Labor and delivery
Just as every baby is unique, so is every delivery. As your trusted care partner, we work to provide a personalized birthing experience that begins long before your first contraction and continues well after delivery.
Birthing center in Decatur, Texas
Welcoming a new baby to your family can be exciting, be it your first child or your next. We're happy to share in your experience.
Our maternity team is ready for your labor and delivery at Medical City Decatur, a campus of Medical City Denton, where we take care of you and your baby from arrival until discharge. Our focus is giving you a safe and memorable stay.
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Our birthing center
During delivery, we focus on your and your baby's health. Our sensitive team oversees all aspects of your care, such as birth preparation, delivery day, postpartum support and newborn care.
Labor and delivery services
We share your joy as you welcome a new little one to your family. Essential to women's care, our maternity program offers specialists who care for all stages of your delivery. Your care team may include:
- Lactation consultants
- Obstetricians
- Obstetric nurse practitioners
- Respiratory specialists
- Neonatalogists (infant care doctors)
- Pediatric hospitalists
Maternity services and amenities
Our birthing center offers many program features designed to give you a comfortable delivery and help you transition home with your new baby. We provide maternity suites with private bathrooms, TVs, wireless internet, sleeper sofa and phone.
Additionally, you will have access to education and family counseling to help you and your family care for your infant. Our program includes:
- Breastfeeding support
- Heatstroke prevention
- Infant security and 24/7 monitoring
- Lactation services
- Post-birth complication awareness
- Virtual prenatal and newborn education
NICU services
Some infants need additional support after they're born. If that is your experience, our neonatologists and pediatric hospitalists oversee your child's care around the clock in our Level I neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), as designated by the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Should your baby need more advanced care, the pediatric hospitalists have relationships with Cook CMC and Alliance neonatalogy for consultation and transfer.
Postpartum depression services
The birth of a little one can trigger a mix of emotions including excitement, glee, anxiety and sometimes even depression. If symptoms persist for more than two weeks, it may be postpartum depression. Postpartum depression is not a sign of weakness, but it is serious and should not be ignored.
You should seek immediate medical attention if you find yourself experiencing symptoms, including:
- Difficulty bonding with your newborn
- Feelings of hopelessness, worthlessness or inadequacy
- Lack of appetite or overeating
- Loss of energy, fatigue or insomnia
- Severe anxiety
- Severe mood swings or excessive crying
- Thoughts of suicide or death
- Withdrawal from loved ones