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The Sentara Norfolk General Hospital Family Maternity Center offers a full range of services for mothers and babies - from problem-free pregnancies to the most high-risk pregnancies. We have the area's only dedicated high-risk antepartum unit, where mothers with the most complicated pregnancies can be closely cared for as their pregnancy progresses. The Family Maternity Center offers private birthing rooms for labor and delivery and dedicated operating rooms for c-section deliveries. Special private postpartum rooms allow babies to room in with their mothers.
The Family Maternity Center offers a 57-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) equipped with state-of-the-art medical technology and staffed around the clock by board-certified neonatologists (specialists in newborn care) for babies who need a higher level of care.
Sentara Norfolk General Hospital shares the academic medical center with the Jones Institute and Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters. The Jones Institute at Eastern Virginia Medical School, one block from the hospital, is one of the world's leaders for infertility treatment. Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters is down the hallway from our delivery rooms, allowing convenient access to their NICU. These affiliations facilitate convenient, accessible, high-quality care.
Pre-Register for Your Birth
Pre-registering makes it easy for you to check things off your baby prep to-do list, which helps keep you focused on you and baby, not the paperwork!
Where to Go When You Arrive
Please enter through either the River Zone (entrance closest to Sentara Heart Hospital) or the Kaufman Zone (entrance next to CHKD). Follow the signs to the Norfolk Zone and take the elevator to the fourth floor for the Family Maternity Center, where you can check in at the registration desk.
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