MercyOne North Iowa Birth Center

• Obstetrician
  
• Family medicine resident
• Electric Fetal Monitoring (EFM) Certified nurses and providers
• Labor, delivery, and post-partum nurses
• Certified Medical Assistants
• Certified Lactation Counselors (CLC)
• International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC)
• Pediatric hospitalists
• NICU nurses
• Pharmacists
  

Our birth center is designed to provide a home-like,non-medical setting for your birth experience while still having access to advanced medical care in the event more specialized care is needed.

Amenities we provide:

Should your baby need advanced care, be assured MercyOne North Iowa's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit has the advanced training and technology to provide the care you need for a pre-term or sick newborn, staffed 24-hours by Pediatric Hospitalists.

MercyOne North Iowa Breastfeeding and Lactation Care provides support to all breastfeeding parents across North Iowa. We offer many options to connect with our International Board-Certified Lactation consultant and our certified lactation counselors including inpatient and outpatient support, classes and support groups.

MercyOne Birth Center is proud to promote safe sleep for our newest patients by implementing:

A safe sleep policy statement incorporating the Infant Safe Sleep guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Training for staff on safe sleep guidelines, the hospital’s safe sleep policy, and the importance of modeling safe sleep for parents.

Education opportunities for parents on the importance of safe sleep practices and implement these practices in the hospital setting.

Home care for newborns and parents

MercyOne Home Care provides in-home nursing for newborns, supporting you and your family for all your care needs. We specialize in pediatric skilled nursing care, neonatal care, ventilator and tracheotomy care, gastric feedings and infusion therapy. Skilled nursing visits provide education or training for those that are medically fragile. MercyOne Home Care provides short term intermittent visits to accelerate recovery at home.

Maternity app – YoMingo®

All things baby in one easy-to-use app! We now offer a FREE anytime, anywhere parent education powered by YoMingo. It features tools and support you need, like kick counter, contraction timer, feeding log and more!

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Services

• Care for low- and high-risk pregnancies, deliveries, postpartum and newborns
• Family-centered labor, delivery, and postpartum care
• Level II Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) staffed 24-hour by Pediatric Hospitalists
• Fetal monitoring
• Specialized delivery rooms
• Mother-baby nursing--one nurse cares for both mother and baby
• One-on-one education sessions
• 24-hour rooming-in
• Skin-to-Skin on all healthy term-deliveries
• Gentle c-sections
• Breastfeeding and lactation care
• Newborn screenings
• Hearing
• Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD)
• Neonatal Metabolic
• Jaundice