Maternity
There is no more important delivery than yours.
Welcome your little one in a comfortable setting surrounded by experienced, expert, compassionate caregivers. Novant Health’s comprehensive maternity services include:
- Educational services, including maternity, parenting, breastfeeding and childbirth classes
- Lactation and breastfeeding services before, during and after your delivery:
- Daily bedside nursing support from certified lactation consultants during your hospital stay
- Ongoing, free breastfeeding and chestfeeding support resources like assessment, private appointments, classes, breast pumps, and feeding supplies and aids
- Care for high-risk pregnancy and delivery (such as gestational diabetes and preeclampsia)
- Labor/delivery support, including treatments for pain management and resources on what to expect with a C-section
- Emergency obstetrics services and dedicated maternity surgical suites
- Newborn services, including complete pediatric services, hearing screening and a newborn nursery
- Advanced infant security system
- Bereavement support
We set the standard for maternity care.
At Hilton Head Medical Center. Some of our recent honors include Blue Distinction Center - Maternity Care from BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina.
Our advanced maternity services
- Ante-partum testing to monitor your baby’s condition before delivery
- Designated drop-off for delivering mothers at the front of the hospital
- Pain management options for delivery, including laughing gas and epidurals
- Neonatal nurse practitioners on-site 24/7
- Access to nearby neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Novant Health Coastal Carolina Hospital
Our private labor-deliver-recovery suites include all the comforts of home, such as:
- Large private bathroom
- TV
- Refrigerator
- Rockers
- Sofa bed for your partner
- Your established certified nurse midwife can assist onsite throughout your labor and delivery.
- Alternative birthing suites — offering hydrotherapy tubs, squat bars, birthing and yoga balls — may be available for low-risk pregnancies.
In addition to daily nursing support during your hospital stay, you can access chestfeeding services and resources, such as on-demand virtual visits, while you’re expecting and after delivery through Novant Health Breastfeeding. Post-partum lactation services are by appointment.
Hospital Preregistration
Preregister for a faster and easier check-in when you arrive to deliver your baby, and to receive relevant, timely information about what to expect and how to prepare for your new little one.
