Comfort During Labor
The Birth Center team knows that each laboring mom’s ideal birth experience is unique. To help support your labor and delivery choices, we offer:
- Massage
- Music
- Birthing balls
- Birthing stools
- Aromatherapy
- Jetted tubs
Medical options including epidurals and nitrous oxide are also available to encourage calm and relaxation. Doulas are also welcome to support you through your birth experience.
Private Suites
You will stay in a private, modern suite for your entire labor, birth and post-partum experience. Amenities include:
- A comfortable sofa bed for your support person
- Spacious bathroom with air-jetted tub
- Specially designed sink for baby’s first bath
- Mini-refrigerator
- Cable television
- Wi-Fi
- A MyChart tablet to communicate with your care team, view health education videos, play games and stream movies
A dedicated family room is also available to offer comfort and convenience for family and friends.
Birthing Suite Photo Gallery
Comprehensive Services
CentraCare – Monticello’s Birth Center offers the following comprehensive services to support healthy moms and babies.
Prenatal, Childbirth and Newborn Education
CentraCare – Monticello offers prenatal, childbirth and newborn information to families through our childbirth education series. View all birthing classes.
Breastfeeding and Lactation Support
If you are breastfeeding, pumping and/or supplementing, CentraCare – Monticello offers personalized prenatal and postpartum consultations with a certified lactation consultant to discuss breastfeeding concerns you or your baby's doctor may have including weight gain, milk supply, latch concerns, nipple or breast pain, plugged ducts, pumping, nipple shield use and weaning.
To learn more about how CentraCare – Monticello’s lactation services can support you, your new baby and your feeding choices – or to schedule an appointment for a consult – call 763-271-2218. Same-day appointments are available. We encourage all patients, prior to scheduling an outpatient lactation consult, to verify insurance coverage.
CentraCare Milk Depot
By having a milk depot, CentraCare – Monticello helps to ensure that medically vulnerable babies in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest have access to safely pasteurized human donor milk [pdf] when a mother’s own milk is unavailable or in low supply. Donations are sent to the Minnesota Milk Bank for Babies to be pasteurized, tested for bacteria, frozen, stored and shipped to health care facilities in need.
For more information on the milk depot at CentraCare – Monticello, call 763-271-2218.
Maternal-Fetal Medicine for High-Risk Pregnancies
If you have a high-risk pregnancy, telehealth consults for maternal-fetal medicine allow you to be cared for by your local pregnancy team, as well as maternal-fetal medicine doctors in St. Cloud. The service gives you access to genetic counselors, non-invasive prenatal testing, a first trimester ultrasound, a level II ultrasound and fetal echocardiograms. You’ll have the comfort of knowing your pregnancy can be monitored close to home
NICU Telehealth Services
Most babies go home within a day or two after you give birth. But some infants need a bit more care. Should that happen, your baby’s care team has a partnership with St. Cloud Hospital for neonatology services, which they can access through telehealth services 24-hours-a-day, allowing your baby to stay closer to home and family.
MyChart