Your Partner Through Pregnancy
We're your partner on your journey of pregnancy and parenthood, providing guidance and resources to help you welcome your new baby. All the way through your pregnancy to the years after, you can count on our expert providers to be there for you and your loved ones.
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Childbirth & Parenting Classes
- Our childbirth education program is here to get you and your new family off to the best start possible and continue living well long after your baby is born.
Birth Preference Worksheet
Each birth, and each family, is unique...so it's important for us to know you and learn your birth experience preferences.
Download and complete the Welcoming Baby Birth Preference worksheet and review it with your provider at your next appointment.
During labor, your nurse will review it with you and will make every effort to incorporate your wishes without compromising our goal of absolute safety for you and your baby.
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Team Birth Project
The Team Birth Project's goal is to promote shared decision making and health equity. Every person deserves a voice in their care when having a baby. TeamBirth supports open communication among patients, their support people, and clinicians during birth. Through structured huddles and a shared planning board, TeamBirth empowers everyone to reach decisions together. The result is more dignified, respectful care that gives patients the role that they want.
A key component of the program is a planning board, available in every labor and birth suite. This ongoing and evolving board tracks the birthing persons intended birth plan and is a reference as the family and medical team members discuss care decisions during labor and birth.
The Family Maternity Center is pleased to be one of four hospitals nationwide partnering with Ariadne Labs in the Team Birth Project. This is a joint venture of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Blue Band Initiative
EvergreenHealth participates in a crucial and potentially life-saving effort called The Blue Band Initiative. During pregnancy evaluations, EvergreenHealth physicians and midwives will determine if you or a loved one are experiencing or at risk of preeclampsia, a hypertensive disorder that occurs only during pregnancy and the postpartum period, affecting both the birthing person and the unborn baby. Affecting 5-8% of all pregnancies, it is a rapidly progressive condition characterized by high blood pressure and often protein in the urine. Early recognition of preeclampsia signs and symptoms can save the birthing person's life.
As part of the Blue Band Initiative, EvergreenHealth clinicians will provide a blue band for those at high-risk of preeclampsia to alert emergency care teams and other health care providers of their risk level.
EvergreenHealth adopted the Blue Band Initiative in 2017, becoming the first hospital in Washington state to do so. Recently, EvergreenHealth expanded care for Blue Band patients by developing an expansive education packet, which includes information and resources accessible from home. This packet also provides a place to document medications, blood pressure readings, and emergency contact details.
Maternity Care Videos
You're bound to have a lot of questions about your pregnancy and new baby, so we've created videos to help you on your journey to parenthood.
Our physicians, midwives, nurses and anesthesiologists will provide general information. To answer questions regarding your specific medical needs, please contact your provider.
Labor and Pain Management
Baby Care
Breastfeeding
Our thanks to Stanford Medicine and the Newborn Nursery at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital for these videos:
Controlling and Reducing Pain
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