Choose Seton for your delivery

For more than 100 years, generations of Central Texas families have come to Seton to experience the miracle of birth. When it’s time to deliver your baby, you want a hospital and a team you can trust. Choose Seton Family of Hospitals maternity and neonatal services.

From our expert staff of physicians and nurses to the comfortable amenities of our birthing centers, from high-risk maternal services and Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) to world-renowned pediatric subspecialty care, no other hospital system in Central Texas can offer the level and continuum of care Seton provides to birthing moms and newborns.

It takes a unique blend of technology, expertise and compassion to deliver exceptional care to our mothers and newborns. That’s why, when it comes to babies, we really deliver. Get the details about Seton's maternity services.

Six convenient hospital locations

Exceptional neonatal critical care services

For newborns who need extra care and monitoring, Seton provides state-of-the-art NICUs and round-the-clock access to board-certified neonatologists.

Three Level III NICUs

Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas
Seton Medical Center Austin
University Medical Center Brackenridge

Three Level II NICUs

Seton Medical Center Williamson
Seton Northwest Hospital
Seton Medical Center Hays

Access to world-class pediatric subspecialty care

All Seton NICUs are supported by the wide-range of services and sub-specialists of Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, the only dedicated pediatric hospital in Central Texas. Dell Children’s rounds out a full continuum of specialty care for newborns who have more critical and complex needs.

Awards and Recognition

When you give birth at a Seton Family of Hospitals birthing center, you and your baby will be cared for by experts who are committed to your health and safety. Nursing staff and directors from all specialties attend regular meetings to review standards of care, discuss and adopt new practices and set goals. Seton is also involved in a national perinatal innovation group that sets standards for the safest possible care of mothers and infants. Find out what our award-winning care can mean for you and your newborn.

Seton Hospitals Earns Texas Ten Step Nod for Breastfeeding Support

Five Seton Family of Hospitals birthing facilities have been designated 2010 Texas Ten Step sites by the Dept. of State Health Services and Texas Hospital Association for providing optimal breastfeeding support for new mothers. The hospitals that have implemented 10 goals or “steps” to support mothers are Seton Medical Center Austin, Seton Medical Center Williamson, Seton Northwest, Seton Southwest and University Medical Center Brackenridge.

WHAT IS TEXAS TEN STEP?

To acquire the Texas Ten Step designation, sites must promote healthy outcomes for newborns by training all maternity staff and offering them annual updates. Hospital associates must provide moms with resources for continued care after discharge, too.

The objectives of the Texas Ten Step Facility Program are to encourage hospitals to achieve the following goals:

to have 75 percent of their mothers breastfeeding at discharge

to support breastfeeding mothers before, during, and after delivery

to identify breastfeeding resources for mothers after they are discharged

Our Seton hospitals have successfully implemented the ten steps of the program to support breastfeeding mothers.

Seton Hospitals Certified Among the Best to Protect Newborn Babies From Hearing Loss

Seton Northwest Hospital, Seton Southwest Hospital and University Medical Center Brackenridge have been recognized by the State of Texas as among the best in the state for screening newborn babies for hearing loss. The Texas Department of State Health Services monitors hospital-based hearing screening programs to ensure specific quality benchmarks are met. To be certified, hospitals must screen newborns for hearing loss, refer those who need follow-up testing to audiologists and inform parents and family doctors of hearing screening results. Certified hospitals have demonstrated a commitment to ensuring that those babies born with hearing loss are diagnosed early and channeled to the best resources to get medical and educational attention.

Seton Family of Hospitals Receives National Honor for Safety

Although birth trauma happens infrequently, it is emotionally devastating to families of affected children. The Seton Family of Hospitals’ innovative, perinatal best practice protocols has been recognized nationally for creating one of the safest care environment for moms and newborns. The Seton Family of Hospitals is a recipient of the Ernest Amory Codman Award for developing and implementing transformational practices in labor and delivery (L&D) aimed at reducing the rate of birth trauma.

First Award for Maternity Quality Matters Goes to Seton Family of Hospitals

Child Birth Connections, a national not-for profit organization working to improve the quality of maternity care, recognized Seton Family of Hospitals’ high level of care for moms and newborns. Seton has earned the Child Birth Connection’s very first Maternity Quality Matters award for demonstrating excellence in maternity care quality through measurement of performance, incorporation of evidence-based practice, and responsiveness to the needs of childbearing women and their families.

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