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ENGLISH FOR HEALTH-CARE PROVIDERS
From our private, home-like labour and delivery suits to our skilled and compassionate staff,
everything we do is focused on providing excellent care for you and your baby. Our labour
and delivery suits are spacious and have a family-centered home-like environment.
We provide 24-hour anesthesiology for mothers who wish to have an epidural. Our Pre-
cious Beginnings “Doula” program seeks to nurture the mother and family at the time of
the baby’s birth. “Doula” is a Greek word that refers to a woman experienced in childbirth
who provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support before, during and
just after childbirth. We have experienced doulas on staff to facilitate the birthing experi-
ence. And when your baby is born our entire hospital rejoices. Every birth is announced
with the playing of the Brahms’ lullaby across the public address system as we celebrate
a new life.
Parents can be assured that our level 2 special care nursery has 24-hour neonatology cov-
erage to care for those babies needing extra care and attention. Our especial care nursery
is equipped with a special webcam that allows you to view your baby in real time via the
Internet, day or night. Seeing your baby on the web camera can provide extra confidence
reassurance at those times when you cannot be at your baby’s side. Only Kettering Medical
Center offers a web camera to our special-care families.
After your delivery, you will be taken to a mother-baby unit when the same nurse that cares
for you will also care for your baby.
For breast-feeding mothers, a lactation consultant is available each day. Following your re-
turn home, outpatient visits may be scheduled in the lactation consultant office.
Our excellent care continues even when you and your baby are ready to go home. Ketter-
ing Medical Center is proud to offer our Precious Beginnings home program where newly
discharged mothers and babies are visited at home by a mother-baby nurse. The visit gives
new parents peace of mind of the baby can be checked soon after discharge in the com-
fort of their home. Families tell us this eases the transition from hospital to home, for both
infant and mother.
After the birth of your baby, the online baby gallery gives new moms and dads an oppor-
tunity to share their new addition with family and friends, who can turn post personalized
greetings to your new-born page through our secure website.
Miriam Cartmell:
Many new parents have questions about caring for a new baby. Ketter-
ing Medical Center offers the new parents’ Answer Line to assist the new mom or dad
with questions or concerns that arise after you return home. The answer line is staffed 24
hours each day with registered nurses who specialize in maternal and new-born care. You
can have peace of mind knowing that we are only a phone call away.
Narrator:
We are committed to providing the best childbirth experience possible. Kettering
Medical Center Precious Beginnings. We are here for you every step of the way.
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