Obstetrics
Resources
The links below provide useful information for our obstetric patients
Medications and other exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding
INSTRUCTIONS FOR NINTH MONTH OF PREGNANCY
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Below are some of the Obstetrics services that we specialize in:
Birthing Options at Strong Memorial Hospital
You will have your baby at Strong Memorial Hospital. Tours of labor and delivery are offered regularly. You may click the link below to register.
Childbirth Education
You will deliver your baby at Strong Hospital. Strong offers a variety of classes to help prepare mothers and their partners for labor and delivery, parenting issues, as well as breast feeding. Please open the link for specific information and to register for classes.
Comprehensive Maternity Care
Congratulations! Your first appointment for maternity care will be scheduled when you are approximately 8-10 weeks pregnant.
Your visits will continue on a monthly basis until you are 28 weeks, at this point you will be seen for 2 weeks visits until your last month when we will ask you to come every week until delivery. At each visit, the nurse will weigh you and check your blood pressure. Your doctor will listen to the baby’s heartbeat beginning at your 12-week appointment and every visit thereafter and the doctor will discuss information important for each stage of pregnancy at your visits.
You will deliver your baby at Strong Memorial Hospital. We will ask you to schedule an appointment 4-6 weeks after your baby is born to do a complete exam and discuss caring for yourself, your baby, and contraceptive concerns.
Your delivery will be at Strong Memorial Hospital. Your doctor will want to see you 4 to 6 weeks after the baby is born to do a complete exam and discuss caring for yourself as a new mother, as well as planning contraception.
High Risk Pregnancy Management
As a ParkWest obstetrical patient, you will have your baby at SMH. This affords you the opportunity of having a family-oriented birth experience with the security of having the best in medical care that Rochester has to offer, should your condition or that of your baby warrant it.
Ultrasound
Our ultrasonographers will your first trimester ultrasound; we ask the SMH obstetrical ultrasonographers to look at your baby in the second & third trimesters. These ultrasounds are read by the perinatologist (obstetricians that specialize in high-risk pregnancy).