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Giving birth brings new life and love into your family. Make the most of the experience at Mercy Birthing Center – Love Family Women’s Center.
Advanced Medicine and Compassionate Care
Trust your care to the childbirth experts at Mercy. Our multispecialty team of OB/GYNs, certified nurse midwives, pediatricians and nurses deliver comprehensive care with compassion. If the unexpected happens, you have the reassurance of our on-site maternal-fetal medicine specialists and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Family-Centered Childbirth Services
We’ve added more space to care for you and your baby before, during and after delivery. Our private rooms feature warm, spa-like surroundings with large windows and plenty of space for your family.
- Labor and Delivery Rooms – Our 15 newly built labor and delivery rooms are nearly double the size of previous rooms. You’ll find a variety of childbirth amenities, including laboring tubs and jetted showers for natural pain relief. Up to four visitors are allowed in your room during labor and delivery; for safety reasons, they must be the same four people throughout the process.
- Postpartum Rooms – After delivery, you’ll move to one of our 47 postpartum rooms to rest and recover. Your baby can room in with you 24 hours a day, and our secure nursery is available when needed. Our postpartum rooms have open visitation, so you can welcome visitors as you wish.
- Antepartum Rooms – Some moms with high-risk pregnancies need hospital care before delivery. Love Family Women’s Center has dedicated antepartum rooms and experts to provide this specialized care.
Our birthing center has three large cesarean section surgical suites and four preparation and recovery rooms. Our C-section suites connect to the main hospital surgery center, allowing rapid access to more medical care if needed. For C-section deliveries, one support person is allowed in our preoperative, surgical and recovery areas. As long as you and your baby are stable, your baby can stay with you in recovery.
Considering a high-touch, low-tech birth? We opened Oklahoma’s first hospital-based midwifery birthing program. To learn more, visit the Midwifery Birthing Center and Midwifery Clinic.
If your baby requires special medical attention, our Level III NICU is available with advanced care for premature or critically ill babies.
Your Mercy nurse provides breastfeeding support, and our lactation consultants are available 24/7. Lactation consultants visit you regularly while you’re in the hospital, and you can contact them even after you go home. To schedule an outpatient appointment with Lactation Support, call 405-752-3586.
Your newborn will have a complete pediatric exam in the hospital by their Mercy pediatrician or an on-call doctor. Mercy recommends that you choose your baby’s pediatrician or family doctor by your 30th week of pregnancy. If you need help finding the right doctor for your baby, ask a care team member to connect you with our prenatal nurse navigator. While in the hospital, you’ll also schedule your baby's first doctor appointment outside the hospital, which is usually two to five days after discharge.
Learn about pelvic-floor therapy and other treatments available at Mercy Therapy Services – Love Family Women’s Center. You don’t need a doctor’s referral for these therapies, which are beneficial both during pregnancy and after delivery.
Love Family Women's Center Classes and Meet & Greets
Congratulations! We’re honored to share this important time with you. Our childbirth classes in Oklahoma City are here to give you the knowledge and confidence you need before, during and after your baby’s birth.
Stop by for an informal Meet & Greet to learn all about what Love Family Women's Center has to offer! This is an opportunity to meet with one of our registered nurses who can answer all of your questions!
The Meet & Greet does not include an in person tour throughout our facility due to the safety and security of the patients we are caring for.
Understanding Pregnancy eClass
This is a unique online learning experience that provides comprehensive prenatal information you can trust. This interactive online class covers essential information on your baby's development, helpful tips for a healthy pregnancy and includes partner tips throughout.
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Labor and Birth Preparation
Expectant parents will gain confidence and feel better prepared to welcome their baby into the world by attending this class. This 4 week series will provide information about late pregnancy, preparing for labor and birth, how to know if you are in labor, the process of labor and delivery including common hospital practices, signs of labor, when to go to the hospital, hospital procedures, anesthesia and other alternatives, induction of labor, immediate postpartum and newborn care.
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Understanding Birth eClass
This unique online learning experience provides comprehensive information you can trust as you prepare for your upcoming birth. This interactive online course covers essential information on labor and more, and highlights ways partners can help throughout the process.
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Understanding Cesarean Birth eClass
This unique online learning experience provides comprehensive information you can trust as you prepare for your upcoming cesarean birth.
Basics of Breastfeeding Classes
Breastfeeding is the most natural and nutritional way to encourage your baby's development. Expecting parents learn how to get breastfeeding off to a good start. We'll also cover mom's nutrition, dad's very important contributions to breastfeeding success, and how to know your baby is getting enough milk. Additional topics include pumping, safe storage of breast milk, maintaining milk supply and keeping your baby's interest in breastfeeding.
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Understanding Breastfeeding eClass
This unique online learning experience provides comprehensive information you can trust about breastfeeding. Making the decision to breastfeed is one of the best things you can do for your baby! As with any new experience, you probably have lots of questions. Consider this class your go-to guide for answers.
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The Lactation Club (TLC)
TLC is facilitated by our certified lactation consultants in a casual, come-as-you-please setting to help new moms navigate their own breastfeeding experience and find support and connection with other new and breastfeeding moms. This is a free opportunity that welcomes any new mom of a newborn(s) up to 12 weeks old for expert guidance on personal breastfeeding challenges and successes. A baby scale will also be available for an infant weight check.
Infant and Child CPR Classes
Mercy's Infant and Child CPR class follows guidelines set by the American Heart Association. The class provides information on performing CPR and relieving obstructed airways in infants and children up to the age of eight. Mercy encourages parents, grandparents and any caregivers to take part in this class. This IS NOT a credentialing or certification course.
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Understanding Infant & Child Safety eClass
This online learning experience gives you the comprehensive information you need about how to keep your children safe from Day 1. Spanning from infancy to early childhood, this class teaches car safety essentials, safe baby care, childproofing tips, accident prevention in and outside the home, and how to be better prepared for an emergency.
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Understanding Your Newborn eClass is a unique online learning experience that provides comprehensive information you can trust as you prepare to become a new parent. This interactive online course covers essential information for the first six weeks and beyond, including clear video examples of bathing, feeding and diapering. You will learn why bonding is so important for brain development and how reading your baby's cues helps you understand what they need. You will also stay organized with a variety of helpful checklists and trackers! Allow 2-3 hours to complete.
Understanding Fatherhood eClass is a unique online learning experience that provides a soon-to-be-dad with information you can trust. This class will help guide you through your fatherhood journey--from pregnancy to birth and beyond, as well as all the things you can do to ease the transition of becoming a dad. With a positive focus on the importance of expectant dads being involved right from the start, you will learn how to support your partner through pregnancy and birth, as well as survival tips for those first few sleep-deprived months with a newborn.
Download the MyMercy App
Our MyMercy app makes it easy to manage your family’s health online. Download the free app to schedule appointments, message your doctor, refill prescriptions, get test results and more.
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