Sentara Leigh Hospital - Family Maternity Center

Pre-registering is a great first step to begin your journey with Sentara. This allows you to share important information with providers, including your birth preferences. Once you’ve pre-registered, you can sign in to Sentara MyChart any time of day to:

• Message your provider
• View test results
• View visit summaries
• And more

Pre-register today

Our Family Maternity Center features:

• Private, comfortable rooms for labor, delivery and recovery
• Infant security system to ensure safety for all newborns
• Private postpartum rooms with ample space for one additional person to spend the night
• 24-hour coverage by a board-certified pediatric team and anesthesiologists
• Nursing stations located close to the patient rooms, creating a family-like atmosphere among the nurses, new families and babies
• A Special Care Nursery provides care for babies who need a higher level of care
• International Board-Certified Lactation Consultants available seven days a week

Where to go

If you arrive at the hospital between 6 AM and 9 PM, enter through the visitor's entrance. Parking is available in the visitor's parking lot. Take the elevator to the second-floor rear entrance (2R).

If you arrive at night, after 9 PM or before 6 AM, and your provider has alerted our team to your arrival, you may enter through the front door by ringing the bell for assistance. You may also enter through the Emergency Department. Someone will assist you and bring you to the Family Maternity Center.

Upon arrival, you will register with the front desk staff and then be sent to a triage area to assess your symptoms and any concerns. Please have identification readily available.

If you haven’t pre-registered online, you can fill out this form and bring it with you.

What’s next?

Once you are admitted to the hospital, you will be given a private room that is spacious enough for your one support person to stay with you. Our team is dedicated to providing a great experience for both vaginal and cesarean deliveries while honoring your preferences. With safety as a priority, we will explain the process step by step as you progress through your delivery and recovery. You will transfer to a postpartum room following your delivery where you and your baby will remain together for the duration of your stay. Visitors and loved ones are welcome.

We offer multiple pain management options for childbirth. We want to empower you to choose the approach that best suits your comfort and unique birth plan.

• Birthing balls
• Peanut balls
• Birthing bars
• Shower
• Walking, movement
• Intravenous (IV) analgesic medications
• Epidural
• Elequil Aromatabs aromatherapy