When it’s time to welcome a new baby into your family, highly skilled maternity care experts at Humboldt General Hospital are ready to make your birthing experience special. We love babies and taking care of new parents.
Our approach is family-centered. Your partner or support person is included in your birthing experience. They can stay at your side throughout the birthing process.
Our highly trained maternity team
Our pregnancy and delivery team includes board-certified OB-GYNs, family medicine obstetrics doctors, and certified nurse-midwives. The team also includes nurses who are certified in obstetrics or maternal and newborn care.
Our nurses enjoy helping new parents learn about their baby. We will answer your questions to help you feel prepared to bring your baby home.
Birthing suites and amenities
The obstetrics department at HGH has four spacious birthing suites. Each room features:
- A birthing bed.
- Large showers with comfortable seating.
- An infant warmer and baby bassinet.
- Sleeping accommodations for your support person.
- A mountain view.
To make your labor and delivery experience as comfortable as possible, we offer:
- Labor tubs (in two of our birthing suites).
- Birthing balls.
- Peanut laboring balls.
- Heating pads.
- Intravenous (IV) pain medicines.
- Epidural blocks (regional anesthetics).
- State-of-the-art, portable fetal heart-rate monitoring equipment, which allows walking during labor.
At HGH, we're committed to offering high-quality maternity care throughout your birth experience. A certified nurse anesthetist (CRNA) is available 24 hours a day to give you an epidural. If you need a C-section, the operating room is right next door. Our surgeons and care team are ready to assist in the safe delivery of your baby.
After you have your baby, you and your newborn can recover—and bond—in the same room. Your partner or support person can stay with you, and meals will be provided to them. Lactation support is available to help you get started with breastfeeding, if you choose to breastfeed.
Pregnancy and sleep problems
Get more ZZZs when you're sleeping for 2
When you're pregnant, your body goes through changes that can make sleeping difficult. Do you know what symptoms to expect when you're expecting—and what you can do to ease them? Select a + to find out.
Nasal congestion:Your blood supply increases during pregnancy. This and hormone changes can cause a stuffy nose and nosebleeds as your nose swells or dries out.
What you can do: Gently blow your nose. Drink fluids, and use a cool mist humidifier.
Heartburn:Hormones relax the valve between the esophagus and stomach. In your second and third trimesters, the growing baby also pushes on the stomach. These changes make it easier for food and acid to come back up and cause heartburn.
What you can do: Eat several small meals daily instead of three large ones. Avoid citrus, greasy, fried or spicy foods. Don't lie down right after eating.
Frequent urination:As your baby grows and changes position, the pressure on your bladder increases.
What you can do: Do Kegel exercises to tone pelvic muscles. Drink fewer fluids before bedtime.
Aching back, pelvis and hips:Your growing belly can strain your back. And the joints in your pelvis are relaxing in preparation for childbirth.
What you can do: Apply heat. Sleep with pillows behind your back and between your knees.
Leg cramps:Your growing baby puts pressure on the nerves and blood vessels that go to your legs. This may be the cause of leg cramps in pregnancy. Lack of fluids and blood circulation problems can also cause leg cramps.
What you can do: Sleep on your side instead of your back. Gently stretch your leg muscles. Drink plenty of fluids. Get regular exercise (with your provider's OK).
Restless legs syndrome (RLS):This sleep disorder is related to low levels of folic acid and iron. Symptoms of RLS include unpleasant feelings in the legs. Your legs may feel tingly or achy.
What you can do: Get enough folic acid and iron in your diet to prevent RLS. Your baby needs them too. Ask your provider what you can do if you develop RLS.
Sources: American Academy of Family Physicians; March of Dimes; National Sleep Foundation; Office on Women's Health
Since most babies are born healthy and full-term, we have a Level 1 nursery. But should your baby be born early or ill and require a higher level of care, we arrange transport to the region’s finest medical centers.
Visitation
OB visitation hours after delivery are 9 am to 11 am and then again from 6 pm to 8 pm. We want to allow you time to rest and bond with your newborn.
Sign up for birthing and breastfeeding classes
HGH offers classes to help prepare expectant parents for labor and beyond.
Learn more about our childbirth education, breastfeeding, and newborn care classes.
Please call 775.455.5138, to register for any of the classes.
Make an appointment with a pregnancy specialist at HGH
Our obstetrics providers provide prenatal care appointments at our Women's Health Center.
To schedule an appointment, please call 775.623.5222 and press 2 at the prompt.