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Becoming a mother is one of the most exciting and personal experiences of your life. At UCSF Medical Center, we strive to tailor every birth to a woman's preferences and medical needs. For complex or high-risk pregnancies, we provide specialized care including prenatal diagnosis, genetic counseling and fetal treatment.
From the time you discover you are pregnant through the weeks after birth, we have services to help ensure a safe pregnancy and a healthy baby. Our Great Expectations Pregnancy Program, part of our Women's Health Resource Center, offers classes including labor and birth preparation, baby care and parenting. The center maintains a lending library with more than 2,000 books and films and offers books and baby care supplies for sale.
During your delivery and time in the hospital, we want you to feel as comfortable as possible. Private birthing suites in our Birth Center have bathrooms with showers, whirlpool tubs and amenities such as refrigerators. Patients typically labor, deliver and recover there. After your recovery, you and your baby move down the hall to a private postpartum room, with a deep-soaking tub and chairs that convert into sleepers for family members or guests.
If your newborn needs special medical care, we have one of the nation's finest intensive care nurseries. Board-certified perinatologists, or doctors who specialize in high-risk pregnancies, are available if necessary.
Other services include the UCSF Center for Reproductive Health to help couples conceive, a program called UCSF Twins and More to help prepare women for multiple births and a program called Pregnancy and Postpartum Mood Assessment to help women cope with depression during and after pregnancy.
Appointments
To request an appointment, see our online form.
To make an appointment by phone, please call:
Obstetrics and Perinatal Services (415) 353-2566
For assistance finding a doctor in Women's Health or for other care, please contact:
| Physician Referral Service |
(888) 689-UCSF or (888) 689-8273 |
| Email |
referral.center@ucsfmedctr.org |
Pregnancy Education
Our Women's Health Resource Center offers Great Expectations pregnancy classes for information about pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and parenting. Sign up for a class online.
In addition, we offer patient education material for pregnancy as well as
breastfeeding products for purchase online.
Books
To help you learn more, books on breastfeeding and pregnancy, recommended by our staff, are available for purchase in our online bookstore.
Reviewed by health care specialists at UCSF Children's Hospital.
Last updated June 26, 2007
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