(continued from front) Planning for a positive delivery day experience Giving birth is hard work — but you get an amazing reward at the end. Making a birth plan lets you tell us how you envision your day, so we can do our best to honor your wishes and help you have a safe, positive experience. • Download a birth plan at kp.org/birthplan. • Fill it out and share it with your prenatal care provider. • We’ll add it to your electronic health record so your care team can review it for delivery day. If you and your baby need specialized care Learning that your pregnancy is high-risk can be scary — but many of our high-risk moms-to-be have healthy pregnancies and healthy babies. Any specialty prenatal care you may need will be built into your maternity care plan. If you’re high-risk, you’ll see a perinatologist who specializes in complicated pregnancies. And if your baby needs extra TLC, our highly trained neonatal intensive care teams provide specialized care for newborns with unique needs. Breastfeeding your baby for a healthy start in life Experts recommend feeding your baby nothing but breast milk for the 昀椀rst 6 months. Learning to breastfeed can be dif昀椀cult and frustrating — many new moms struggle at 昀椀rst. If you choose to nurse your baby, you’ll get plenty of support from us. Board-certi昀椀ed lactation consultants are available to give you one-on-one support — both in the hospital and after you go home. To learn more, go to kp.org/breastfeeding. 1 Midwives are not available at all Kaiser Permanente facilities. 2Classes vary by location and some may require a fee. Kaiser Permanente health plans around the country: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., in Northern and Southern California and Hawaii • Kaiser • Foundation Health Plan of Colorado Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgia, Inc., Nine Piedmont Center, 3495 Piedmont Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30305, 404-364-7000 • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, Inc., in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., 2101 E. • • Jefferson St., Rockville, MD 20852 Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest, 500 NE Multnomah St., Suite 100, Portland, OR 97232 Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington or Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington Options, Inc., 601 Union St., Suite 3100, Seattle, WA 98101 kp.org/maternity Please recycle. 375426398 November 2019