Family-Centered Approach to Childbirth Offers State-of-the-Art Care

Skagit Regional Health’s Family Birth Center provides a leading-edge, family-centered approach to the childbirth experience that involves interested family members in all stages of prenatal care and childbirth. We provide this expert care and positive experience for more than 1,000 births each year.

We closely monitor our birthing facilities to ensure that patients enjoy comfort and added benefits during this important time.

Mother and child share a room
The same specially trained nurse is assigned to both mother and child
Convenient, comprehensive and attentive care.

Committed to Compassionate, Comprehensive Obstetric Care

You can trust your care to our highly experienced clinical team. Our goal is your goal: to help make your childbirth experience the best it can be. Skagit Regional Health’s commitment to compassionate, comprehensive obstetric care allows women to relax and focus on their new or growing family's well-being, as well as their own.

Our comprehensive services include: Staff with Laboring woman

Advanced labor, delivery and postpartum facilities
Childbirth education
Follow-up services to assist you with newborn care at home

Multifaceted Team Provides Expert Care for Labor and Delivery

At the Skagit Regional Health Family Birth Center, a compassionate childbirth team is ready to assist you and your spouse or support person through each step of the delivery process. Our experienced, compassionate nurses are part of an expert staff of caregivers, well-trained to care for mom and baby.

Our multifaceted team of providers collaborate during the birthing process, including:

Board-certified anesthesiologists
Board-certified family practice physicians
Board-certified obstetricians/gynecologists
Board-certified pediatricians
Certified nurse midwives
Labor and delivery registered nurses

With a range of options for assistance during labor, epidural anesthesia services are available 24-hours a day.

Up-to-Date Technology for Cesarean Sections and Emergency Care

Family Birth Center Mom with Nurses If you require a cesarean section, we have operating room availability, either right in the birth center or a few steps away. We have the most up-to-date technology and services available in our region. Should your infant require emergency care, our specialized neonatal intensive care team is available around the clock to care for your infant in our Level II Special Care Nursery at Skagit Valley Hospital.

While most birthing experiences are joyful occasions, the expert team at Skagit Regional Health is also trained to help families through any difficult situations such as with a miscarriage, stillbirth or newborn death. Our nurses, social workers and chaplains can help coordinate details and provide you with resources to ease you through your loss.