Our Hospital - Week 7

So we went to the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Prentice Women's Hospital to take a tour of their facilities and find out what we would need to do to have the baby there. It is in the neighborhood called Streeterville here in Chicago, just down the street from Navy Pier. You can see some pictures of the facility and rooms here. This place is awesome and it is entirely for women giving birth, they do 13,000 births there a year! Anyways, we got to the building and went up to the info desk to find out where the tour was starting from. We got badges and then sat down to wait for the tour guide. When the tour started we were taken into the triage area where we would be admitted and where they would run a few tests and determine how far along we are and when it is appropriate to send us up to the LDR (Labor, Delivery, recovery) room, which by the way are 100% private. After that we went up to the 8th floor where we were shown the birthing suite or LDR room. These rooms are pretty awesome! They are huge! Everything will take place in this room and the baby will never leave our side, here is a picture I found on someone else's site. After that we went up to the 11th floor to see where postpartum recovery would take place. The rooms are similar to the birthing suite just a bit smaller. In all, this place is going to be a great place to have our baby and we know that we will feel comfortable there!