Suite Beginnings Family Birthplace offers you and your baby a caring and homelike atmosphere in a safe, professional hospital setting. >>photos

When you choose to have your baby in one of our eight birthing suites, you'll find them warmly decorated with enough space for you and your family through labor, birth, and the post-birth stay.

At Suite Beginnings, your birth experience is unique to you. You decide who can be at the birth of your baby, whether it's the father, your parents, brothers and sisters, or anyone else who is important to you.

When you have your baby at Rice:

• You have highly trained and qualified nurses to look after you and your baby. They have years of experience meeting the special needs of new moms and their babies. They provide you and your baby with expert care.
• You have your own birthing suite that is spacious, private and peaceful.
• Relax in your in-room whirlpool tub.
• You even have internet access to send new photos and e-announcements, or search for just the right baby name.

It's a Girl!

Meet Lacey Larson and her daughter, Cassidy Anne, who was born at Rice on June 28, 2010 at 5:28 pm. She weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces, and was 21 inches long. Lacey works at Rice Memorial Hospital. She and husband, Jason, are also the parents of two boys, Dylan and Wyatt.

All of the comforts of home

As a new parent in Suite Beginnings, you'll find many of those little extras that make your stay with us so special.

For instance, you receive a complementary gift bag filled with goodies.

One nurse takes care of both you and your baby.

You see your baby as often as you wish - your new baby stays in your room with you.

Mackenzie, Daniel, or Daisy?

Looking for the perfect name for your baby?
Here are the names that other moms and dads, whose babies were born at Rice, chose for their little ones:

Rice Memorial Hospital welcomed 823 babies into the world during 2009.
Click here to see a list of their given names.

Rice Memorial Hospital welcomed 859 babies into the world during 2008.
Click here to see a list of their given names.

Meet Talan Brendan, the first baby born at Rice Hospital in 2010

Welcome to the world, beautiful baby boy, Talan Brendan. He was the first baby born at Rice in 2010.

He is the first child born to Megan and Christopher Canatsey of Granite Falls, MN.

He entered the world at 2:08 am on January 2, 2010, weighing 7 pounds, 10 ounces, at 21 inches long.

Resources

See more photos of your birthing suite
and Rice Memorial Hospital.

Find a local family practice physician.

Find a local pediatrician.

Find a local obstetrician.

Baby Lauren Grace

Meet Kris Kok, Rice Hospital RN, and her daughter, Lauren Grace, who was born September 10, 2008, at Rice Memorial Hospital. "One thing that I really liked about having our baby in a birthing suite is that I got to stay in the same room the whole time," says Kris. "The room was large and the whirlpool was great. Our out-of-town friends and family were very impressed with the room and the unit as a whole."