Services
Family Care Center - Birthing Services
The Family Care Center offers many services including Labor and Delivery, a level II Nursery, Mother Baby care in our Post Partum area, and Pediatrics. The Center is staffed with professional Obstetric and Pediatric nurses who combine technology with the professional care that is so important for women and children. Certified instructors offer a broad range of birth education classes and a certified lactation consultant provides assistance to mothers to help ensure a successful breastfeeding experience.
Current Classes with complete descriptions below:
- Big Brother/Big Sister Class
- Birth Preparation Classes in English and Spanish
- Birth Refresher Classes
- Breastfeeding Classes
- Family Care Center Tours
- Operation Timothy (tours and role playing for area schools)
Childbirth Preparation Classes
(Four 2 hour sessions of instruction)
This class is ideally taken during the last two months of pregnancy. The class is $25 for those delivering at Beloit Hospital. A $50 fee will be charged for those delivering at other area hospitals.
Couples will need to come comfortably dressed to do floor exercises and rehearse relaxation techniques. It is recommended to bring two pillows to each class.
The following topics are covered in four sessions:
- Introduction and class goals
- History
- Nutrition, fetal development and minor discomforts
- Exercises, body mechanics and comfort positions
- Breathing and relaxation techniques
- Normal labor
- Back labor
- Coaches role and comfort measures
- Pushing
- Vaginal birth
- Cesarean birth
- Post-partum
- Initial infant procedures
- Pain medications
- Interventions
- Facilitating labor to avoid interventions
- Breastfeeding and bottle feeding basics
- Hospital procedures for the infant
- Newborn characteristics
- Labor rehearsal
- Birth Choices
Other Services