Welcome To The Family Birth Center

Every delivery is special at CalvertHealth’s Family Birth Center. If you decide to have your baby at CalvertHealth, you can count on personalized, state-of-the-art care. Our highly skilled physicians and nursing team bring extensive experience to caring for you and your baby. CalvertHealth pediatric hospitalists are on-call 24 hours a day to assist with any newborn needs.

Our goal is to make your hospital stay the wonderful experience it should be. You and your new family can bond in a private comfortable room.

CalvertHealth follows UNICEF guidelines to: “Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding”
http://www.unicef.org/media/95186/file/Ten%20steps%20to%20successful%20breastfeeding%20infographic.pdf

The Ten Step program is a world-wide movement sponsored by the World Health Organization and UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) that encourages breastfeeding exclusively. We encourage exclusive breast milk feeding while you are here with us to help get your baby off to a good start. Providing infants with human milk gives them the most complete nutrition possible. We have lactation services that are available to help you with any nursing issues. Nurturing Necessities, our specialty store for moms and babies, is located on-site and a weekly breastfeeding support group is held on the CalvertHealth campus.

If you choose not to breastfeed or if medical reasons limit your ability to breastfeed then appropriate methods of formula mixing, handling, storage and feeding techniques are provided and reviewed with you prior to discharge.

From childbirth preparation to baby care basics, CalvertHealth offers a variety of classes and programs to support new and expecting parents before you deliver, while you’re in the hospital and after you go home. For a complete listing, click here.