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On-screen text: Sunnybrook logo. Title: From conception to Delivery - Sunnybrook's New Women and Babies Program
Marion DeLand: I'd like to welcome everybody to the new Women and Babies Program at Sunnybrook Health
Sciences Centre, opening on September 12, 2010.
Families that come to our new environment will be greeted with
bright space, state-of-the-art environments
technology that is buried within the friendly
confines and supportive environment so that it's not always in your face.
What they can look forward to is an early-labour assessment, where they will
come in and be assessed by staff to determine, do they stay, do they go home...
so that women aren't spending additional time in hospital that they
don't need to spend. If it's decided that they're going to stay
they'll be put into a birthing room, so if they are low-risk, they will be
able to labour, deliver and recover in the same room.
They are big rooms, they have lots of space, there will be room for family.
If they're high-risk, they will labour in that room, they may deliver in another
room, so they may have to go to an operating room. When they have their baby
when the baby is taken to the NICU assessment room
they will be able to watch what we're doing through a close-circuit TV.
Once the mum's had her baby and she's high-risk she will go to a mother-baby unit
the maternal newborn unit and stay there, or she may go back to the
high-risk floor, before discharge. The baby will be brought down to the NICU,
and admitted into one of these baby spaces.
So the baby will be brought down, put into an incubator--
an isolette--and have his or her own space and
behind the curtain is space for the family. So there's a separate entrance
for mum and dad. Some of the things you will find in the NICU for example is a
whiteboard that families can leave messages for other family members,
write phone numbers on, and there will be a television that you can watch.
There's pumping space for mums to pump breast milk.
Each of the pods, and in the follow-up clininc, have a
constant theme of twinkly lights. There is the
ability for parents to come and go how they please; they will have their own private
entrances to the baby spaces. I think the follow-up clinic is something that
is really, really important. We follow babies that need to be followed
up until 6 years of age. It's
special, it's state-of-the art, it's a different way of providing
care to high-risk babies, it's trying to be as
non-hospital as we can possibly, and be as patient-focused
and family-focused, and it's important that the families are part of the team.
And that's what we've tried to build.
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