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The Birth Experience You’re Looking For

Whether you’re expecting your first baby or your sixth, the birth of your child is a moment you’ll never forget. At Lancaster Medical Center, our Obstetrics and Gynecology team is here to make your delivery day and the days leading up to it all that you’ve dreamed of. You shape your birth experience by telling us what matters most to you. Our experienced physicians and nurse-midwife at Lancaster Medical Center listen and provide personalized care to meet your unique needs and preferences. We’re a family-friendly hospital. We look at what’s best for the mother, partner and baby. We welcome you to tour the Family Birthing Suite to learn more about its features including:

• Private labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum (LDRP) rooms
• Birthing tubs located in four of the LDRP rooms
• Full-time lactation nurse available for breastfeeding supoort
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)-trained nurse on every shift
• Breastfeeding community support group meetings in Our Way Café
• Specialized childbirth support for patients with high BMIs  
• Operating room on the same floor for planned and unexpected cesarean deliveries
• Intensive Care Unit to keep moms who need special care near their babies
• Aromatherapy and Bluetooth speakers to provide comfort throughout your stay

Coordinated Specialty Care

Obstetric and neonatal patients who need advanced specialty services will benefit from the locally coordinated care provided between clinical teams at Lancaster Medical Center, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Health Children’s Hospital. Our Children’s Hospital in Hershey has a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the only NICU in the region prepared to handle the most complex cases.

Helping Families Grow

The obstetrics and gynecology providers at Lancaster Medical Center are part of a small practice, so you’re assured of personalized care, and you’ll know the doctor who delivers your baby. We offer:

• Customized, nurtured and supported birth plans
• In-office ultrasounds that are American Institute of Ultrasound Medicine-certified
• Outpatient lactation visits for our patients who deliver at Lancaster Medical Center
• Expertise in vaginal delivery after C-section, as well as breech deliveries

Pregnancy planning and fertility services

Lancaster Medical Center physicians provide fertility services right here in the office. Whether things aren’t going according to plan or you and your partner are same-sex, we have the expertise to help.

Dream delivery: Learn about a mom's experience with a water birth at Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center

Darian Burger, a Lancaster County resident, was 20 weeks pregnant with her fourth child. Due to a slipped disc in her back, she wanted a medication-free labor and delivery just like she’d had with her second and third pregnancies. She knew what to expect, including the pain

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