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Family Birth Center at St. Michael Medical Center - Silverdale
When you’re expecting a baby, your top priority is expert health care and support for your family. At Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, we focus on the needs of your entire family throughout the childbirth experience.
Excellent care for pregnancy and childbirth
Each year, more than 1,900 babies draw their first breath at St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale. We’ve served diverse families across Kitsap county for more than two decades. We offer you:
- An obstetrical Emergency Department with board-certified obstetric physicians for pregnant patients over 16 weeks' gestation
- A 10-bed, Level II Special Care Nursery with 24 hours a day, seven days a week care for babies born at 32 weeks' gestation or greater
- 24 hours a day, seven days a week OB hospitalists: Board-certified physicians specializing in obstetrics and available on-site for labor and delivery
- Vaginal birth after cesarean (or VBAC)
- 24 hours a day, seven days a week anesthesia: Board-certified physicians specializing in anesthesia services
- Breastfeeding support with our certified lactation consultants and lactation educators, including inpatient room visits and outpatient follow-up (by appointment only)
- Childbirth and parenting classes
- Food tray delivery service available for patients. The cafeteria offers many food options for visitors. Vending machines, with fresh food options, available on the unit.
- Community breast milk donation drop off
Our Level II Special Care Nursery provides care for babies born down to 32 weeks. We partner with board-certified pediatricians, Seattle Children’s Neonatal Advanced Practice Providers and Specialty Trained Neonatal Registered Nurses who provide 24 hours a day, seven days a week care for ill newborns in this dedicated unit.
Our registered nurses are trained in Labor and Delivery, Special Care Nursery and Postpartum. Our team partners with the Northwest Family Medicine Residency, and receives special recognition for achieving advanced nursing degrees, specialty certifications, March of Dimes Nurse of the Year awards, and Daisy awards.
Private, comfortable birthing suites
We designed our birthing suites for all stages of birth—labor, delivery, recovery, and postpartum. Our spacious, beautifully decorated suites provide many of the comforts of home, including:
- Birthing balls, peanut balls, positioning guides, and nitrous oxide
- Televisions
- Sleeper chairs for your support person
- State-of-the-art fetal monitoring for safe labor and delivery
- Quick access to two operating rooms, if needed
- Nurses trained in physiologic labor support
Birthing suite
Bathroom
Incubator-Level II nursery
Family Birth Center waiting area
TeamBirth: Personalized care with a team approach
We are proud to use a model of care called “TeamBirth,” which centers you in all health care decisions made throughout labor, delivery, and postpartum. TeamBirth uses frequent “huddles” to make sure everyone knows what is happening and why – at every step of the way.
Patients love the TeamBirth model because if a decision needs to be made, it doesn’t happen at the nurses' station; it happens in your room. If you don’t understand something, you have a chance to clarify things with your whole care team during huddles. This not only involves you in all decisions, it leads to better communication all around, which results in better care for you and your baby.
Take a tour
During the tour, you’ll learn more about your birth experience and meet some of our staff.
Find a provider at the Family Birth Center in Silverdale
Learn more about our pregnancy and childbirth services at the Family Birth Center at St. Michael Medical Center or make an appointment.
Download our free maternity health guide
Preparing for childbirth can be overwhelming. To help you get started, we’ve created a free downloadable guide that provides everything you need to know as you take your first steps toward motherhood with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. The guide covers:
- Choosing an OB/GYN provider
- Prenatal care do’s and don’ts
- Family prenatal and parenting education classes
- Your birth plan
- “What to bring” checklist, and more
Volunteer birth doula program
Learn more about becoming a volunteer doula at our birth center in Silverdale. Apply today.