Maternity

At Atlantic Health, you'll deliver your baby in a supportive, family -oriented environment, staffed with caring professionals who provide the very best in medical care and the extra pampering new mothers deserve. Our board-certified anesthesiologists, obstetricians, neonatologists, and nurse practitioners are on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Advanced diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, maternal-fetal specialists are available 24/7 -- no wonder that more births go smoothly and more babies are born healthy at our hospitals.

We also offer:

• Parent education classes on all aspects of child care
• Private and comfortable labor rooms
• Lactation consultants to help you and your baby adjust to breastfeeding
• Complimentary massage

What's more, we offer you tremendous flexibility in choosing how your baby will be delivered because we can accommodate a wide variety of medically responsible birthing plans. Options include:

• Aromatherapy
• Birthing ball
• Breathing techniques
• Epidural
• Hydrotherapy (Showers or Labor Tubs)
• Music
• Doula support

If complications should occur during labor or delivery, each room is equipped for emergency situations and our highly qualified staff is trained to respond.

Once your baby is born, you and your child will be moved to one of our mother-baby rooms. Your baby can stay with you at all times, or be cared for in our central nursery while you rest.

Women with high-risk pregnancies are referred to Atlantic Health's Maternal-Fetal Medicine Center for evaluation and treatment. Morristown Memorial is a Level III Regional Perinatal Center and Overlook Hospital is a Level III Intensive Perinatal Center. All beds are equipped with the most sophisticated technology available, including individual fetal monitors with a central monitoring station. Both hospitals also have Neonatal Intensive Care Units to provide advanced care to our smallest patients.