Enroll in our online prepared childbirth class.

East Cooper Medical Center offers a wide variety of in-person classes at our hospital, but if you can’t come to a childbirth class in person, we'll bring the class to you. Our online childbirth education program is the perfect alternative to in-person education and provides comprehensive information to support new mothers. Online seminars help mothers recognize signs of labor, discover helpful comfort techniques, prepare for your baby’s arrival and know what to expect after giving birth.

Attend a variety of classes including:

• Understanding Birth
• Understanding Breastfeeding
• Understanding Your Newborn
• Understanding Cesarean

Specialty Services

We are dedicated to ensuring that you have a safe delivery. To make sure that happens, our hospital has invested in various resources that allow us to better care for you throughout your pregnancy.

We provide ante-partum testing so that we can monitor your baby’s condition before delivery. If you are interested in special delivery options, we can accommodate a variety of different birthing methods. Our team includes IBCLC Certified Lactation Consultants who visit every mother and baby to work with them on breastfeeding techniques.

Postpartum Support

Many mothers deal with postpartum depression or anxiety, and you shouldn’t feel embarrassed or ashamed if you need support coping with it.

For more information, please visit: www.ppdsupport.org

Comprehensive maternity services designed with you and your baby in mind

• Advanced technology and techniques: we ensure you and your baby will receive optimal care in a safe, clean and comfortable environment
• Pre-Delivery Observation: specialists can determine if a patient is in labor and perform other procedures pre-delivery.
• Ante-partum Testing: a simple, outpatient procedure to determine the condition of your unborn baby
• Special Delivery Options: our staff is skilled in a variety of special delivery methods to address the delivery options of our patients
• Patient Navigators: help guide you through the process from registration to post-partum questions
• IBCLC Certified Lactation Consultants: our lactation nurse visits each mother and baby after delivery to answer questions and assist with newborn care and breastfeeding. Our lactation nurse will also call the new mother at home for a follow up to make sure everything is going well
• Advanced fetal monitoring that closely records uterine and fetal heart activity to catch early signs of complication
• Extensive educational program that provides child birthing and parenting education classes
• Flexible visitation policy that allows special visitation for siblings and grandparents
  

Take a Virtual Tour

Take a peek at our obstetric facilities including our birthing suites, postpartum rooms and Level II Nursery.

East Cooper Medical Center Labor and Delivery Video Tour