Our specialty? You. The Women’s Center offers comprehensive services centered around your needs. At Kingwood Medical Center, we provide a full range of expertise from prenatal care through labor and delivery to postpartum care.
The team at Kingwood Medical Center will bring approximately 2,200 babies into the world this year. This unit is dedicated to ensuring the comfort and well being of expectant mothers and their babies with:
Recognizing the special needs of women immediately after giving birth, Kingwood Medical Center provides a dedicated, 25-bed Postpartum Care Unit. Our goal is to create a peaceful surrounding that reduces stress while maximizing patient comfort. An on-site lactation specialist also is available to assist with breastfeeding education.
Our Well Baby Nursery is dedicated to ensuring that you, your new baby and your family are well taken care of during the first few days after your baby arrives. Our compassionate and caring nursing staff is here to help when you may need it most. Lactation consultants are also available to help you successfully begin to breastfeed and serve as resources during your stay. With our family centered approach, we strive to meet your family’s individual needs.
We also care for our tiniest patients in the hospital’s Level II and III Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU), which provide highly specialized care in comforting surroundings. Our Neonatologist works with Neonatal Nurse Practitioners who are staffed on the unit 24/7 along with other specially-trained staff to monitor and care for each of the baby in the unit. To learn more about our NICU, please click here.
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Our Childbirth Preparation - Marathon class is offered for expectant parents and should be taken late in the second or early in the last trimester of pregnancy. The class is taught by our Childbirth Educators and topics in the class include: terminology, the process of labor, medical interventions and options, relaxation techniques, newborn care and a hospital tour. Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing and to bring 2 pillows and a blanket. This class is offered twice monthly on Saturdays and includes lunch. For women delivering at Kingwood Medical Center the cost is $40 per couple; it is $60 per couple for women delivering at another hospital. We encourage mothers to bring a support person at no additional fee.
Kingwood Medical Center’s Introduction to Breastfeeding class is offered twice monthly in the evenings for expectant mothers and should be taken in the second trimester of pregnancy. Topics in the class include: Breast anatomy and hormones, latch-on and positioning, Potential Challenges, Pumping and storing breast milk, and returning to work. The cost of the class is $10, and we encourage mothers to bring a support person at no additional fee.
The hospital’s Breastfeeding Support Group is led by our Lactation staff to support post partum patients who are breastfeeding. Since moms who have postpartum support are shown to be more successful and usually breastfeed for longer, we encourage new breastfeeding moms to come with their babies and questions every Monday from 10 a.m. – noon (except on holidays) to the Plaza Room, suite 146.
Our Infant Safety and CPR class is offered for new parents, parents- to- be, grandparents or care givers to learn the latest information about infant safety. Topics covered in the class include: car seat safety, SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), child-proofing your home and CPR for friends and family. This class is offered twice monthly on weekday evenings and is taught by an American Heart Association certified CPR instructor and should be taken in the 3rd trimester. The cost is $10 per person.
We offer a Sibling Class at Kingwood Medical Center for soon to be siblings between the ages of 3 and 10. The class topics include: caring for a newborn, holding an infant, newborn characteristics and a tour of the Women's Center. Our Sibling Class is offered once a month or by appointment as needed.
For a complete schedule of all classes, please call 800-258-5064.