Mother and Infant Care Center (MICC)

Labor, delivery, and recovery all take place in specially designed birthing rooms with warm, home-like environments, featuring private bathrooms, birthing beds, televisions, pullout sofas, and telephones. Take a Virtual Tour of a Birthing Room

Operating rooms with the latest medical equipment are conveniently located for Cesarean deliveries. After delivery, your family is provided with a private room (at no extra charge) on the Couplet Care Unit where a specially trained nurse cares for mother and baby. These rooms feature the above amenities plus a refrigerator and a state-of-the-art anti-infant-abduction system.The MICC also offers:

* 24-hour visitation
* Priority-parking passes for new and expectant mothers
* Lactation (breast-feeding) consulting and education sessions
* Room service and "Special Delivery" meals

The 23-room suite is broken up into eight labor rooms and 15 post-partum rooms. There is also a three-bed triage room, two operating rooms and a 25-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) right next door.

Your Quick Reference to Obstetrics and the Mother & Infant Care Center (link to flyer).

Service is integrated with advanced technology, which can be used to handle complicated pregnancies or deliveries, if necessary.

• MICC
  • Location:
    • Building: 10 Floor: 6
  • From the Visitors' Garage (Bldg 55), enter Bldg 10 from skyway on garage's 2nd floor. (As you leave the garage, it will be the skyway on the left, south end.) The garage has elevators and stairs at each end to access the skyways. In Bldg 10, proceed to elevators on right. Take elevator to 6th floor.
  • Phone:
    • Main: (301) 319-5000
    • DSN: 319-5000
    • Obstetrics and Gynecology : 301-295-6672
  • Hours of Operation:
    • Open 24/7

• Visitor Center
• Email
  • A contact OR Customer Advocate may be available for this department.
  • THE EMAIL RECIPIENT WILL NOT BE YOUR DOCTOR!
  • Check FAQs for quick answers.
  • Customer Advocates do not address:
  • Medical advice.
  • Prescriptions.
  • Appointments.
  • Vendors.
  • Customer Advocates do welcome:
    • Suggestions or compliments.
    • Helpful web site additions.
    • Feedback about your recent experience at WRNMMC.
  • Email the contact or Customer Advocate for MICC .

• Uncomplicated vaginal deliveries.
• Elective/indicated cesarean deliveries.
• Care of the newborn.
• Lactation support.
• Antepartum testing center- state of the art level III ultrasound and other diagnostic procedures.
• Family oriented birthing suites that have become a benchmark for the community.
• Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) program - supplementing and offering an alternative to the care provided by WRNMMC obstetricians and gynecologists. See article in The Journal, October 10, 2002.

• FAQ - Where are the baby changing stations in the America Building?
• Your Baby and You, From Birth to One Year   * - Presented by Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, and Navy Marine Corps New Parent Support Program.
• Healthy Pregnancy (4Women.gov)   * - From the National Women's Health Information Center.
• FAQ - Where can I obtain birth or death records?
• Perinatal Depression, Recognizing Warning Signs   * - This condition usually occurs within the first two weeks postpartum and rarely requires treatment- just proper rest and support.