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Patient Rooms
Our large private patient rooms on the fifth floor are finely decorated in themes consistent with the birth of your baby and are a place of comfort and safety.  Each patient room has an electric hospital bed (adjustable for your comfort), private bathroom, bed for your companion, and cable TV. 

In addition, you will have at your disposal a telephone, call button to summon nursing staff, a sofa, and a special chair and pillow to facilitate breastfeeding.
 
Labor
Upon admission to the Maternity Department, you and your companions will be placed in a private room where all necessary procedures will take place.

During labor, you will be cared for by an obstetrical nurse who will evaluate your condition regularly: checking the heart beat of your baby, uterine contractions, dilation, and other cervical conditions. 

The delivery rooms are equipped with the latest technology and have the following:

• Electric hospital bed: Offers a variety of positions that provide greater comfort during delivery (reclining and seated positions).
• Open incubator:  Maintains ideal temperature for your baby during immediate newborn care.  In addition, equipment is readily available for neonatal resuscitation or the management of any other neonatal complication as needed.
• Fetal Monitor:  The baby's heartbeat is continuously monitored during the entire labor and delivery process.  The heartbeat is audible to both the mother and the healthcare team.
• Air Conditioning:  This maintains a comfortable ambient temperature for the mother during labor and is turned off the moment the baby is born in order to offer a warmer environment for the newborn.
• Camera:  If desired, you will be able to watch the delivery and immediate care of your baby in the incubator on screen. This option is available for both vaginal and cesarean deliveries.

Family Delivery
We have designed a new model for a vaginal delivery in the patient's room where the patient may choose three people to accompany her throughout the labor and delivery process.  The goal is, as the mother is accompanied by her family, to create a family environment full of confidence and security that will help transform the delivery process into a positive experience. 

Operating Rooms
We have specialized obstetrical operating rooms and use up-to-date technology, as well as disposable instruments and supplies, in order to reduce the risk of infection. Anesthesiologists are available on the premises in case of any emergency.

Staying Together: Maternal and Paternal Attachment
Our primary interest is in stimulating maternal and paternal attachment to the baby. You will be given the baby immediately after birth.  In the case of a c-section delivery, the father will be in charge of giving warmth and initial stimulation of the newborn through skin-to-skin contact until the mother arrives to her room, where breastfeeding will begin.

The infant will remain in the patient's room 24 hours a day, under direct supervision of maternity specialists who will guide the parents in changing diapers, breastfeeding, and care of the newborn in the home.  This will aid in boosting the parent's confidence prior to taking their baby home.

PhotoTherapy
For newborns presenting with neonatal jaundice, the Newborn Room is available 24 hours a day in order to provide the necessary treatment.

If you would like to stay with your baby all day and all night, we give you the option of using phototherapy in a private room.

In addition, a Billicheck is available, which is a specialized apparatus that allows for the measurement of billirubin levels through the skin, avoiding the need to puncture the baby.

Neonatal Intensive Care Room                                
This is a specially equipped area with advanced technology, including a neonatal ventilator, neonatal CPAP, neonatal monitors, among others. These allow for specialized care in case of any newborn complications.

In this area, the newborn is stabilized in order to transfer the newborn to a neonatal intensive care unit in another hospital center.

Neonatal Intermediante Care Room
This is a specialized area with enclosed incubators in order to provide care for those newborns at intermediate risk that require admission for specialized treatments (oxygen therapy, premature newborns with low birth weight, jaundice, or other treatments).  Parents may accompany the infant at all hours in this room.

Fetal Monitoring Room
This is a specialized area where fetal monitoring is available 24 hours a day, without need of prior appointment, where you will be monitored and evaluated by our obstetrical specialists who will immediately send a report to your treating physician.

Immunizations
Before leaving the hospital, your baby will receive the hepatitis B vaccine and tuberculosis vaccine (BCG).

Remember that the newborn screening test (heel-prick test) should be completed within the first week of life of your baby (ideally on the fourth day).  This is free and is done at the Clinical Laboratory on Mondays through Fridays between  7:00 a. m. and 4:00 p. m.

Also, before the mother leaves the hospital, she will be given the pertussis vaccine (whooping cough).