The Brockville General Hospital Women and Children’s Program provides comprehensive, safe and quality patient and family-centred care to families and their children.
Location
You can find the Women and Children’s Program on the first floor at the Charles Street main site.
Program services
The BGH Women and Children’s Program provides many different services of care for women and children in Brockville and the area.
Gynecology
The program promotes a healthy quality of life for women in four areas of care: colposcopy, gynecology, urogynecology and mature women’s health services. Our doctors are a part of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
Pre-pregnancy and pregnancy
You can receive full prenatal services through our obstetrics and gynecology team if you know you are pregnant or wish to become pregnant.
Labour and delivery
The Women and Children’s Program ensures your privacy and comfort in all our pregnancy and delivery services. We provide safe, one-to-one nursing care with many delivery options to suit your needs and choices. The program offers vaginal and operative deliveries, including pain management options such as epidurals, available 24 hours per day. Whirlpool tubs and private rooms are available.
Women with low-risk pregnancies have the option for a natural, un-medicated birthing experience at the hospital with little medical intervention or technology.
Postnatal
After your baby is born, your healthcare team will provide 24-hour support, including instruction on skin-to-skin holding (also called kangaroo care), which helps newborns adjust to being outside the womb.
Your team may also use delayed cord clamping – a birth practice where the umbilical cord is not clamped or cut until after the pulsations have stopped or the placenta is delivered.
Your nurses and caregivers will also provide support with breastfeeding at all times.
Paediatric
The program offers 24-hour paediatric and neonatal coverage for your child’s safety and comfort. Through outpatient and inpatient consulting 24 hours per day, we can answer any questions you might have about your child’s health.
Midwifery
The Women and Children’s Program offers Generations Midwifery Care services in the hospital.
Surgery
Our health care teams are leaders in minimally invasive surgeries, including laparoscopic, vaginal hysterectomy and endometrial ablation.
Education
Learning is important to us. That’s why we participate in the Managing Obstetrical Risk Efficiently Program, which builds and sustains a culture of safety through the development of knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviours and practices.
Further education
Learn more about sexual health, preconception and babies, children’s health and nutrition at Healthunit.org.
For expecting mothers and their families, read more about The Mothers Program for the latest medical information on pregnancies.
OMama is a maternity care communication project that uses a website and phone app to securely store health records and provides access to trusted information on pregnancy, birth, postpartum and early parenting.
You can order the book, Healthy Beginnings, which offers valuable information on the needs of couples planning a pregnancy, pregnant women and new parents. You can also learn about healthy pregnancy with a guide developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Take a more in-depth look at our maternity unit team and the work they do!
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