The Santiam Family Birth Center is designed to offer a quiet, personal child birth experience with a qualified, compassionate medical staff. We encourage the whole family to participate in the joy of their new beginning. Delivering parents are encouraged to ask questions and participate in deciding on the treatment options available to them. Parents are supported to keep baby in their private patient room and experience as much skin-to-skin contact as possible for bonding.

During your delivery, you and your birth partner will stay in a spacious, private patient room overlooking the Willamette Valley or the Cascade Mountain Range. You will have the option to indulge in our beautiful labor tubs. Your birth partner can stay in a pull-out bed or comfortable sleeper chair in the room. During this challenging, yet amazing time, you are invited to bring your own music to aid in your relaxation as you welcome your new addition into the world.

Your labor partner will be provided with room service meal options during normal dining room hours, which are 7:00 am – 8:00 pm. The nursing staff can assist with ordering, and with providing snacks when the dining room is closed. On the morning following your delivery, you and your partner will be provided with a specially-prepared, in-room breakfast meal.

After your delivery, you may ask for a back or foot massage from the nurse, and you’ll be given access to Wi-Fi, diapers, and a take-home meal. In addition, your birth partner will also get a meal card and a snack pack. More options will be to available after delivery. Available for purchase are breast pumps and other breast-feeding supplies. Please ask your provider or family birth staff for a full list of amenities we offer.