Obstetrics

What is obstetrics?

Obstetrics is the medical specialty area that focuses on pregnancy and childbirth. At Artemis OB/GYN, the physicians and certified nurse midwives provide personalized care with a focus on helping women have natural labor and delivery. 

The obstetricians deliver babies at Overlook Medical Center, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, and Hackensack University Medical Center. The midwives deliver babies at The Birth Center of New Jersey, which provides the comfort of home birth with total medical support as well as birth tubs and other state-of-the-art equipment. 

What services does obstetrics include?

At Artemis OB/GYN, obstetricians and their clinical teams provide the following wide range of services or care for conditions pregnant women and newborns may experience or require.

• Preconception counseling and testing
• Low-risk and high-risk prenatal care
• Advanced maternal age care
• Cerclage
• Cesarean section
• Circumcision
• Gestational diabetes screening and management
• Genetic screening
• High blood pressure/preeclampsia monitoring and treatment
• Pregnancy after recurrent miscarriage or pregnancy loss care
• Preterm labor
• Vaginal birth after cesarean section (VBAC) (for appropriate candidates)
• Vaginal delivery of twins (for appropriate candidates)
• Postpartum depression
• Tubal ligation postpartum
• In-office fetal monitoring (non-stress testing)
• In-office ultrasounds by certified sonographers

Artemis OB/GYN aims to educate pregnant women and support their choices about pregnancy, labor, and delivery. 

What care should I expect during and after pregnancy?

You can begin to work with an obstetrician before you become pregnant. Artemis OB/GYN offers preconception counseling to help you enhance your health and get your pregnancy off to the best possible start. 

During pregnancy, your obstetrician or midwife provides prenatal care and tests to monitor your health and the development of your baby. They help you take care of your physical, mental, and emotional health throughout pregnancy as your body changes to accommodate the life growing inside you.

Then, when it’s time to deliver your baby, Artemis OB/GYN provides a variety of delivery options, helping you have a safe natural labor and delivery, including innovative pain management with nitrous oxide patient-controlled analgesia. 

When your baby is born, your obstetrician or midwife gives you your baby to hold for skin-to-skin contact. They complete all newborn exams, including footprinting, at your bedside so you and your baby can begin the bonding process immediately. 

Your relationship with your obstetrician or midwife doesn’t end with delivery. You stay in contact for your postpartum care. They provide screenings for postpartum depression and the support you need as you adapt to having a newborn baby at home.

Call Artemis OB/GYN or make an appointment online today for expert obstetrics services.