Maternity and Pregnancy Services

A nurse examines a pregnant woman's belly during an office visit.

Focused care throughout your pregnancy journey

At MedStar Health, our experienced team prides itself on providing comprehensive maternity services before and after the delivery of your baby. From preconception counseling, to prenatal care, to delivery, and postpartum services, we aim to ensure healthy moms and babies have a happy well-prepared start for their growing families.

We offer state-of-the-art labor and delivery rooms, emergency triage, surgical suites, and a team of 24-hour anesthesiologists, midwifery, OB/GYN practitioners, and neonatologists to provide care for all full-term, ill, or premature newborns. With thousands of babies delivered and thousands of gynecological/gynecologic-oncology surgeries each year, we are dedicated to the utmost care of mother and child.

Some highlights of our maternity and newborn services include:

Care for high-risk pregnancies and consultations to help expectant parents be fully informed
Maternal-Fetal Medicine to assist in managing high-risk, complicated pregnancies
Optional midwife services from certified providers who can perform routine gynecologic and pregnancy care and manage labor and delivery if you choose
Award-winning Level III and Level IV neonatal intensive care units to serve our smallest patients
Access to a level II Special Care Nursery
Individualized support for your newborn feeding plans (several of our hospitals are baby-friendly designated from Baby-Friendly USA)
Lactation resources
Education on safe newborn sleeping practices (several of our hospitals including MedStar Franklin Square, MedStar Harbor Hospital, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, MedStar St. Mary's, and MedStar Washington Hospital Center) are certified as a National Safe Sleep Hospital by The Cribs for Kids®
Encouragement of bonding with your newborn via skin-to-skin contact
Sibling visitations and comfortable sleeping accommodations for delivery supporters
Mother/baby support groups and classes
Close access to restaurants and shops if support partner needs to pick-up food, clothing, or gifts during the new mother's stay Many of our parents choose to continue their newborn’s care with MedStar Health by choosing one of our many Pediatrics providers, conveniently located throughout the Baltimore and D.C. region

Many of our parents choose to continue their newborn’s care with MedStar Health by choosing one of our many Pediatrics providers, conveniently located throughout the Baltimore and D.C. region.

Sports team partnerships

MedStar Health is the official medical team of many professional, collegiate, and recreational teams in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., region. Due to this partnership, patients of our mother/baby and NICU units are sometimes visited by many of the athletes for special promotions and events.