nurseries — all located on one floor. In a soothing, home-like setting, parents receive expert attention coupled with a caring atmosphere that makes their experience of bringing life into the world extra special.
- This Center is specifically designed to uphold and carry out our philosophy of developmentally supportive care, a highly specialized and nurturing care that encourages family involvement and ensures the best development of infants. They were the first to bring this philosophy, originally developed for premature infants, to the south. Today, they apply that same special care to all of the newborns.
Maternity Services at Emory University Hospital Midtown
For the past 100 years, our physicians and nurses have helped bring healthy and premature infants into the world. The use of "mother-baby" suites at Emory University Hospital Midtown exemplifies developmentally supportive care. From birth, newborns are placed in the same room as their mothers and fathers so they can immediately begin to bond.
Services in our Maternity Center include:
- Spacious labor, delivery and recovery rooms
- Level III neonatal intensive care nursery, featuring developmental care concepts
- Board certified breast-feeding (lactation specialists
- Unlimited visitation for father or support person in addition to grandparent and sibling visitation
- Complete perinatal education programs
Call 404-778-3401 to make an appointment.
