Patient Care Services

Pre-Registration/Admission to Maternity

Pre-registration makes coming in a breeze
Your obstetrician will give you a pre-registration fform for Greenwich Hospital early in your pregnancy. Please bring your completed form and your insurance card to our Admitting Office about four months before your due date. The Admitting Office is located just off the Atrium Lobby and its hours of operation are 8am-10pm, seven days a week.

What you should bring

For the mom
Nightgowns and nursing bras, robe and slippers
Toiletries and cosmetics
Lamaze recommended items
Watch or travel clock
Camera and film (Still cameras can be used in the Delivery Suite, but video cameras are not allowed. Videos may be taken in the Nursery and Postpartum Units.)
Address book and stationery

Please do not bring jewelry and other valuables. It is requested you do not bring a cellular phone. Each room has its own telephone.

For the baby
Car seat (Please bring to the hospital the day the baby goes home.)
Receiving blankets, undershirt, diapers and clothes to go home, appropriate for the weather

When you come to the hospital
When the time comes for your baby's birth, after you have spoken with your obstetrician and have been advised to come to the hospital, use the Emergency Room entrance. There will be no delay in admitting you, since you have pre-registered. You will first be settled into one of our beautiful new labor and delivery rooms on the third floor. Your vital signs and the baby's heartbeat will be assessed. Any other admission information will also be taken. If your husband or another support person will participate in the birth, he or she will be asked to change into hospital attire prior to delivery.