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Planning on Having a Baby?
(WALNUT CREEK, CA) -- Learn why more families are choosing the John Muir experience at Oh Baby 2008, Saturday, April 12 from 9 a.m. to noon at John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek Campus, 1601 Ygnacio Valley Road in Walnut Creek. This free community event, sponsored by the John Muir Women's Health Center and the John Muir Health Network, is designed for those planning to become pregnant, are already pregnant or those parenting small children.
There will be tours of the John Muir Birth Center's newly renovated Birth Center, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric facilities. Participants can meet the medical center staff and familiarize themselves with the labor bed, monitoring equipment and newborn isolettes. Educators from the John Muir Women's Health Center will be on hand to share their specialized knowledge about breastfeeding, childbirth, prenatal and newborn care.
Four half hour lectures by local physicians and health system staff will cover Pain Relief Options for Labor and Delivery, How to Survive the First Week Home, the Pregnancy Disability Leave Act and an Overview of Obstetric and Pediatric Services at John Muir Health. Ongoing activities will include refreshments, raffle prizes and demonstrations.
About the John Muir Birth Center
John Muir Health offers all of the elements for a memorable and healthy birth experience along with access to one of the region's most comprehensive medical centers. Specializing in low- and high-risk obstetrics, the John Muir Birth Center provides a full range of amenities in a warm, homelike setting, access to highly advanced technology and facilities and the care and expertise of experience, specially-trained physicians and nurses. Obstetricians, anesthesiologists, and pediatricians are available in-house 24 hours a day along with 24-hour availability of neonatologists.
(Posted March 31, 2008)