Listen: Podcast interview with Julia Avery (.mp3/2 min.)

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the H1N1 Influenza, women who are pregnant are encouraged to not visit the hospital. We are still safely delivering babies, but as a precautionary measure, we have suspended tours of our birth centers until further notice. In the meantime, you can download our birth packet and take an online virtual tour:

» Download: Memorial Health System Birth Packet (.pdf/2.4MB)

Birth Center at Memorial Hospital Central

Birth Center at Memorial Hospital North

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At our Memorial Health System Birth Center, we offer birth care at two locations - Memorial Hospital Central (near downtown Colorado Springs) and Memorial Hospital North (northern Colorado Springs). Both facilities feature private birth suites with modern and comfortable accommodations and the comprehensive services, technologies and clinical specialists to evaluate and treat mother and child for:

• pregnancy and childbirth, normal
• pregnancy and childbirth, high-risk due to prematurity, low birth weight, intrauterine growth retardation, congenital malformations (birth defects), sepsis or birth asphyxias

Our birth care services include:

• labor, delivery, recovery care
• postpartum care
• high-risk pregnancy care (maternal-fetal medicine)
• cesarean section surgery
• prematurity prevention
• genetic counseling
• amniocentesis and chronic villus sampling (CVS)
• antepartum fetal assessment
• women's care (Women's Pavilion)
• lactation instruction

Mother’s experiencing high-risk pregnancies (due to maternal diabetes or heart disease, uterine abnormalities, a history of premature births or other previous pregnancy complications such as pre-eclampsia) are monitored by our maternal-fetal medicine specialists and may spend time in the Women’s Pavilion before delivery.

» More about: Our birth treatments & procedures

» More about: Women's care (Women's Pavilion)

For babies requiring special care after birth (high-risk newborns and babies with complex/critical illness), our Memorial Hospital for Children offers Level IIIb neonatal intensive care. NICUs are located at both birth center locations.

» More about: Pediatric care (Memorial Hospital for Children)

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Take a Virtual Tour

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Crying Baby Program

All new parents at Memorial receive education on how to deal with a crying newborn. Watch this video for a little more information about the Crying Baby Program at Memorial:

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How to Contact Our Birth Center

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Download Birth Packet

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Pre-registration

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Labor & Delivery Prepayment Plan

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Continue to learn more about our birth center ...

» Step 2: Our birth doctors & specialists