Labor & Delivery
Our caring team helps you welcome your newest family member in a relaxed, comfortable environment with those you love and everything you need.
Special Delivery
Our team loves celebrating birth days! We are honored to share this special time with your growing family. We will assist you in every way to make your labor and delivery the best possible.
Expectant mothers can labor, deliver and recover in the same private birthing room, which is both well-decorated and well-equipped. All birthing rooms, as well as our operating rooms and Cesarean section rooms, contain the latest technology to accommodate normal and high-risk deliveries.
Thanks to an advanced monitoring system, our physicians can easily monitor contractions, heart rate and other vital signs of 24 patients who are either in labor or under observation simultaneously from the bedside, nurses station or even their office computer.
Baby-Friendly Designation
North Mississippi Health Services hospitals in Tupelo, Amory and West Point have earned the highly prestigious international Baby-Friendly designation after a rigorous review process.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Golden Hour is the first time parents and baby spend together as a family. It is the time for introductions; the first “oohs and aahs” and the counting of fingers and toes. This bonding time for you and your baby is a once-in-a-lifetime event and needs to be celebrated!
We want to give you and your baby time together, uninterrupted, so you can get to know each other. We know you want to introduce your family and friends to your baby and we encourage you to welcome them after you have had this time alone.
Studies show that the mother-child bond is critical for your baby’s ongoing growth and development. We are promoting skin-to-skin contact in the first hour of your baby’s life, as well as the hours and days to follow, to help the two of you get to know each other.
We will gladly help facilitate your feeding choice for your newborn, as well as assist you in any way possible to ensure that you have a wonderful experience in the birth of your baby. After discussion with your doctor, please let us know if you do not wish to participate in the Golden Hour or “skin-to-skin.”
Benefits of this time together include:
Increases mother/baby bond
Baby maintains more stable blood sugar
Baby becomes calmer, cries less
Mother increases milk production
Mother stays calmer
Baby breastfeeds sooner, longer & more easily
Boosts mother's confidence
Baby stays warmer
Well Baby Services
As part of our plan of family-centered care, pediatricians provide care for well newborns during their hospital stay. The physicians make daily rounds to assess each baby's health and to provide medical care as needed. Nurses provide reassurance and hands-on instruction in breastfeeding and infant care as moms make the transition from delivery to motherhood.
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Sign Up for a Class
Register online for a prepared childbirth class or other class helpful for growing families