Having a Baby

We understand that having a baby is one of the most important events in your life. Our medical and nursing staffs share a common goal: to provide the childbirth experience you envision. 

Family-centered care

At South Shore Hospital, our family-centered care is the primary reason why we’ve become the region’s number one choice for maternal care.

Family-centered care means honoring patient and family preferences while providing care.
The approach is built on five principles: respect, information sharing, collaboration,
family-to-family support, and confidence building. When you add this philosophy to medical and nursing expertise and partnerships with world-renowned academic medical centers, you have an ideal blend of skill and compassion.

Our Maternity Center Staff believes:

• Birth is one of life’s most extraordinary experiences.
• Responsibility for decisions is shared between families and the health care team.
• In continuously learning through the experiences of our patients and families.
• In creating a safe and trusting environment, where patients and families are encouraged to share ideas and express their thoughts.
• In creating lifelong memories.

Nowhere else in the region does a maternity center offer:

• A choice of community-based maternity health care providers who are affiliated with
  South Shore Hospital, including more than 40 OB/GYNs, 14 certified nurse midwives, and five family practitioners. (Physician Referral)
• New and beautifully appointed maternity center, where each mother gives birth and recovers in a private birthing room and then moves to a new, private, post-partum room, where our nursing staff is dedicated to providing the highest standard of family-centered care.
• Neonatal Intensive Care to care for ill or premature infants, staffed 24 hours by on-site, board-certified neonatologists from Children's Hospital, Boston.
• Nursing staff dedicated to the individualized needs of mothers and newborns.
• A Weymouth-based reproductive endocrinology program, offered in association with Brigham and Women's Hospital, for women with fertility complications.
• A Weymouth-based maternal-fetal medicine program, offered in association with
  New England Medical Center, to support women experiencing high-risk pregnancies.
• On-site, 24-hour staffing at the hospital by a board-certified obstetrician, so that women have continuous access to appropriate emergency medical care at all times.
• High-tech operating rooms within the birthing unit, used exclusively for Cesarean births.
• Round-the-clock access to board-certified anesthesiologists and pain management services.
• Certified lactation specialists to offer teaching and support for breastfeeding mothers.
• Gentle Beginnings at South Shore Hospital is a lactation boutique that offers a full array of products for breastfeeding mothers.  Call 781-624-3470 for more information.
• A newly formed family advisory council that assists in the development of new programs and services for parents and their babies.
• Availability of home health services to ease mother's and newborn's transitions home.
• Innovative and informative childbirth education classes offered at varied times to meet your needs. Learn more about our classes.

Call South Shore Hospital at 781-624-4300 for more information or a tour of our maternity center.