Your Birthing Experience at Riverside

In our Labor and Delivery suites you will find:

- Spacious rooms
- 24/7 visitation for family and friends
- Free Wi-Fi
- Room service
- Labor hydrotherapy (two private rooms with labor tubs; showers in all others)
- Ambient lighting for increased comfort measures
- Surround sound via patient's music device through your AV cable
- Pink-noise helps minimize outside noise
- Wireless and waterproof fetal monitoring, allowing moms to move freely during labor and for ease of monitoring
- Access to birthing balls, including peanut balls to aid in the labor process
- Immediate skin-to-skin contact for mom and baby bonding
- Family centered C-section, or cesarean birth 
- 24/7 anesthesia coverage
- Vein illumination technology to help with difficult IV placement

If you need to be admitted to the hospital prior to your expected delivery date, you will be welcomed into an antepartum room. This specialized area specifically cares for women during their pregnancy. This includes high-risk pregnancies and for women who have complications arise during pregnancy. Located directly in Labor and Delivery, the antepartum area has four spacious family-centered rooms that feature refrigerators and tables to share a meal with family and friends, along with TV and DVD player in each room.

Some women manage the discomfort of labor by using prepared childbirth techniques, the birthing ball, warm showers, and/or systemic medication administered through an IV.

Three of the most common pain management options we offer on Labor and Delivery are IV pain medication, nitrous oxide and epidural analgesia. Epidural analgesia is a commonly used method to provide complete relief from the pain of labor or C-section birth. It involves an injection into the epidural space through your lower back.

Riverside Regional Medical Center is the only Peninsula hospital to offer obstetrical anesthesia coverage 24/7. You can speak to one of our anesthesiologists during your stay in Labor and Delivery.