maternity wards
Hospital baby sections
Maternity wards are hospital departments dedicated to childbirth and the care of newborns and their mothers.
The term encompasses labor and delivery rooms, postpartum recovery areas, and nurseries.
She spent three days in the maternity ward after the birth.
Also called maternity units or, in some hospitals, birthing centers.
- nursesMedical care professionals
- deliveryConveyance of goods
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- labor painsChildbirth's physical distress
- obstetricsChildbirth medicine branch
newborn · skin to skin · postpartum · recovery room · midwife · gynecology · incubator · neonatology · epidural · birth · first cry · cesarean · hypnobirthing · fetal monitoring · postpartum depression · kangaroo care · scrubs · crying
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
- hospitalshospital, ER, emergency room, ICU, operating room
- hospital facilitiesemergency rooms, ICUs, operating rooms, patient rooms, surgical suites
- childbirthcontractions, labor, pushing, dilation, birth
- maternal healthprenatal care, postnatal care, postpartum care, antenatal care, pregnancy care
- obstetric historymidwifery, obstetrics, childbirth, midwives, puerperal fever
maternity wardsoperating rooms
Surgical procedure spaces
emergency rooms · intensive care units · morgue · trauma centers · trauma units
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