Family Birth Center - Dignity Health - Woodland Memorial Hospital

When possible, our family birth center team helps you deliver your baby in line with your goals and preferences. We support a range of birth options, including:

• Cesarean birth

• Natural childbirth (without pain medication)

• Vaginal birth

After delivery, we offer supportive care during your recovery. We help you heal and encourage bonding with your new baby. Our caring, experienced staff are available to answer your questions so you feel empowered and confident in your new role.

The Woodland Memorial Hospital Family Birth Center team offers many techniques, services and medications to help minimize labor pain. We provide information and guidance to help you decide which option is right for you.

Medication options include:

• Epidural anesthesia

• Nitrous oxide

• Patient-controlled epidural analgesia

Comfort amenities include:

• Aromatherapy

• Emotional and physical support through doula services

• Soaking tubs for hydrotherapy

The most important item to bring with you is an approved infant car seat. You may also want to pack an outfit for your baby and a receiving blanket. We provide all other necessary items for your baby during your stay, including diapers and blankets.

However, you are welcome to bring anything that will make your stay more comfortable, including: 

• Comfortable clothes to wear home (maternity clothes)

• Driver's license or ID card, insurance card, and pediatrician and OB/GYN contact information

• Flip-flops or slippers

• Lip balm

• Nightgowns

• Nursing bras and nursing pads

• Personal electronics and chargers

• Personal toiletries

• Snacks

We work to make your stay with us as comfortable as possible. You and your support partner can expect:

• Spacious private birthing suites

• Comfortable overnight sleepers for your support person

• Flat-screen TV

• Free Wi-Fi access

• Private tub in the birthing suite

Yes, we are always happy to show you around our birth center. You can register for an in-person Stork Tour to see our facilities and learn what to expect on the big day.

You may bring one guest on the tour, but no children are allowed. 

Register for a tour

At Woodland Memorial Hospital, we proudly offer complimentary doula services during your labor and delivery. Doulas are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Our doulas provide information along with physical and emotional support during labor and delivery.

Research shows there are many benefits to using a doula, including:

• Shorter labor times

• Fewer medical procedures

• Greater satisfaction with the birth experience

• Increased breastfeeding success

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Our team will help you with lactation support during your hospital stay. If you need additional help with breastfeeding, staff members can help arrange community support after you go home.

Woodland Memorial Hospital was one of the first hospitals in the nation to offer donated human breast milk to all newborns. Many hospitals only offer donated breast milk to sick or premature babies. But we make donated breast milk available to every baby because we strongly believe in the research-backed health benefits breast milk provides.

Our family birth center receives donated, processed human milk from the Mother’s Milk Bank, a licensed tissue bank.

We support each mother’s right to bottle-feed. We just encourage them to put breast milk in the bottle if possible.

Use our Find a Doctor tool or call (530) 668-2600 to find a doctor who delivers at Woodland Memorial Hospital.