Maternity hospitals in Kansas City
With three birthing hospitals across the Kansas City metro, we make it convenient to receive exceptional pregnancy and childbirth care.
Our maternity units offer clinical expertise, low-intervention birth options and modern amenities focused on your comfort. We also provide high-risk pregnancy services, neonatal intensive care and access to our full-service women's and children's hospital at Overland Park Regional Medical Center, should you or your baby need extra support.
Comfortable and customizable childbirth amenities
Three HCA Midwest Health hospitals across the Kansas City region offer advanced childbirth care and support that makes more moms choose us for their babies' first days. Our modern birthing centers and suites are equipped with an array of amenities designed to keep new and expecting moms and their family members as comfortable as possible.
Family planning
- Fertility services to help you start your family
- Obstetrician-gynecologists (OB-GYNs) and midwives to care for you and your baby before, during and after pregnancy
Pre-birth amenities
- A Maternity Concierge Navigator who will lead you on a childbirth tour and help guide you through the childbirth process including creating a birth plan unique to your needs
- In-person and online childbirth classes
- Specialized care for mothers and babies going through a high-risk pregnancy
Labor and delivery amenities
- Access to childbirth tools and various pain control measures to enhance your comfort
- Large, private birthing suites with spa-like features and walk-in showers
- Low-intervention birthing options, including wireless monitoring, nitrous oxide, birthing balls and more
Post-birth amenities
- Partner can sleep in room
- Early bonding with your baby, including support for skin-to-skin contact
- Rooming-in and nursery options
- Lactation consultants to guide the breastfeeding experience. After you go home, you can take advantage of a free breastfeeding support group.
- Flexible visiting hours
- Web nurseries at several hospitals
- Enhanced infant security
- Access to high-level NICUs. Babies born prematurely and/or with serious health conditions can receive specialized neonatal intensive care. HCA Midwest Health offers three expert neonatal intensive care units including a Level III NICU at Overland Park Regional Medical Center that includes a Small Baby Unit for babies born under 29 weeks.
Spacious and private maternity and birthing suites
Our birthing centers and suites are designed to keep expecting moms and their family members as comfortable as possible. Our hospitals offer private, spacious rooms with a soothing and homelike environment. Other amenities include labor tubs, flexible visiting hours, virtual nurseries to view your newborn, photography services and a special celebratory meal.
Low-intervention birth plans
Our labor and delivery teams strive to support your decisions regarding the type of childbirth experience you desire. They partner with your OB-GYN or midwife to help provide as much or as little intervention as possible.
We follow all national standards for monitoring your and your baby's well-being during labor and delivery. Our board-certified physicians and midwives are available to counsel you and provide you with a safe and special birth experience.
What is a low-intervention birth?
A low-intervention birth focuses on minimizing medical interventions during labor and delivery whenever it is safe to do so. Sometimes referred to as a “natural birth” or "unmedicated birth", this approach emphasizes allowing labor to progress naturally while still having medical support available if needed.
Ways we support low-intervention births include:
- Aromatherapy / essential oils
- Birth / peanut balls
- Birthing / squat bars
- Delayed cord clamping
- Hydrotherapy
- Birth tubs
- Nitrous oxide
- Wireless monitoring
What are the advantages of a hospital-based birth vs a home birth?
Some families are drawn to home birth because it offers a familiar, comfortable environment and a highly personalized experience. In low-risk pregnancies attended by qualified professionals, giving birth at home can allow for greater flexibility and fewer routine medical interventions.
A hospital-based birth, however, provides immediate access to advanced medical technology and specialized care teams if complications arise. Our unmedicated and low-intervention birth options allow families to get the benefits of a natural, personalized experience with the added reassurance of on-site medical support.
Your obstetrician can help you compare both avenues based on your health history, pregnancy risk factors and personal preferences to determine the safest choice for you and your baby.
Midwifery care
Midwifery services are provided by certified nurse-midwives who specialize in low-intervention births for mothers with low-risk pregnancies. HCA Midwest Health offers a large network of certified nurse-midwives, which helps us provide our patients access to the birthing experience they desire with the added safety of a full hospital staff.
Our midwives help customize birth plans, facilitate father-assisted births and guide breastfeeding during the early postpartum period. You may enjoy working with a midwife if you would like to experience childbirth as naturally as possible.
Can I have a low-intervention birth without a midwife?
Keeping you and your baby safe
Unique ID badges
All family members and other visitors in our infant and child areas must check in at the nurse's station and wear a visitor ID badge/sticker. Hospital employees will identify themselves verbally and must wear an official hospital photo ID badge at all times.
All nurses who care for infants and children have unique scrubs specific to their area.
Security bands
After delivery, a security band will be placed on your infant's ankle. Your nurse will remove it just before you are discharged from the facility. Your birth partner will also be given an ID band. When a staff member brings your baby to you, your baby's band will be matched to your band. The bands will not be removed until you get home, so only the two of you will be allowed to come to the nursery to get your baby.
Post-birth alert, Orange Bracelet Program
The maternity hospitals of HCA Midwest Health are at the forefront of maternal health and safety. By implementing the Post-Birth Alert Orange Bracelet Program for our delivering moms, we can create a quick-response process to identify at-risk postpartum patients who may need treatment.
Each postpartum mom is provided an orange bracelet upon discharge to be worn on their wrist for eight to 12 weeks. The orange bracelet gives providers a visual cue to quickly assess and provide treatment for high-risk problems that can commonly occur following delivery such as:
- Hypertensive disorder in pregnancy and after – preeclampsia or eclampsia
- Venous thromboembolism, or blood clots
- Sepsis
- Cardiomyopathy, the thickening of the heart's walls
- Perinatal depression
- Substance use disorder
High-risk pregnancy
Whether you're pregnant with twins (or more!) or need guidance on navigating a complex pregnancy, our maternal-fetal medicine team is with you every step of the way. When you're classified as a high-risk pregnancy, you want to know you're in the care of experts who can handle any circumstances affecting you or your unborn child. Mothers-to-be receive comprehensive care from a multidisciplinary team that includes a nurse navigator, maternal-fetal medicine, pediatric specialists, genetic counseling, neonatology and social work. Our comprehensive care includes:
- Maternal-fetal medicine physicians available 24/7 to support high-risk pregnancies and deliver premature or critically ill newborns
- The largest dedicated high-risk antepartum unit in the region with more adult specialists treating expecting moms around the clock
- Over 175 specialists, including maternal-fetal medicine specialists, neonatologists, neonatal nurse practitioners, registered nurses, respiratory therapists, family support social workers, lactation consultants, registered dietitians and pediatric specialty doctors such as cardiologists, surgeons and neurologists
- Three neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) – a unit at each of our maternity hospitals, including a Small Baby Unit for babies born under 29 weeks
- A dedicated maternal and neonatal transport service to safely transfer you or your baby to a higher level of care. Expectant mothers can be transferred to Overland Park Regional Medical Center and infants can be transferred to any of our high-level NICUs from any hospital within an approximate 100-mile radius.
HCA Midwest Health Connect to Purpose: Declan Majors
When Danelle Majors' water broke at just 22 weeks, she was transferred to Overland Park Medical Center, beginning a healthcare journey that included her son, Declan, spending 168 days in the hospital's Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Thanks to the expert, compassionate care provided by the hospital staff – as well as the comforts provided to the family in the hospital's Ronald McDonald Family Room – Declan is now home, happy and growing stronger every day.