Prenatal and Obstetrics Care

No matter how far along you are, Overland Park Regional Medical Center provides the best care for you and your unborn child. Learn about some of the services we offer for expectant parents. Also take a look at the testing and screening section to find out more about your child before he or she is even born. Some of our other services include:

Nurse Midwives

Overland Park Regional Medical Center’s team includes certified nurse midwives who provide the mother with education, counseling and hands-on assistance through both pregnancy and labor and delivery. Our certified nurse midwives have established excellence in midwifery, reflecting a philosophy of care that is directed at the woman and her individual reproductive needs. A midwife usually offers a variety of options and seeks to eliminate or minimize interventions, with services including:

Midwifes are appropriate for low-risk pregnancies (60 to 80 percent of all pregnancies are low-risk).

Antepartum Unit

Overland Park Regional Medical Center also offers a high-risk maternal-fetal medicine clinic with an experienced team of compassionate, board-certified perinatologists. Services include:

• Maternal diabetes patient management
• Genetic counseling including amniocentesis and ultrasound evaluation
• Prenatal diagnosis
• Critical care obstetrics

For more information about high-risk pregnancy risk factors, please visit Fertility & Family Planning.