When it comes to welcoming your new baby, Williamson Medical Center offers families a supportive and personalized birthing experience. Every step of the birthing process is designed with both the mother and baby’s well-being in mind, ensuring the highest quality care. From the moment you arrive, the team prioritizes your wishes, providing a 1-on-1 nurse-to-patient ratio during labor. With expertise in high-risk births, including multiples and complications, the experienced staff is ready to guide you through the journey with compassion and professionalism. Families can prepare for birth by taking childbirth classes, touring the facility, and asking questions during prenatal appointments to feel confident and ready. After delivery, Williamson Health continues to support both mom and baby with couple care, lactation guidance, and discharge education to help families feel equipped for life at home. Keep on reading to learn more on how Williamson Health provides comprehensive care before, during, and after delivery to ensure a seamless transition into parenthood.
Can you tell us a little bit about the birthing process at Williamson Medical Center?
When you choose to have your baby with Williamson Health at Williamson Medical Center, you can feel confident you’ll be getting the best care possible for both you and your child. In every case, we first and foremost respect our patient’s wishes and work with them to achieve the outcome they desire. We strive to provide a 1-on-1 nurse-to-patient ratio with laboring patients, and our award-winning team is well-equipped for high-risk births – including multiples and births with complications – so you can trust that you and your baby are in great hands.
What should parents do to prepare for birth before their time with Williamson Health?
Childbirth classes are a great way to prepare for the birth of a child. But, most importantly, talk with your doctor during your prenatal appointments and ask questions during that time. Additionally, taking a tour will help you become familiar with the spaces in which you will be delivering and recovering. That way when the time comes, you’ve had a chance to ask the questions on your mind and the chance to think through things like “How do I get there,” “Where do we park,” and “Where do I go once inside?”
Take us through the step-by-step process on what the mother will do once she has arrived to give birth at Williamson Medical Center.
The first step is to register at either the registrar outside our unit at the Boyer-Bryan West Tower entrance, or with the Emergency Room registration team if it’s after hours. Once you’re in our unit, you will be showed to your room, where the admission process will start with one of our nurses. This is a great time to talk about your wishes during your labor, delivery and postpartum time.
While in labor or during a C-section, what can mothers expect from the Williamson Health staff?
We treat each of our patients with respect and compassion throughout the entirety of their stay. Each member of our team serves as an advocate and additional support person for you during the birth process. We are happy to answer any questions that might arise, and we are also happy to take as much time needed to help educate patients and/or support people when necessary to make sure everyone is as comfortable and confident as possible.
If it is determined that your baby needs additional assistance after delivery, we have neonatal nurse practitioners in-house 24/7, along with respiratory therapists and our wonderful NICU nurses. The NICU is located on the same floor as the labor and postpartum units, so mom and baby can remain close to one another during their stay.
After the baby is born, how is Williamson Health there for the mother and the baby?
We offer couple care for mom and baby, allowing for one nurse to care for both mom and baby as a unit. This includes lactation support, which is available seven days a week into the evening hours. Because it’s so important to, discharge education starts at admission and continues without the entirety of your stay so that our new parents feel equipped to go home and take care of their newborn when the time comes.
Once the family is back at home, how can Williamson Health help?
Not only does Williamson Health provide top-notch labor and delivery services, we are part of a regional health system that is here to continue caring for our patients and their families long after they have left the hospital – by way of extensive comprehensive emergency and inpatient services for both adult and pediatric patients, women’s services, state-of-the-art cardiology services, advanced surgical technologies, leading edge orthopaedics, outpatient imaging services and more.
Williamson Health is a regional healthcare system based in Williamson County, Tennessee, with more than 2,100 employees across more than 30 locations and more than 860 physicians and advanced care practitioners offering exceptional healthcare across 60-plus specialties and subspecialties close to home. The flagship hospital, Williamson Medical Center, now undergoing a historic $200 million expansion and renovation project that touches nearly every aspect of the hospital. Other Williamson Health services include the Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee, The Turner-Dugas Breast Health Center, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital Vanderbilt at Williamson Medical Center, Williamson Health physician practices that are strategically located throughout the community, countywide Emergency Medical Services that include 18 rapid response units, Williamson Health Foundation, and multiple joint venture Vanderbilt Health and Williamson Medical Center Walk-In Clinics in Williamson County. Learn more about our many specialized services at www.WilliamsonHealth.org.
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