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The Birthing Center at Palos

Families delivering at Palos Community Hospital experience single-room maternity care. This means that labor, delivery, recovery and the postpartum stay all take place in the same private room. Single-room maternity care offers the comfort of home combined with the safety and security of state-of-the-art medical equipment, designed to help you and your family relax in a private setting.

From the moment your baby is born, you’ll have the opportunity to bond and form a close family connection. While you’re in our care, your infant remains with you for virtually the entire stay. Should you need rest, your baby may be cared for by our compassionate staff in the nursery.

Birthing Center

Your stay takes place in a room that is designed with the equipment and technology necessary to meet the various needs of the birthing process. Other equipment and personnel are brought to your room as needed. Our Birthing Center features:

  • Multi-position birthing beds
  • State-of-the-art monitoring technologies
  • In-room infant care
  • Lactation education & instruction
  • Comfortable rooms with rocking chairs & chair bed
  • Rooms include TV & telephone

Schedule a Birthing Center Tour

For more information or to schedule a tour of Palos Community Hospital’s Birthing Center, call the Physician Referral and Community Education Call Center at (708) 226-2300.

Visiting Hours

Visiting During Labor and Birth

Your primary support person and your baby’s father and siblings may be present during labor and birth. Siblings attending the birth must be accompanied by an adult who is neither the father nor the primary support person. Other family members may wait in the Family Lounge.

Visiting Beginning Two Hours After Birth

Fathers

Fathers may visit 24 hours a day. Each father will receive an identification band that matches their baby's.

Grandparents & Siblings

Grandparents and siblings of the newborn may visit any time in the first two hours after delivery and between 10 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. during the remainder of the post-partum stay. Grandparents and siblings of the newborn will receive identification bands to wear.

Other Family and Friends

Other family and friends may wait in the Family Lounge and visit two at a time from 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Other family and friends must be at least 12 years old and should obtain a visitor pass from the front lobby.

Our Care Team

At Palos, we believe in mother-baby nursing care, in which you and your baby receive care from the same registered nurse. Our nurses are experienced in all aspects of labor support, ranging from epidural anesthesia to natural childbirth, and have been extensively educated in the care of both mother and baby through all phases of the birth process.

The registered nurses who staff our Lactation Center are all International Board Certified Lactation Consultants, and they provide professional and personalized education, support, and ongoing assistance to help you establish and maintain a successful nursing relationship.

Education

Family-Centered Maternity Education

Palos Community Hospital offers family and maternity care education for before, during and after the birthing stay. Our family-centered maternity education program is designed to ensure that your birth experience is a family event. Classes include:

  • Prepared Childbirth,
  • Infant/Child/Adult CPR,
  • Big Brother/Big Sister,
  • The Joy of Grandparenting,
  • Unit tours and more.

For more information, visit our Classes and Events, or call our Physician Referral and Community Education Call Center between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. at (708) 226-2300.

Lactation Services 

Families also can access personalized bedside instruction and on-unit group classes. For mothers who choose to breastfeed their babies, we offer daily Lactation Services provided by certified lactation consultants. After you and your baby go home, your lactation consultant will call within one week to make sure breastfeeding is going smoothly.

Nursing Mom's Network

The Nursing Mom's Network provides ongoing support for those learning to breastfeed. For information about the Nursing Mom's Network or other lactation services, call (708) 923-5758.