Prenatal Testing

The Prenatal Testing Center at Millard Fillmore Suburban offers a full range of pregnancy related testing and is staffed by faculty members of the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine. The focus of the unit is outpatient consultation, ultrasound, fetal surveillance, and limited perinatal procedures.

Services available include:

• Routine OB Ultrasound
• Cervical Length
• Non-stress Testing
• Biophysical Profile
• Perinatal Consultation
• High risk pregnancy (consultation and co-management)
• Diabetic pregnancy (co-management, insulin therapy and glucose monitoring)
• Doppler Ultrasound (umbilical artery, middle cerebral artery, and uterine arteries)
• Fetal Echocardiography
• Fetal Cardiology (congenital heart disease, fetal arrhythmias, cardiac tumors)
• Genetic Ultrasound
• Genetic Amniocentesis
• Lung Maturity Amniocentesis
• External Cephalic Version
• 3-D and 4-D capability for fetal images
• Nuchal Fold Translucency

Prenatal Testing Hours: Monday-Friday  8am-4pm

Education Classes

Prior to birth, educational classes on childbirth, breastfeeding, birthing basics, baby basics and sibling classes are offered.

Obstetrics 

The Labor and Delivery Unit of Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital delivers more babies than any other hospital in western New York and is staffed by midwives and attending physicians with 24-hour anesthesiology coverage. Experienced, caring RNs care for mothers in labor as well as provide outpatient triage of pregnant women. Each laboring woman can have two support people during their labor and delivery. For friends and family, there are two comfortable waiting rooms.

The Mother-Baby Unit is a 20 room unit with private rooms offered to all patients.  Semi-privates are also available upon request.  A neonatal nurse practitioner is on duty 24 hours a day for stabilization of the newborn.  Following birth, education classes are offered daily for bathing and lactation, with lactation services available 12 hours per day, 7 days per week.  All of the nurses on the Mother Baby Unit are specially trained in lactation to meet the new mom’s needs day or night.  Support and guidance for bottle-feeding mothers and their newborns are also offered.

Lactation Department

Much has been written about the health benefits a child receives from breastfeeding.  Lower incidents of gastro-intestinal problems, ear infections and some childhood cancers, as well as higher IQ are just a few that are attributed to breast milk. 

Studies have also indicated that breastfeeding can reduce the mother's risk of premenopausal breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and osteoporosis.

But while it would appear that breastfeeding is a natural process, most women need assistance and guidance in order to successfully breastfeed.  At Millard Fillmore Suburban, we have an expert staff to do just that.

Our Lactation Consultants are dedicated to helping you successfully breastfeed and bond with your infant.  They are registered nurses who are available on the mother-baby unit 12 hours per day, 7 days per week.  They also offer a prenatal breastfeeding class that familiarizes the expectant parents with the process of milk production, the benefits of breastfeeding, and the feeding and behavioral patterns of the breastfed newborn.  Registration for this class is made through the Childbirth Education Department.

Neonatology

Newborns that require neonatal care include but are not limited to infants born prematurely, born with low birth weight (intrauterine growth retardation), or born with congenital malformations (birth defects).

A specially trained neonatal nurse practitioner is on duty at Millard Fillmore Suburban 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide the specialized support these infants need.

Postpartum Depression

Up to 80% of women experience the "baby blues" within two weeks of delivery.  Symptoms can include crying, sadness, worry or fatigue.  This is quite normal and usually resolves itself.  If it doesn’t, it is important to get help and support as soon as possible.

Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital provides a postpartum depression support group from 7-8pm on the second Thursday of every month, in it’s Cancer Care Conference Room. If you are experiencing severe depression please contact your physician immediately.

You can also contact one of the following:
Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital  (716) 568-3628/6653
ECMC  (716) 898-3465
Crisis Services (716) 834-3131 (24 hour hotline)