LaWanda and baby Benjamin receive advanced care and life-saving heart transplant

Our Facility

Our spacious, private postpartum 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 sleeping accommodations for their support person, a large flat screen television and internet access. Some other features include:

• Nurses with advanced training
• Showers in labor/delivery rooms for added comfort during labor
• Advanced surgical suites designed for C-sections
• Mother/Baby Unit for moms and babies to share a private room
• Comfortable sleeping accommodations for birthing partners
• Certified lactation consultants for hands-on assistance
• Maternal Special Care unit for close monitoring of pregnant women with complex medical conditions
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for babies requiring more advanced medical attention
• Special Care Nursery for babies who require closer monitoring
• 24-hour security camera monitors
• Social workers for mothers in need of resources and assistance

Labor and Delivery Options

Every expecting mother wants to have a unique birthing experience which meets her needs. DMC Hutzel Women’s Hospital is pleased to offer options to help customize your hospital birth experience:

• Anesthesia – provides various options for labor pain relief and comfort management
• Wireless Monitoring – allows you to 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 – available for patients who want to bring and play soft music during their labor

Please discuss labor and delivery options with your physician or healthcare provider.

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.

Advanced Care for Mothers

No woman wants to hear that there may be complications with her pregnancy. If this happens, you’ll want to know that you’re in highly-skilled hands. DMC Hutzel Women’s Hospital has maternal-fetal medicine physicians, also called perinatologists, who 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 experience with medical complications during pregnancy, higher risk pregnancy-specific conditions, obstetric ultrasonography, prenatal genetics, prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapies
• Work with your obstetrician to coordinate prenatal care along with specialized testing and procedures to ensure the best possible outcome

Advanced Care for Babies

For those babies born prematurely, or with special health needs, DMC Hutzel Women’s Hospital has comprehensive resources to provide specialized neonatal care.

• Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) provides advanced care to critically ill newborns and premature babies, some delivered as early as 23 weeks. Infants receive multidisciplinary care from our highly-trained team of NICU physicians, nurses and specialists.
• Our Special Care Nursery provides specialized care and monitoring for newborns facing complications during their first days of life. The nursery is staffed by specially trained nurses and respiratory therapists who are prepared for several therapies, including IV therapy, oxygen, nutritional therapy and phototherapy.
• We have neonatologists on staff available for the treatment and care of newborn babies requiring specialized care.
• Our partnership with the DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan and its comprehensive team of pediatric specialists enables access to the most advanced critical care for babies born with congenital or special health needs.
• PANDA One, the state's only pediatric and neonatal dedicated ambulance, is on-call to provide specialized transportation for infants and children who need to receive care at DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan.
• Explore the advanced care for babies available at DMC Hutzel Women’s Hospital
• For those babies whose medical condition requires significant care, learn about the specialized newborn care at our nationally acclaimed DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan.

Additional Resources

• Tours at the DMC Hutzel Women’s Hospital Birthing Center in Midtown Detroit are available by calling 888-DMC-2500.

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