Birthing Center
Our Birthing Center professionals will deliver your personal birthing plan as you deliver your new addition! Dr. Dave Schwartz, Nurse Practitioner Halie Ruff, Nurse Midwife & Nurse Practitioner Katy Maker, and our skilled obstetric nurses provide exceptional, personalized care in an inviting, family-friendly atmosphere. Delivering your baby close to home and being visited by your family and friends is priceless.
Our Birthing Center offers three roomy delivery suites and one water birth suite, all providing our patients and families with the amenities of home. Each suite has its own whirlpool tub for relaxation and healing following the delivery, plus sofa sleepers, recliners, microwaves, refrigerators, and TVs.
During delivery, we also offer a variety of pain control:
- Spinal narcotic (intrathecal)
- Water immersion
- Nitrous oxide
- Aromatherapy
Water birth, or laboring in the water, is an option for low-risk mothers who are looking for a natural birthing option in a controlled environment. After enjoying the relaxation the tub provides, many moms decide to stay in the tub to deliver, while others choose to move to the delivery bed. Both Dr. Schwartz and Katy Maker are certified for water birth deliveries and perform them routinely. Women who use warm water for labor and birth report benefits such as enhanced pain relief, greater comfort, a deeper sense of relaxation, greater opportunity for positioning, and often a shorter labor and delivery.
A Lactation Consultant is also available during your hospital stay and even after you have gone home. We welcome patients at any stage of their pregnancy, offering that personal touch that sets us above the rest!
To make an appointment in Waukon, call 563-568-5530, or in Postville, call 563-864-7221. Interpretation services are readily available at either clinic. To tour our Birthing Center, please contact Jayne McCormick, CNO, OB Manager at 563-568-3411.
