Childbirth Education & Tours
Expectant moms and dads can learn all about the "big day" (and the nine months before) at our childbirth classes offered year round at the Family Birthing Center. You'll learn about changes in the expectant mother's body, how the baby grows, and what happens when your baby decides to make his or her debut. There are even classes for breastfeeding, newborn care and other important topics. We believe it's our job to help get you ready for this happy event and we'll do what we can to make it an experience to treasure for a lifetime.
We provide:
- Help with pre-registration
- Personal tour of the Family Birthing Center
- Childbirth classes to prepare you for what to expect during labor, delivery and postpartum
- Provide helpful resources and articles
- Guide you in selecting a breast pump, if needed
- Provide nutritional assistance
- Access to lactation consultants
- Outpatient Lactation Consults available, please call (907) 861-6645 for more information
2018 Class Schedule Coming Soon!
To register for our childbirth classes, please visit our events page.
Tours
At Mat-Su Regional Medical Center’s Family Birthing Center, we want you to feel
comfortable about your delivery and have a wonderful childbirth
experience. You’ll see the Family Birthing Center in a completely new
way! To book a tour, please call (907) 861-6645.
The tour will consist of a tour in each unit:
- Labor & Delivery
- Labor-Delivery-Recovery-Postpartum rooms
- OB Triage rooms
- Postpartum Surgical rooms
- Level I Nursery
- Sick infants transfer to surrounding Level II and Level III facilities
The following will be reviewed with the tour group:
- L/D beds during delivery (and how they open up/break up)
- OB bed controls
- Television controls
- Temperpedic mattress toppers
- Nurse Call system
- White boards
- Hourly rounding / Bed-side shift reporting
- Dietary room service
- Celebratory dinner
- Café hours / Vending area
- Internet access
- Visiting hours-visiting limitations in L/D
- Quiet time-8pm-8am
- Lactation Consultant hours/availability
- Skin-to-skin immediately after delivery
- 24-hr Rooming-in, Mom & Baby
- Birth Certificates
- Baby pictures
- Infant car seats
- Pre-registration
- Locked unit / Infant Security tag
Please call (907) 861-6351 to schedule a personal tour.