The MaineHealth Waldo Hospital Family Birth Center provides expert childbirth services, close to home. We offer expert labor & delivery services as well as high-quality prenatal care and education.
Compassionate labor and delivery care in Belfast, Maine
The birth of a child is a wonderful, life-changing event. The MaineHealth Waldo Hospital Family Birth Center and obstetrics & gynecology team provide a nurturing and comfortable environment for you, your baby and the entire family. You can count on medical expertise, compassionate care and advanced technology—so you can focus on the labor and delivery of your newborn.
Our family birth center includes:
- Generously-sized birthing rooms (roll-a-way bed is available for your partner upon request)
- Two whirlpool tubs
- Postpartum rooms with telephones, flat-screen TVs, rocking chairs, pullout chairs and private bathrooms with showers
More about our services
We provide free childbirth education classes and support groups to support you and your baby. Join us to learn about:
- Stages of labor
- What to expect at the hospital
- Pain relief options, including relaxation, breathing, medications and epidural
- Complications
- Caesarean birth
- Breastfeeding
Private sibling education classes are offered to families with children over two years of age. This class is specially designed to help young family members prepare for their new sibling. Each class is scheduled on an individual basis.
Your child/children will have the opportunity to see where their sibling will be born and what a newborn looks like. Using a doll, we will teach them ways to help when the new baby comes home.
Please call 207-505-4140 to schedule a time that is convenient for you and your family.
The MaineHealth Waldo Hospital Family Birth Center team includes certified nurse midwives (CNMs) to meet your health care needs. Midwives provide services such as:
- Prenatal, birth and post partum care
- Annual exams
- Reproductive health visits
- Menopause management
- Patient education
CNMs are licensed, independent health care providers who can prescribe medication. They are defined as primary care providers under federal law.
We will follow safe sleep practices for your newborn while you are at MaineHealth Waldo Hospital.
Remember Your ABCs
The safest way for your baby to sleep is:
- Alone
- On their back
- In a crib
We recommend that your baby share a room with you for at least the first 6 months of life, or ideally for the first year.
Watch a safe sleep video and learn how to safely position your baby for sleep at naptime or bedtime to help prevent sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
MaineHealth Obstetrics and Gynecology Belfast
Learn more about our experienced obstetrics & gynecology team.
See our Family Birth Center
View photos of the MaineHealth Waldo Hospital Family Birth Center. To schedule a tour, please call 207-505-4140.
