Our Facility

Our spacious, all-private birthing suites are designed to make mothers and their families feel right at home. Our comfortable rooms include many special amenities that mothers and their families have asked for, including sleep chairs for their support persons, personal refrigerators, large flat screen televisions, and internet access. Other features include:

• Wireless monitoring
• Essential oils
• Early labor walking paths and activity stations
• Clear drapes for family-friendly C-sections
• Nitrous oxide for labor pain and comfort management

Labor and Delivery Options

Every expecting mother wants to have a unique birthing experience that meets her needs. The Harris Birthing Center is pleased to offer a variety of birthing options:

• Wireless Monitoring – move more freely while accurately monitoring vitals
• Showers During Labor – available in each of our private labor/delivery rooms
• Birthing Ball – can help women get into positions that may alleviate discomfort, help position the baby for delivery, prevent back strain, and encourage the progression of labor
• Music Therapy – patients may choose to bring and play soft music during their labor

Post Delivery Options

We offer a range of support after you deliver your bundle of joy including lactation and pelvic pain/incontinence services. To learn more, visit the General Obstetrics Services page.

Natural Birthing Suite

DMC Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital now offers a home-like birth experience with the peace of mind of award-winning obstetric care.

Located within the Labor & Delivery unit, the natural birthing suite is a personal and serene space for you, your partner and your baby. The suite includes a bath tub and shower, aroma and music therapy, dim lighting and traditional labor aides (birthing ball, Peanut ball and CUB). We also encourage laboring moms to ambulate/walk to ease discomfort during labor. Our interactive walking path, which begins and ends at our birthing center, includes eight activity stations allowing expectant mothers and their partners to scan QR codes that reveal videos tips and new activities to try.

Our experienced team of physicians, nurses and support staff has the knowledge to intervene in any emergent situation, if needed. We will keep you and your baby safe by:

• Monitoring vitals intermittently
• Monitoring baby’s heartbeat intermittently
• Palpating contractions

Is natural birth right for you? The natural birthing suite is suitable for expectant mothers who have:

• Low risk pregnancy
• No fetal complications
• No maternal complications

Interested in learning more about the natural birthing suite? Talk with your health care provider to see if you qualify.

Advanced Care For Mothers

Maternal-Fetal Medicine Clinic

The Maternal-Fetal Medicine Clinic at DMC Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital provides exceptional, personalized care to address any complications of pregnancy. Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) physicians, also called perinatologists, focus on the diagnosis and treatment of women who are at high risk for problems during pregnancy. These providers are obstetricians who have also completed additional years of training in high-risk pregnancy, and have advanced skills in medical complications during pregnancy, higher risk pregnancy-specific conditions, obstetric ultrasonography, prenatal genetics, prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapies.

Backed by the knowledge and skill of board certified Maternal-Fetal Medicine providers, the clinic works with your obstetric provider to coordinate prenatal care along with specialized testing and procedures to help ensure the best possible outcome. The clinic offers Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist consultation as well as prenatal testing and procedures using some of the latest innovations in technology and standards of care – physician referral needed. For more information, please call 248-937-5053.

To learn more about DMC care, visit the High Risk Pregnancies page.

Advanced Care for Babies

For those born prematurely or with special needs, the Harris Birthing Center has a Special Care Nursery.

Powered by Children’s Hospital of Michigan, the Special Care Nursery has experienced NICU nurses that care for newborns in need of more dedicated attention. As an added resource if a newborn has a unique set of health challenges, specially trained Children’s Hospital of Michigan neonatologists round on patients and also provide 24/7 coverage.

Children’s Hospital of Michigan is consistently recognized by U.S News and World Report as one of the top children’s hospitals in the country. Our partnership provides connectivity to their Level IV NICU, the highest level of NICU care available, and comprehensive number of pediatric specialists, offering easy continuity of care between obstetric and pediatric services.

PANDA One (Pediatric and Neonatal Dedicated Ambulance), the state's only pediatric and neonatal dedicated transport service, is on-call, via ground and air, to provide specialized transportation for children and newborns that need to receive care at Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit.

To learn more about advanced care for babies, visit the Advanced Care for Newborns page.

Obstetrics Classes

We offer several different classes:

• Birthing center classes to help you prepare for childbirth and life with new baby
• Bringing baby home take a close look at newborn behavior, nutrition, and hygiene
• Breast feeding classes and lactation consultant

Click here to view our classes.

Tours

Looking to tour our birthing center? Beginning April 1, 2022, tours are available on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. (enter through Emergency entrance) and Saturdays at 1 p.m. (enter through South Garden entrance). Only 5 couples allowed per tour (no children please) so preregistration is required.

To register for a tour, call us directly at (248) 937-5220.

After your tour date is confirmed via phone, please meet us in the Harris Birthing Center.

Note: Masks are required.

Disclaimer: All patients who are being admitted or are symptomatic will receive a COVID-19 test. We currently allow two support persons per patient.