St. Vincent’s Family Birthing Center
Your newborn’s arrival is an instant when the miracle of life fulfills its promise. In the right hands, Baby experiences that first touch as the gentlest, most reassuring welcome possible at the start of a swift, safe journey to your arms.
Here at St. Vincent’s, our Family Birthing Center (FBC) team members understand the deep significance of that moment and that journey.
Skilled and sensitive individuals who work in perfect synch together, recognizing what new parents instinctively know: that the all-important bond already established before birth is most perfectly served when Baby rests, skin-to-skin, in Mother’s loving embrace.
In the very best place
No event in your life will be more profoundly meaningful than this. And, as Mother-to-be, you have set the stage for it, finding the right place where you and Baby can share this new closeness and learn each other’s ways with expert help close by.
This is St. Vincent’s Family Birthing Center (FBC), where our integrated team approach to childbirth and our family-oriented attitude of intimate care are why more and more expectant mothers are choosing our Baby-Friendly FBC as their baby’s first “destination.”
Your FBC: a safe, relaxing haven
The level of confidence and comfort you are feeling will have a measurable effect on your childbirth experience. Being in a serene, thoughtfully appointed setting where loved ones can be part of your experience is a definite stress reliever.
State-of-the-art in design
Equipped with the latest medical technology, your private room offers an adjustable bed and comfortable chairs, a pull-out sofa for Dad, significant other or birthing coach, a private bathroom with soothing massage shower, and snacks available only a few steps down the hall. A special dinner is served before the new family goes home as well.
Your team is prepared and in constant communication with one another on your behalf. In fact, everything is ready for baby’s arrival and rooming-in with you right here on the 5th floor - or, as it is affectionately known by hospital staff, “the happy floor”!
Contact us
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To speak with somone at the front desk of the Medical Center, please call (203) 576-6000
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