Mercy Health — Veard Family Birthing Center

For the most updated COVID-19 visitor guidelines please contact the Veard Birthing Center at 440-960-4000

At Veard Family Birthing Center, we’re committed to ensuring you have the best possible birthing experience. Our newly renovated birthing center offers everything a birthing mom and family could wish for, including labor, delivery and recovery in your spacious birthing suite that feels like home. Veard Family Birthing Center is updated with the latest technology, and staffed with 24/7 OB/Gyn, certified nurse midwives and anesthesia providers and will follow your unique birthing plan as closely as possible and offer alternative labor pain management options like hydrotherapy, massage, relaxation, IV pain medication, therapeutic music, birthing balls, an epidural or nitrous oxide for comfort. We encourage rooming-in with your baby and skin to skin contact immediately following delivery and throughout your stay to facilitate bonding. Each room provides overnight accommodations for your support person to be at your side your entire stay.

If your baby is born prematurely or with special medical needs, they will receive care in our Level II neonatal nursery from our highly skilled team. For high risk pregnancies, we partner with Akron Children’s Hospital to provide Maternal Fetal Medicine specialists, providing management throughout your pregnancy and delivery.

Recognized as having Ohio First Steps for Healthy Babies, an Ohio Department of Health and Ohio Hospital Association initiative, while being awarded 7 stars.  Considered a “bag free” hospital since 2013.

To speak with a lactation consultant, please call 440-960-3919

Maternity Services Available

• Labor and delivery
• Special care nursery
• Maternity
• Lactation specialists 

Veard Birthing Center Virtual Tour

We hope you’ll discover the unique features of our birthing center by taking a virtual tour below: 

We offer eClasses for both childbirth education and breastfeeding. These classes are offered at no charge to you, providing unlimited access to the content for up to 9 months.  If interested in registering for one of these classes please call: 440-960-3919.

Childbirth Class Curriculum:

• Labor and Comfort Measures for Pain
• Medical interventions throughout your stay, including cesarean delivery
• Newborn Care
• Postpartum Changes

Breastfeeding Curriculum:

• Changes during pregnancy
  
• Early days of breastfeeding, focusing on latching and positioning
• How to tell if baby is getting enough milk
• Breast care
  

YoMingo®

Mercy Health offers 24/7 parent education powered by YoMingo®, an education program designed to give you convenient access to valuable information. It includes the tools and support you need at every stage of your journey.

YoMingo gives you access to:

• Evidence-based information on prenatal care, labor & birth, postpartum, breastfeeding, and newborn care including lots of videos
  
• Information specific to your arrival and stay at Mercy Health
  
• List of available classes and support groups
• Kick counter, contraction timer, personal journal, feeding log, immunization log, and other tools

This education powered by YoMingo is available on any device with an internet connection and also as a mobile app called YoMingo.

Register for the program by clicking here:

Register

Once you have registered, you will receive an email invitation from noreply@yomingo.com where you will be provided unique login credentials. If you do not receive the email in your inbox, be sure to check your junk/spam folder. You can also download the mobile app version by searching your app store for “YoMingo”

Already registered? Log in here: https://app.yomingo.com/

Disclaimer: The information in YoMingo® is NOT intended to take the place of a healthcare provider or any information that your healthcare provider has discussed with you about your own personal health. It is imperative and advised that you find care and work with your healthcare provider to keep yourself healthy and safe. Always call your healthcare provider with any questions you may have. By creating an account in YoMingo, you have verified that you have read and agree to this disclaimer.