Mother and Baby
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At Los Alamos Medical Center, our team utilizes the latest medical advancements to give you peace of mind before, during, and after your pregnancy. The caring and knowledgeable staff of LAMC’s Family Birthing Center and Special Care Nursery are comprised of our Board Certified Neonatologist, Neonatal Nurse Practitioners, and nursing staff. The unit features eight private rooms, including four LDRP (Labor, Delivery, Recovery, Postpartum) rooms that offer a warm, home-like atmosphere.
Next Steps
Additional features of the birthing unit include:
- Family-centered care
- Childbirth education classes and hospital tours
- Dedicated caesarean delivery rooms
- Case management and social services
- Lactation consultant and breastfeeding classes
- Skin-to-skin care (kangaroo care)
- HUGS infant safety system
- Complete discharge education, including infant CPR review to ensure a successful transition from the special care nursery to home
- Overnight transition rooms for parents who need further education and preparation before going home
Family-Centered Birthing
Our birthing center offers individualized care for new mothers and their healthy newborns. Our nurses are trained to meet the needs of these special patients. We understand that birth is a normal process and we encourage mom to keep baby at her bedside, known as rooming-in, to learn how to respond to her baby's needs, establish uninterrupted skin to skin care as soon as her baby is born and to identify feeding cues for establishing breastfeeding or bottle feeding according to mom's decision.
A mother's desire to keep her healthy newborn near her is instinctive. Towards that endeavor we offer Kangaroo Care, a method of holding a baby that involves skin-to-skin contact. Research indicates this is exactly what mom and her baby need. Some of the benefits to the mother include distraction from discomfort, more confidence in caring for her baby, less anxiety and strengthened attachment to her baby which is believed to decrease the incidence of postpartum depression. Some of the benefits to the baby include improved ability to maintain temperature, decreased incidence of low blood sugar, less crying and increased success with breastfeeding which can decrease the chance of the baby developing jaundice.
All of our nurses are trained to assist our new mothers to successfully establish breastfeeding, and should there be a need for more intensive intervention, a certified Lactation specialist is available to assist during the hospital stay and after discharge.
Breast Feeding & Lactation Consultation
Los Alamos Medical Center is proud to support breastfeeding moms in our area – those at work and at home. We are committed to making communities healthier, and breastfeeding education enables us to do this with twice the impact, as it benefits babies and their mothers.