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Barbara, a Huntington Beach resident, didn’t plan to deliver her baby—Benjamin—so early. At 25 weeks, a blood clot unexpectedly formed between her placenta and uterus. She was transported from a hospital 25 miles away to the nationally renowned MemorialCare Center for Women at Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach. Since Miller Children’s has both a high-risk pregnancy program and the highest level neonatal intensive care unit possible, it’s distinguished as one of the “Safest Places to Have a Baby.”

Barbara was closely monitored in the high-risk obstetrical center, where a health care team sustained her pregnancy and furthered Benjamin’s development in the womb. Benjamin was cared for in Miller Children’s premier neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the largest in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, specializing in premature and critically ill babies – right under the same roof as Barbara.

“Every day a baby remains in the womb equals two days less in the NICU,” says perinatologist Michael Nageotte, M.D., chief medical officer at the MemorialCare Center for Women. “Benjamin was born 12 and a half weeks early and only weighed one pound and15 ounces. His survival was a living testimonial to state-of-the-art perinatal care.”

Today Barbara and Benjamin are healthier than ever thanks to the specialized care at Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach.

Maternity Care

The MemorialCare Center for Women at Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach is a dedicated center just for women, providing compassionate, quality health care during pregnancy. The MemorialCare Center for Women offers a comprehensive program of research, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, educational resources, maternity classes and individual and family support programs all under the same roof. With an in-house maternal fetal subspecialist, neonatologist and anesthesiologist, as well as clinical laboratory services available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the highest quality care for mother and baby is assured for obstetrical and neonatal patients throughout the region. The MemorialCare Center for Women offers an around the clock high-risk maternal transport program, to ensure that mom and baby can be brought to the MemorialCare Center for Women safely.

The MemorialCare Center for Women offers leading high-risk perinatal programs which provide constant monitoring of mom and baby, while the baby grows as much as possible in the stable environment of the womb. All women who have had a high-risk pregnancy or are predisposed to one should choose a hospital where their baby’s needs can be met as well as their own.

Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach Stands Apart

Miller Children’s renowned high-risk pregnancy program has also been featured on Discovery Health Channel’s “Babies: Special Delivery.”
The MemorialCare Center for Women has been recognized by the State of California and Fit Pregnancy magazine as one of the safest places to have a baby.
Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach has a specially designed and staffed maternal transport ambulance equipped for high-risk obstetrical patients that is available 24/7.
The MemorialCare Center for Women offers bedside breastfeeding support around the clock.
The Center for Women features an OR dedicated exclusively to women. Should delivery be a scheduled or unplanned cesarean, the women’s operating rooms are conveniently located across the hall from Labor & Delivery in the Birth Care Center.