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Obstetrics

Northwestern Medicine Obstetrics provides the highest quality of comprehensive medical care to meet the unique needs of women.

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Labor and Delivery Registration

Use our online resources to complete your delivery registration form and reserve your admission. It is recommended that you complete your delivery registration before your seventh month of pregnancy.

Labor and delivery pre-registration for the following Northwestern Medicine Hospitals

  • Central DuPage Hospital
  • Delnor Hospital
  • Huntley Hospital
  • Kishwaukee Hospital
  • Lake Forest Hospital
  • Northwestern Memorial Hospital
  • Prentice Women's Hospital
  • Palos Hospital

Areas of care

Prenatal Care

Northwestern Medicine offers a wide array of resources to help you stay healthy throughout pregnancy and give your baby the best start.

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Labor and Delivery

Northwestern Medicine will help you prepare for the birth of your child. Our team of physicians, nurses and health educators provide the services you need during labor and delivery.

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Maternal–Fetal Medicine

The Northwestern Medicine Maternal–Fetal Medicine team provides care for women experiencing high-risk pregnancies.

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Postnatal Care

From a private postpartum suite to excellent nursing care, find out what to expect when baby arrives.

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Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

The specialists1 at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital are fully prepared to handle multiple births (such as twins, triplets or quads) and emergency cesarean deliveries. For added assurance, an obstetrician, anesthesiologist and neonatologist are on site 24/7 to meet your needs.

If your newborn needs medical attention, a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is available at Central DuPage Hospital. The specialists in the NICU treat infants with special needs related to premature birth, low birth weight and other medical conditions, with highly sophisticated care.

If you're visiting Central DuPage Hospital, you and your baby will have convenient access to more than 140 board-certified pediatric specialists who use the latest child-specific equipment, technology and techniques thanks to an affiliation with Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.2

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    In the spirit of keeping you well-informed, some of the physician(s) and/or individual(s) identified are neither agents nor employees of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare or any of its affiliate organizations. They have selected our facilities as places where they want to treat and care for their private patients.

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    Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital and Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital is a collaborative program between Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Lurie Children's and its affiliated physician groups. The physicians participating in this program are neither agents nor employees of Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital or Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital.

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