Erlanger Hospital Services

Women's Services - Erlanger Baroness Campus

Women's Services - Erlanger East Campus

How to Choose a Hospital to Deliver Your Baby

Erlanger East Women's Services

Women's Services:
Baroness Campus
975 E. Third St.
Chattanooga, TN 37402
423-778-6103

East Campus
1755 Gunbarrel Road
Chattanooga, TN 37400
423-778-8700

Both campuses offer tours and a wide variety of childbirth education classes; including Grandparenting, Sibling, CPR, Father's Only, Baby Care, and Car Seat Safety.
Click here to find out more and to register.

Need help finding an OB/GYN or a Pediatrician? Call Erlanger's LINK line at 778-LINK for assistance.

The most complete low-risk obstetrical care in the region can be found at Erlanger East.

Single Room Maternity Care & C-Sections
Nursery Care
Affiliation with T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital at Erlanger
Prenatal Classes
Tours
Car Seat Checks
Breastfeeding Support
Postpartum Support
Newborn Photos

Single Room Maternity Care & C-sections

Erlanger East Women’s Services specializes in providing family-centered childbirth for low-risk maternity patients. Low-risk means there are no identified medical conditions present in the mother or the child that could pose a serious problem before, during or after delivery.

Spacious and beautifully decorated birthing suites, considerably larger than traditional hospital rooms, allow families to experience their baby’s birth together. Those who give birth vaginally will labor, deliver, recover and receive postpartum care from specially trained doctors and nurses in the comfort of their own private birthing suites.

Though designed for the low-risk patient, scheduled and unscheduled C-sections are routinely performed at Erlanger East in state-of-the-art operating rooms. After the baby’s birth, mother and child are moved to a beautifully-appointed suite on the single room maternity care unit where the entire family can celebrate the happy occasion.

Each suite is equipped with the latest technology in fetal monitoring, as well as special accommodations such as a TV/VCR/DVD player, refrigerator, rocking chair, sleeping accommodations for a member of the family and bathrooms with sit-down showers with a shower massage. Room service is available for the patient as well as her family.

You and your family will rest comfortably knowing that our facility is equipped with a state-of-the-art infant security system.

Our single-room maternity suites are so popular that we are completing the final phase of an expansion that will include seven additional rooms for labor, delivery, and recovery.

Though a comfortable and relaxing environment are important components of the birthing experience at Erlanger East Campus, the health and safety of you and your child are the primary considerations. We welcome those patients desiring an all-natural birthing experience, but 24-hour hour anesthesia service is available for pain management, including labor epidurals and C-sections.

Nursery Care

Some parents prefer to keep their newborn with them at night, but many want a few hours of uninterrupted rest, so a special holding nursery is available from 11 p.m. through 7 a.m. A new, 16-bed well-baby nursery opened as part of a new addition in 2007.

Neonatal nurse practitioners having high risk neonatal intensive care unit experience are on site 24 hours/day. They work very closely with the pediatricians and neonatologists, attend deliveries, and assess newborns.
A six-bed Level II-A Special Care Nursery is available for babies who require a higher level of care. This nursery is staffed by specially trained nurses and overseen by the neonatal nurse practitioners. A respiratory therapist is also in-house 24 hours a day.

The Special Care Nursery is capable of caring for newborns needing IV therapy, apnea or cardiac monitoring and respiratory support such as CPAP.

Visitation hours are open, and parents are encouraged to participate in the care of their child. The Special Care Nursery offers a “Care by Parent” room for parents to stay overnight with their newborn before the baby is discharged. This private room within the Special Care Nursery provides an opportunity for parents to learn to care for their infant’s special needs under the supervision of the specially trained nurses.

Affiliation with T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital at Erlanger

Should an unexpected problem that cannot be taken care of in the Special Care Nursery occur with your baby, the Neonatal/Pediatric Ground Transport Unit, crewed by the neonatal nurse practitioners and neonatal staff, is available to transfer the baby to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at T. C. Thompson Children’s Hospital at Erlanger on East Third Street. This is the only Level III NICU in the region, providing a level of care for premature and sick newborns that is not available at any other facility. Mothers will also be transported to the Erlanger Baroness Campus to be with their infants.

Prenatal Classes

A wide variety of affordable childbirth education classes are offered at Erlanger East. Classes fill early, so sign up at an appropriate time in your pregnancy. Don’t wait until the last moment to receive the education you need for a safe, less-stressful birth experience. CLICK HERE to register for classes online. Or call 423-778-LINK, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Prepared Childbirth (Lamaze)
Early Pregnancy
Childbirth Education
Accelerated Childbirth Class (Not Lamaze)
One-Day Lamaze
Pregnancy and Childbirth Awareness
Cesarean Birth
Cesarean Birth and Vaginal Birth after Cesarean
Breastfeeding
Sibling Class
Baby Care/Safety
Infant CPR
Dad’s Boot Camp

Tours

To prepare for your birth experience at Erlanger East, register for a one-hour, comprehensive tour in your middle trimester by calling 423-778-LINK, Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. Space is limited, and drop-in tours are not encouraged.

Child Passenger Car Seat Checks

A properly-installed and appropriate car seat is a legal requirement before anyone can take their new baby home. Expectant parents should have the car seat expertly-installed a month to six weeks before due date. The certified car seat safety technicians of Safe & Sound, the injury prevention service of T.C.

Thompson Children’s Hospital, provides car seat checks and installation at Erlanger East on the last Thursday of every month from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Call 423-778-6691 for information.

Breastfeeding Support

A breastfeeding-friendly facility, Erlanger East Campus has a lactation consultant who visits each breastfeeding mother during her stay, and our well-trained staff is able to assist. Our breastfeeding services include:

• In-room assistance with positioning and latching-on of baby
•Phone & office support following discharge
•Monthly Breastfeeding support group.

Postpartum Support Groups:

Breastfeeding

Mother's New Connection (Life with a new baby)

Newborn Photos

We offer customized newborn photo packages, sibling photos and baby photo posting on a secure website through www.erlanger.org.