What should be considered when choosing a maternity hospital?

During pregnancy - especially if it is the first child. - A woman is often anxious: how will the birth take place? Will everything be fine with me and the child? Will they listen to me? Therefore, it is important to responsibly consider the choice of the hospital and learn in advance about it as much as possible. How a perfect hospital should look like, what types of care a modern clinic should provide and how it should be equipped, said Lyubov Sporysheva, head of the Women's Health Center of the European Medical Center (EMC).

Qualification of doctors

Doctors of a maternity hospital are people in whose hands literally there is your life and the life of a child. Find out what their experience is, how many births they took. For example, all obstetricians-gynecologists of the EMC have a 20–30-year experience and during this time each received 15–30 thousand deliveries. Many of them managed the departments in the leading maternity hospitals of Moscow, worked and trained in the best clinics of Israel, France and the USA.

Full service cycle

EMC Maternity Hospital is a private perinatal center at a multidisciplinary clinic and differs from conventional maternity hospitals in that you can start to be observed at the planning stage of pregnancy and solve all problems related to health. In our maternity hospital they are pregnant and take delivery of any complexity: after IVF, with double and triple, in patients with concomitant diseases.

If necessary, specialized specialists are involved in the management of pregnancy: cardiologist, endocrinologist, urologist, geneticist, and others. After the birth of the baby, neonatologists are observed around the clock. If the child needs specialist consultation, we invite the doctors of the EMC Children's Clinic.

A useful maternity hospital service, which is worth knowing in advance, is courses for expectant mothers. In the classroom, pregnant women are taught relaxing techniques and breathing exercises, which will be useful during childbirth. Experts tell what future mothers will face in the first months after birth. In our clinic, courses for pregnant women are created on the basis of the program for preparing for childbirth at Yale University Hospital USA.

Listening and listening skills

Experienced competent doctors always listen to the patient. We propose an approach common in maternity hospitals in Europe and the USA: even at the stage of pregnancy management, the patient, together with the obstetrician-gynecologist, draws up a delivery plan. Any wishes of the future mother are always taken into account, if it does not threaten the health of the woman in labor and the baby. A woman can choose any type of birth: vertical or in the water, with her husband or family, with a personal midwife or with doula - all for the comfort of the expectant mother.

Mom and baby safety

Today, almost all maternity hospitals are equally equipped. But there is just good equipment, and there is very good. The maternity hospital EMC, including resuscitation for adults and children, is equipped with the most modern equipment.

Be sure to pay attention to whether there is a second stage of nursing in the maternity hospital. We care for babies born at the age of 22 weeks, newborns with various diseases and children who have not sufficiently adapted after birth - unfortunately, such cases are also not uncommon. We hope that you will not need this item, but it is better to find out everything in advance.

Comfort

Choose a hospital where you will be well and quietly located. Go on a tour, appreciate the situation.

In our maternity hospital, we have created all the conditions so that the mother with the baby and their guests feel comfortable at any stage. During childbirth, the spouse or relatives can spend time in a comfortable rest room. After giving birth, mothers with newborns rest in studio wards or luxury apartments. There is an open veranda in the maternity hospital, where after giving birth the whole family with a newborn can spend time together.

If young parents wish, we can organize a photo session of childbirth or a newborn; when leaving the clinic, we can arrange a real celebration with fairy-tale characters, flowers and balloons.

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