You have many options when it comes to giving birth. Making a birth plan before labor and delivery ensures that your care team understands your wishes. And while not all deliveries go according to plan, we do our best to support your birth plan at every step.

Your birth plan describes how you want your birth experience to go. It can include your pain management preferences, who you would like with you during labor and delivery and whether you would like a natural birth.

Your care team will help you understand your birth and delivery options: 

• Vaginal birth: You deliver your baby through your vagina (birth canal), not surgically, with or without medication. 

• Scheduled Cesarean (C-section): We remove your baby through an incision in your abdomen if a vaginal delivery puts you or your baby at risk. 

• Unplanned Cesarean: You and your provider may decide on a C-section if risks or complications arise during labor and delivery. 

• Trial of labor after C-section (TOLAC) and Vaginal birth after C-section (VBAC): TOLAC is the process of having a vaginal birth after a C-section (VBAC) in a past pregnancy. Talk to your provider if you’re considering a VBAC. 

• Scheduled induction: We may plan to give you medication to start labor for medical reasons if you’re past your due date by two weeks or more. 

• Natural childbirth: Natural childbirth means giving birth without pain medication. Relaxation techniques, birthing balls and hydrotherapy are pain relief alternatives.

Our goal is to provide a quiet, private environment where you can have a peaceful and joyful experience. Our labor and delivery rooms are designed with your needs in mind.

At some locations, we also offer dedicated antepartum (before delivery) rooms, recovery rooms and postpartum (after birth) mother and baby rooms. Other locations offer private rooms designed to cater to moms throughout the entire childbirth process. These locations provide a convenient, single destination allowing you to remain in the same room from admission through labor and delivery to recovery and postpartum, until discharge from the hospital.

We outfit our birthing suites with the comforts of home and all the necessary technology and capabilities to keep you and your baby safe. If you need an unplanned C-section, we have operating rooms immediately available.

Our luxurious birthing suites include:

• Comfortable sleeper recliners and sofa beds for family members

• TV with cable television access

• Free Wi-Fi

• Labor tubs (available in select hospitals)

• Labor bars and birthing balls and stools