Women's and Children's Unit

Caring For You and Your Newborn Baby

Our Women’s and Children’s care team is eagerly awaiting your arrival; usually around 2 hours after delivery and continuing throughout the remainder of your stay. Your new room will look similar; however much less equipment is necessary so you’ll enjoy the additional space as you welcome your closest family and friends.

We provide a family-centered approach to our care and services while ensuring the highest level of security. This means rather than placing your baby in the nursery, our team of highly skilled mother-baby nurses and physicians come to you to provide care when possible.

If, for any reason, your baby needs special care and equipment, we also offer a newborn nursery just down the hall, and a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Our Women's and Children's Unit also provides gynecological post-surgical care. Tour our Women's and Children's Unit virtually on our Pregnancy and Childbirth page.

After Delivery - Compassionate Newborn Care in Norman

Norman Regional is dedicated to helping you grow your family and ensuring every newborn is screened before leaving our care. We offer the following care after birth.

• Personalized care preferences related to the TeamBirth process
  • Communication boards
• Skin-to-skin bonding
• • A technique in which an infant is held skin-to-skin with its parent with a blanket over the baby's back, to keep warm.
• Pasteurized donor human milk available
• Newborn hearing screens
  • Clinicians from Oklahoma organization Hearts for Hearing will perform a hearing screening before your newborns leave the hospital. If additional follow-ups are needed, Hearts for Hearing will work to get your newborn scheduled for a follow-up appointment. Click here for more information on newborn hearing screenings from the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
• Newborn testing at 24 hours of life
  • Includes testing for Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) and a metabolic screen, which tests your baby's blood for over fifty hidden disorders.
  • Click here for more information from the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
• Newborn's first bath
  • Norman Regional nurses work with parents on using a Dandle-LION bathing system to demonstrate proper and safe handling during bath time. The Dandle-LION bathing system is designed to keep your newborn warm and comfortable during bath time.
  • Reminder to parents: this is a great photo opportunity to capture lifetime memories.
• Daily quiet time (2 - 4 p.m.)
• On-site birth certificate clerk
  • The birth certificate clerk will visit your family following delivery.
  • Parents can fill out the Child’s Birth Certificate Worksheet ahead of time. Click here for the form.
  • Save the filled out form and email it to Norman Regional Medical Records at NRHS_HIM_BirthCertificate_Team@nrh-ok.com
  • If you have questions please call: 405-515-3533 If you’re not able to email the worksheet, please fax the Child’s Birth Certificate Worksheet to: 405-515-3536
• Circumcision
  • If your baby is a boy, you will need to choose if a circumcision is desired while in the hospital. Your care team will discuss options prior to discharge.
• Dedicated Social Work/Case Manager - Phone: 405-515-3912
• Norman Regional Speech, Occupational and Physical Therapists develop personalized treatment care plans for all babies under 32 weeks and others as needed.

High Acuity Newborn Care Post-Birth

Norman Regional is happy to offer high acuity care to our newborn patients through our Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Whether your child’s condition requires close observation, oxygen delivery, or even high flow oxygen, we are here for you. We have specialty trained physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists to help care for your newborn.

The Women’s and Children’s Unit at Norman Regional Hospital offers high flow oxygen support when a higher level of care is required. High-flow oxygen therapy is a non-invasive treatment that delivers oxygen to patients who have low oxygen levels despite trying traditional oxygen therapy. It's often used for patients with respiratory distress caused by conditions like asthma, and acute respiratory distress from a variety of respiratory viruses.

Antepartum Care

Women with high-risk pregnancies may need to stay in the hospital before giving birth and receive specialized prenatal care. Some reasons you may stay as an antepartum patient for monitoring include:

• High blood pressure
• Preeclampsia
• Pyelonephritis
• Kidney stones
• Premature rupture of membranes

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Gynecological Post-Surgical Care

Following gynecological surgery, our Women’s and Children’s Unit offers specialized post surgical care.

Gynecology surgery includes any surgical procedure that involves the organs and structure of the female pelvic region: the uterus, ovaries, cervix, fallopian tubes, vagina and vulva. There are many reasons why a woman might need to undergo gynecology surgery.
If you and your surgeon decide you need close observation by women’s health nurses after your gynecological surgery, you will find what you need on our Women’s and Children’s floor.
We offer:

• Specialty trained nurses and staff
• OB hospitalists
• Spacious rooms with private bathrooms
• Bladder scanner