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Maternity Department - Dignity Health Chandler Regional Medical Center - Chandler is dedicated to delivering high quality, compassionate care to Chandler, AZ and nearby communities. Visit us at 1955 W Frye Rd, Chandler, AZ or call (480) 728-5414 for more information.
Childbirth classes offer your partner or labor coach the chance to understand childbirth too as well as learn how to support you during labor and discuss options for handling pain.
Maternity online pre-registration is where you turn over certain information about you, your pregnancy, and your insurance or payment information to the hospital, prior to your labor.
Find an OB that is right in terms of your wants and needs, taking into consideration your insurance coverage, your health history, and the type of birth you want. It is important that the OB you choose is someone with whom you feel comfortable with.
Link: Find and OB
Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) An intensive care unit containing specialized equipment to treat and care for premature or critically ill newborn babies.
Genetic carrier testing is a type of genetic test that can tell you whether you carry a gene for certain genetic disorders. It is done before or during pregnancy and it allows you to find out your chances of having a child with a genetic disorder.
Link: Genetic Carrier Testing
Prenatal diagnosis is the diagnosis of a problem with the developing baby prior to birth. There are two primary methods of prenatal testing that can provide a prenatal diagnosis. These include amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling (CVS).
Link: Prenatal Diagnosis
Lactation describes the secretion of milk from the mammary glands and the period of time that a mother lactates to breastfeed her young. The process naturally occurs with all post-pregnancy female mammals.
Skin-to-skin bonding is the practice where a baby is dried and laid directly on their mother's bare chest after birth, both of them covered in a warm blanket and left for at least an hour or until after the first feed.
Link: Skin to Skin Bonding
Newborn screening refers to a set of special tests, including blood, hearing, and heart screening, done to infants, usually before they leave the hospital to check for any serious health disorders.
Link: Newborn Screening
Link: Preparing for Baby
Your decision to donate umbilical cord, which is full of blood-forming cells, may potentially save the life of someone who has a life-threatening disease.
Link: Umbilical Cord Donation
Dignity Health's My Baby app is a pregnancy app that not only helps women learn about pregnancy and childbirth and track the symptoms and milestones in their pregnancy, but also allows them to personalize it to their unique needs.
Link: My Baby App
A birth center is a diagnostic and treatment center organized to provide care to low-risk patients during pregnancy, labor and delivery.
Link: Birth Center Tour
Postpartum care refers to the first six weeks after childbirth. It is a period of adjustment and healing for mothers. During these weeks, you'll bond with your baby and have a post-delivery checkups with your doctor.
Link: Postpartum Care
Antepartum care is a type of preventive maternal fetal healthcare and is provided shortly before childbirth. It is provided in the form of medical checkups, consisting of recommendations on managing a healthy lifestyle and the provision of medical information.
Link: Antepartum Care
A labor, delivery, and recovery room is the type of room that some hospitals and almost all birth centers use for their care. Once you are placed in a room, this is the room that you will use for your labor, birth, and recovery.
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