At Boulder Community Health, we’re committed to making sure that
the birth of your child is everything you hope it will be. With an experienced
team always at your side, our award-winning Family Birth Center at Foothills
Hospital offers a full range of services to ensure you get the care, comfort
and keepsake moments you’ve dreamed about — not to mention
private, family-friendly suites with gorgeous mountain views.
Private, Spacious Suites Surrounded by Gorgeous Views
Surrounded by Boulder’s breathtaking Flatirons Mountains, our Family
Birth Center is a one-of-kind facility providing your ideal birth experience.
Modern Labor-Delivery Suites: You’ll stay in one of our eight private suites for your labor and
baby’s birth, including the initial hours of recovery. Each suite
has a spa tub and fold-down couch for your key support person to stay
overnight, as well as birth balls and squat bars to ease contractions.
Family-Friendly Mom-Baby Suites: After welcoming your newborn, you’ll be transferred to one of our
spacious, home-like, family-friendly suites, designed to let you and your
baby room-in together during your stay. With your baby nearby, you’ll
receive support from experienced nursing staff to assist you with recovering
from childbirth, breastfeeding (if desired), understanding basic newborn
care and transitioning to home. Each suite has its own temperature control
and mini-refrigerator, and most have queen-size beds for family bonding.
First-of-its-Kind Special Care Nursery
Operated in collaboration with
Children’s Hospital Colorado, our Family Birth Center is home to a
Special Care Nursery (NICU) for families with premature babies or who have infants with extra medical
needs. Every family stays together in a private suite. One room for newborns
and an adjoining room for family members — so parents can be near
their baby at all times.
Our Special Care Nursery includes:
Neonatal nurse practitioners and neonatal physicians from Children’s
Hospital Colorado.
24/7 access to neonatal specialists
Support of nurses and infant-feeding consultants who coach and collaborate
with parents on care taking
If you opt for natural childbirth, both our obstetricians and midwives
will support you without intervention if your labor is progressing normally.
That’s why our Family Birth Center consistently has low C-section
rates (15.4% in 2022) and high VBAC (vaginal birth after C-section) success
rates compared to averages among Colorado hospitals.
Baby-Friendly Designation
BCH is Baby-Friendly, a designation sponsored by the World Health Organization
and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and promoted by the Colorado
Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). Our Baby-Friendly
USA Certification means we’ve earned recognition for our efforts
in giving babies a healthy start in life. The rigorous designation requires
birth centers to have policies that enhance mother-baby bonding, offer
optimal care for infant feeding and ensure a baby’s nutritional
needs are adequately met, regardless of whether a mom chooses to breastfeed
or formula-feed.
Read What Being Baby-Friendly means.
Our Family Birth Center rents electric breast pumps and sells a variety
of breastfeeding supplies. Call
(303) 415-7230 for availability and rates.
Birthing Friendly Designation
Our Family Birth Center is recognized as a “Birthing Friendly”
hospital by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). "Birthing-Friendly"
is a national designation recognizing high-quality maternity care. The
designation identifies hospitals and health systems that participate in
perinatal quality improvement collaborative programs and that implement
evidence-based care to improve maternal health.
Tour the Family Birth Center
Join us for an in-person tour of our Family Birth Center at Foothills Hospital.
The tour is 45 minutes long and includes the Labor & Delivery Unit
and Post-Partum (Mother-Baby) Unit. Please click the links below to sign
up for a tour.
BCH is Baby-Friendly, a designation sponsored by the World Health Organization
and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and promoted by the Colorado
Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). Our Baby-Friendly
USA Certification means we’ve earned recognition for our efforts
in giving babies a healthy start in life. The rigorous designation requires
birth centers to have policies that enhance mother-baby bonding, offer
optimal care for infant feeding and ensure a baby’s nutritional
needs are adequately met, regardless of whether a mom chooses to breastfeed
or formula-feed.
Read What Being Baby-Friendly means.
Our Family Birth Center is recognized as a “Birthing Friendly”
hospital by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). "Birthing-Friendly"
is a national designation recognizing high-quality maternity care. The
designation identifies hospitals and health systems that participate in
perinatal quality improvement collaborative programs and that implement
evidence-based care to improve maternal health.
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