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Welcome
to the Maternal Child Health website from the University of
North Carolina Department of Family Medicine!
Description
of the UNC Family Medicine Maternal Child Health Program
The MCH Program includes a certified nurse midwife, a perinatal
nurse coordinator and breastfeeding educator, a maternity
care coordinator, faculty physicians, and resident physicians.
Our Department is committed to providing family centered care
throughout the lifespan and we make every effort to ensure
that this will happen during prenatal care, the birth experience,
and newborn care. Families are assigned one or two primary
providers who will participate in their prenatal care as well
as being available for their birth. Most families believe
that individualized care is more satisfying; this allows us
to work with your "birth plan" so that your experience
reflects your wants, needs, and desires. Our experience
has shown us that this type of care often results in less
use of medication, lower cesarean rates, and improved breastfeeding
rates.
Services
The UNC Family Medicine MCH Program provides the following
services:
- Prenatal Care and Childbirth at UNC Hospital
- Breastfeeding Support
- Well Child Care
- Contraceptive counseling services for men and women.
This includes all forms of contraception such as oral contraceptives,
intrauterine device, diaphragm, natural family planning,
vasectomy, etc.
Questions
about the MCH Program
If you have any questions about our MCH program please call
our Perinatal Nurse Coordinator, Ellen Chetwynd RN at 966-2109
or contact Margaret Helton, MD, MCH Program Director.
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