In traditional hospital births, the room in which the child is actually born, to which a woman is normally transferred from a labor room. In look and furniture, a delivery room is much like an operating room, which has the advantage of having medical equipment readily at hand, should they be needed if complications develop during childbirth. But many people in recent decades have found the delivery room cold and forbidding, so (except for high-risk pregnancy) some have preferred to give birth in a more homey maternity center, a hospital-attached birthing room, or at home.
A room equipped for giving care to the obstetric patient during delivery, and for first care to the newborn infant.
A room to which an obstetrical patient may be taken for childbirth.