Giving Birth at Mount Sinai West A planning guide to a rewarding pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum experience Useful Phone Numbers Table of Contents Parent Family Education Program: Chapter 1. Administrative Procedures 15 Considerations in Early Pregnancy 2 212-523-6222 Obtaining a Private Postpartum Summary of Self-Care During Pregnancy 2 Room and Related Policies 15 Maternity Tours: Choose From Our Range of Photography and Videography 16 212-523-6091 Childbirth Options 2 Visitors 16 Labor and Delivery Suite 2 Admitting Department: Security 16 Maternity Tours 2 212-523-6400 Parent/Family Education Chapter 5. Program Classes 3 Your Postpartum Stay: Education, Private Room Information: Breastfeeding, Pediatric Evaluation 16 212-636-8009 Fetal Evaluation Units 4 Rooming-In & Breastfeeding 17 Birth Certificate Process: Chapter 2. Learning About Your Baby 17 By the Fourth Month of Pregnancy 5 212-523-6425, 9:00 am-4:00 pm, M-F Hourly Rounding 17 Register for Pre-Admission 5 Postpartum Medication 17 Financial Arrangements 5 Cord Blood Banking Providers: Identification Bands 18 Viacord: 866-861-8435 Prepare To Care for Your Infant 6 Call Buttons 18 CBR: 888-267-3256 Familiarize Yourself With Some In-Hospital Help Prevent Falls 18 Activities and Options 6 Preventing Infections 18 Interpreter Service: See page 7 Optional Mount Sinai West Maternity Deluxe Private Rooms 6 Newborn Examination by Pediatrician 19 Labor and Delivery: Birth Certificate Application and 212-523-8212 Acknowledgement of Paternity 7 Newborn Screening Tests 19 Cord-Blood Banking 7 Going Home 20 Patient Relations Department: Will You Need an Interpreter? 7 Turning in the Birth Certificate 212-523-7225 Application 20 Planning the Personal Items to Your Obstetric Provider: Bring for Your Stay 7 Discharge Information 21 What to Expect: The Physical Chapter 3. Effects of Childbirth 21 Events Leading Up to Delivery 8 What to Expect: The Emotional Monitoring Fetal Movements 8 Effects of Childbirth 21 How To Recognize Labor and Ways to Take Care of Yourself What To Do 8 After Discharge 22 About Planned Cesarean Deliveries 8 When to Call the Doctor 22 Chapter 4. Resources 23 Giving Birth With Us 9 Directions to Mount Sinai West 24 Admission to the Hospital 9 Paperwork Necessary to Obtain Obstetrical Registration and Triage 9 a Birth Certificate for Your Baby 25 Antepartum Unit 9 Labor and Delivery Suite 9 All About Vaginal Birth 10 Planned Cesarean Delivery 13 Dear Parent To Be... Thank you for choosing to give birth at Mount Sinai West. In this guidebook, we have outlined all the basic information you will need to make the most of your experience giving birth. Mount Sinai West takes pride in providing the highest quality care to our maternity patients. Part of the Mount Sinai Health System, Mount Sinai West is a teaching hospital— an academic affiliate of the Icahn School of Medicine. We are fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations. Our physicians, nurses, midwives, and clinical staff are all highly skilled, and our entire team is dedicated to providing you with the most complete information about your pregnancy, your choices of birth plan, your delivery, and your care afterwards. Congratulations from all of us, Michael Brodman, MD Margaret Grogan, MPA, BSN, RN Professor and System Chair Director of Nursing Department of Obstetrics, Maternal Child Health Gynecology, and Reproductive Science Don’t forget to register for pre-admission as soon as possible! Registering early will make things as smooth as possible when you are admitted to the hospital to deliver your baby. To Register for Pre-Admission for Childbirth go to: https://obgynreg.mountsinaihealth.org Or scan with your mobile phone using the QR code at left. Make sure to fill out the form, submit, print, and bring a copy to the hospital when you arrive to deliver your baby. 1 Chapter 1 Considerations in Early Pregnancy Summary of Self-Care Our Labor and Delivery Suite is staffed During Pregnancy by an expert clinical team, provides the latest medical and monitoring equipment, During pregnancy you should: and a full range of pain-relief options. The • Be sure to go to all prenatal care visits Labor and Delivery Suite accommodates with your doctor and with the Fetal a wide range of birth plans, from the Evaluation Unit. simplest, natural delivery all the way up to • Eat a healthful diet and drink plenty cesarean section, as decided by you and of fluids. your obstetrician or midwife during your prenatal visits. • Get as much sleep as possible. For the courses, visit our website at • Read about giving birth, and take a mountsinai.org/westob and refer to childbirth course and related classes Childbirth Education Classes. through the Parent/Family Education Program. Maternity Tours • Choose a support person to be with you during labor and delivery. • Be aware of the signs of labor, Free tours of all of the obstetrics facilities which include: at Mount Sinai West, including the Labor • Write a birth plan that explains what you › Contractions, both false and true. and Delivery Suite and the Postpartum want and helps you to think about › Your water breaks—amniotic fluid Suites, are available twice each week, on possible complications. suddenly leaks out through the weeknights. Once each month, the tour is vagina. offered in Spanish. • Talk to your doctor about: › Ways to contact her after hours and › Back pain. To learn the tour schedule, visit when you should call. › Slight vaginal bleeding. mountsinai.org/westob and look › Steps you should take when in labor. under Upcoming Events. › Whether you want pain relief Choose from Our Range Or you may call 212-523-6091. during labor. of Childbirth Options Reservations not required. › Perineal massage—the perineum is Of all life’s experiences, planning for and the area between the anus and the giving birth to your child is one of the most vagina. Massaging it may help to thrilling and eagerly anticipated. Each reduce your chance of trauma to family is unique, so it makes sense that a that area. hospital should offer more than just one › How you will travel to the hospital. way to have a baby. › Arrangements for home and work. • See Also: list of infant preparations It is our philosophy that all of the medically on page 6. safe choices concerning labor and delivery should belong to you. To find out about the options available, please feel free to ask your obstetrical provider, pursue courses with our Parent-Family Education Program, and visit our departmental website at 2 mountsinai.org/westob Parent/Family Education Group, held after the baby is born. In this session, you will be taught Fee: $75 per couple; $40 single. infant CPR and will practice on infant- The Parent/Family Education Program of Partners are encouraged to attend. resuscitator mannequins. Course material Mount Sinai West offers a full catalog of will include discussions of what to know courses, helpful in guiding and enriching Taught by an International Board Certified and do about choking and safety issues the growth of your family from before Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), this with an infant. You will also learn about the first child until the last one is born. class provides tools and techniques using the AED (Automated External Some of the courses are even helpful for for expectant parents planning to Defibrillator) found in public places. grandparents or child care providers. breastfeed. To help launch successful breastfeeding during the first few weeks The complete Parent/Family Education of your infant’s life, the class focuses Registration for Classes Program Course Catalog can be found strictly on breastfeeding, not bottle- by visiting You must register and pay in advance for mountsinai.org/westob feeding or pumping. Partner attendance and selecting the “Childbirth Education all classes, except where indicated in the is encouraged because it increases Classes” button. individual class summaries found here their ability to understand and provide or in the Course Catalog on our website. support during those beginning days of Among the many courses listed there are As indicated in those summaries, some breastfeeding. several that can be particularly helpful for classes fill up very quickly, and some you and your partner before and during Baby Care & Feeding classes must be taken at specific times pregnancy. Audience: Expectant, new, or adoptive during your pregnancy. parents or grandparents. Lamaze Courses To register, leave a message for the Format: One 5-hour session, offered on Our set of Lamaze courses teach Parent Family Education Program at weekday evenings, and in the daytime on childbirth techniques and are tailored to 212-523-6222. It is important that your a weekend. Class is 8-10 women and their your situation, whether a first pregnancy, message include 1) your due date, partners. Fee: $150 per couple. review of Lamaze after a previous 2) the courses you wish to attend, and pregnancy, or a vaginal birth after In this session, you will learn how to calm 3) a private phone number where you cesarean section: a fussy baby, how to recognize illness, can be reliably reached between 9-5 pm 1) Enriched Lamaze developmental milestones with an infant, Monday-Friday. A staff member will call 2) Refresher Lamaze bathing, diapering, and what equipment you back within three business days to 3) Vaginal Birth After Cesarean is helpful or not. The focus is on the first enroll you. Payment is required by credit card at time of enrollment. Refunds are Please go to the full Course Catalog at few months of the baby’s life. Skills are granted on a case-by-case basis. A $25 mountsinai.org/westob and selecting practiced on newborn dolls.