Integrated Delivery Room

The labor room is one of the most versatile rooms in a hospital. It is called a labor, delivery, and recovery room (LDR). This is the type of room that some hospitals and almost all birth centers use for their care. Once you are placed in a room, this is the room that you will use for your labor and birth, including the initial hours of recovery.

Overview
The LDR is designed for nearly all births. It can handle a birth for women choosing to go unmedicated or those who wish to have an epidural. The vast majority of these rooms can also handle minor emergencies and procedures including forceps and vacuum deliveries. You would only need to leave this room if you needed to go to the operating room for a cesarean or the high potential of a cesarean (such as in the cases of twin births or a vaginal breech birth attempt).
Once the baby is born, there is equipment in the room to handle newborn care as well. While the immediate care of the newborn is best handled via skin to skin with the mother, if there were an emergency or the need for specialized equipment, the average LDR room is prepared with a warmer for the baby and life-saving resuscitation equipment. You stay in this room for the first hour or two after you give birth, then transferred to a postpartum room.

LDRP Rooms
Some facilities also offer what is called a Labor, Delivery, Recovery, and Postpartum (LDRP) room. In the LDRP, you will give birth here and your baby will stay with you until you are ready to go home. Many of these facilities use the nursery only for babies who are ill, rather than for well newborn care.
As with the LDR, the LDRP is equipped to handle only vaginal births. You can have an epidural or other pain medication in this room if they are available at your place of birth. And, if you are in a hospital and require it, you may also have a forceps or vacuum delivery in the vast majority of LDRP rooms. If you require a c-section at the hospital, you will generally not recover in the LDR or the LDRP, even if you labored in one. This may depend on space and the number of people on shift.

Taking a Hospital Tour
When you take your hospital tour before you give birth, be sure to ask about the rooms where you will give birth. Your hospital may also have a combination of rooms, meaning some people will get a special room and others won’t. This may be first-come-first-served or it may be by special request.

Configuration and layout of delivery room equipment
The new mode of delivery care should not be transported in several different rooms at the time of childbirth, reducing the disinfection work of the room, without the equipment to repeat the purchase, and saving the working time. The main equipment of the L.D.R. room is an integrated multi-function electromotive machine, which can be made from a number of positions (including seat, squat, side type) to the childbirth. If you want to transfer, the bed can be transferred to the operation room quickly. After delivery, the bed is also an upscale electric nursing bed. It can also provide training function to help pregnant women and pregnant women to perform necessary midwifery and rehabilitation training. The room is equipped with other main equipment: Baby rescue table, fetal monitor, special production lamp, baby bed, full set of surgical equipment, first aid equipment, in case of pregnant women, the doctor can be rescued in time. There is a warm and delicate suite next to the delivery room, which can be used for family rest, with high grade sofa, liquid crystal TV, water purification device, refrigerator, broadband network and so on. The layout of L.D.R. room is generally composed of three functional areas: family area (Family), clinical area (clinical) and supporting area.