Bayhealth's Maternal-Child Departments at Kent General and Milford Memorial Hospitals offer patients and their families many alternatives to enrich the birth experience. Milford Memorial offers the warmth and convenience of giving birth and recovering in the same room, a Labor, Deliver, Recover and Post-Partum (LDRP) Suite. Kent General also offers Labor, Deliver, Recover (LDR) birthing suites in homelike atmosphere.

Maternal-Child Department at Milford Memorial Hospital: (302) 430-5739

  • Avg. 500 births per year
  • 9 LDRP rooms
  • Same-room maternity care
  • 4 bed pediatric unit (Pediatric phone number is (302) 430-5718)
  • Active Childbirth Education Program
  • Lactation Specialist
  • Child Life Therapists
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Maternal-Child Department at Kent General Hospital: (302) 744-7245

  • Avg. 1,700 births per year
  • 13 bed pediatric service with 4 bed Level II PICU
  • 10 LDR rooms with mother/baby beds
  • 2 C-section rooms within LDR
  • 15 bed Level II NICU staffed with Neonatologists and Neonatology Nurse Practitioners, and a Ronald McDonald Room for parents of NICU patients
  • 26 bed mother/baby and GYN unit
  • Active Childbirth Education Program
  • Childlife Specialists
  • Lactation Specialist