Labor and delivery

Our services and amenities include:

• 24-hour visitation allowed for friends and family
• All private patient rooms
• Anesthesiologist on-site 24/7 to assist with emergency cesarean sections
• Dedicated infant protection system
• In-room sleeping arrangement for spouse, partner or chosen support person
• Locked unit for the security of you and your newborn
• Pain management options, including epidural and intravenous (IV) pain medication
• Patient rooms featuring a private bathroom, bathtub, couch, television and comfortable furnishings

To learn more about our labor and delivery services, please call The Women's Center at (352) 333-5300.

You can have confidence in the skills and experience of the healthcare professionals that make up our childbirth team. Our team includes a variety of specialists to meet your needs before, during and after delivery. The team includes:

• Anesthesiologists
• Gynecologists
• Labor and delivery nurses
• Lactation consultants
• Nurse midwives
• Obstetricians (OBs)

New parents can take comfort knowing that our maternity services are designed to ease the stress often associated with the immediate postpartum period. Our staff includes a board-certified lactation consultant who is readily available to assist new mothers with breastfeeding and answer any questions about infant feeding.

Following discharge from the hospital, in-person weekly postpartum lunches are hosted every Tuesday in the South Tower Conference Center from 11:30am to 2:00pm for women who have given birth in The Women's Center. These luncheons offer support and an opportunity to connect with other new mothers. You can enjoy lunch, learn about a variety of parenting and infant-related topics and receive lactation advice in a supportive environment.

To learn more about our breastfeeding support services, please call our Lactation Services (352) 333-5315.

Our hospital is home to a brand new 25-bed, Level III NICU located on the third floor of our hospital's South Tower. Our NICU offers medical care to newborns who need extra support following delivery. We care for premature babies born as early as 24 weeks and babies with complicated medical conditions that require additional monitoring and treatment.

As every mother who has breastfed knows, every drop of breastmilk is precious and takes a lot of time, patience and care to collect. HCA Florida North Florida Hospital is partnering with the Milk Bank of Florida to provide a breastmilk donation program for mothers in our area with an abundance of breastmilk that want to donate to babies in need.

Eligible breast milk donors are healthy women who produce more milk than needed to feed their own infants. Instead of discarding this milk, eligible donors can freeze and voluntarily donate their milk to our program. We ensure it is properly frozen and stored until collection from the Milk Bank of Florida. The Milk Bank of Florida is a non-profit organization that collects, processes, pasteurizes and dispenses donor breast milk to NICU babies and other medically needy infants in our state.

If you are interested in becoming a donor, please follow these easy steps:

• Call (407) 248-5050 for a short telephone interview.
• Complete a secure online health questionnaire.
• Permission to contact health care providers.
• Complete a free blood screening.
• Drop off your frozen breast milk to the HCA Florida North Florida Hospital Breastmilk Donation Program.

Our breastmilk donation program is located in the Medical Arts Building:
6400 W Newberry Rd. Suite 107
Gainesville, FL 32605

It is open for breastmilk donation drop offs on: Wednesdays 2:00pm to 5:00pm, Thursdays 9:00am to noon, and Fridays 9:00am to noon. Please call (352) 333-5314 or (352) 333-5327 with questions.