At MoBap our goal is to make you feel like you are the only family in the hospital. So everything we do is driven by a personalized approach. Carpeting, restful lighting and a soft color palate surround you at the MoBap Childbirth Center. We’ve designed it this way so that your experience will feel more comfortable, and less clinical.


Vaginal Deliveries 
 
When you arrive, you'll be assessed to be sure you are in active labor. If so, you and your partner will be escorted to one of our childbirth suites where you will labor and deliver your baby. You can play your music, dim the lights, use a warm water labor tub, shower -- enjoy your experience. Our labor nurses will be there for you, to coach and provide as much, or as little, support as you desire. 

Most women decide in advance whether to have an epidural, or to experience labor naturally without pain medication. Whichever you decide, our staff is here to help you achieve your preference. 

If you choose to have an epidural, we will administer it when you’re ready. Our anesthesiologists are on-site and available, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you chose to deliver without pain medication, we will support your decision. We do this because you and your baby are the center of our world.

Scheduled Cesarean Delivery 

If you are scheduled for a cesarean delivery (c-section), you will first be admitted to a birth suite. There, your labor and delivery nurse will examine and assess you and your baby. To prepare you for the c-section, your nurse will wash your stomach with an antibacterial solution and shave you from just below the belly button to the pubic area.

Also, an anesthesiologist will visit you to discuss your anesthesia options. Cesarean births are usually done with spinal anesthesia, which means you will be awake and alert when your baby is born. If you are having a spinal, you will be moved to the Cesarean birth room about 30 minutes before your delivery time. After you receive your spinal, your nurse will place a catheter (a thin flexible tube) into your bladder to keep it empty.


Scheduled Induction

If you have gone past your due date or you and your baby are ready, your doctor may schedule you for an induction, where you will be given medication to start your labor. On the day of your induction, you are admitted to a birth suite, where your doctor and nurses will administer an IV and connect you to a fetal heart monitor. Then, they will add pitocin – a labor-inducing hormone – into your IV. Your contractions will begin shortly thereafter, sending you into active labor.

Note that unless medically necessary for your health or your baby's health, inductions are not done prior to your 39th week of pregnancy. We follow this policy at MoBap (also recommended by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) for the health of your baby.

Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)

If you have previously had a c-section, but would like to try to have a vaginal delivery, your birth preference is known as a VBAC, or a vaginal birth after cesarean. It gives you a chance to experience a vaginal delivery. VBACs are similar to vaginal deliveries in that you can elect to undergo childbirth with or without an epidural.

Only you and your doctor can decide whether a VBAC is appropriate for you.