Celebrating 1,990 baby births
UC Davis Health’s Labor and Delivery team delivered their highest number of babies born at UC Davis Children’s Hospital during fiscal year 2024–2025. This achievement marks the most deliveries since 2010.
Children’s Hospital Annual Report
Year in review: 2024-2025
Specialties
Maternal-Fetal Care
“We couldn’t have asked for a better outcome. UC Davis took great care of us. We are blessed and grateful.”
– Kayleen Delgado, who delivered naturally conceived quadruplets.
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Medical Center redesignated Baby-Friendly Hospital
UC Davis Medical Center has been officially redesignated as a Baby-Friendly Hospital, following a rigorous review by Baby-Friendly USA. The honor demonstrates continued adherence to the highest breastfeeding standards of care, built on practices consistent with the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding and compliant with the World Health Organization’s International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.
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Volunteer doula program
UC Davis Medical Center’s free volunteer doula program offers laboring patients a dedicated doula who provides 1:1 emotional support and non-pharmacologic pain interventions through labor and delivery.
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Unique Fetal Care and Treatment Center
The UC Davis Fetal Care and Treatment Center, led by Payam Saadai, M.D., and Amelia McLennan, M.D., offers prenatal diagnosis, fetalscopic and open fetal surgery to treat conditions before birth. We are currently our region’s only center for on-site fetal surgery, and are proud to be one of a limited number of U.S. hospitals to offer these services for families facing conditions such as twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome and spina bifida.
