Bozeman Health Women’s Services Caring for Your Physical and Mental Health During Pregnancy

At Bozeman Health, the approach to your pregnancy care is comprehensive. The Women’s Specialists Clinic and Family Birth Center teams work cohesively with you from prenatal care and labor to delivery and the postpartum period. They provide you with a medical home for your pregnancy and birth journey, with a focus on whole-person care.

Bozeman Health has a Behavioral Health team that is integrated within the Women’s Specialists Clinic. OB nurse navigators meet with every patient to provide education, genetic testing information and connection to crucial resources to set you up for success. Postpartum care after delivery includes prioritizing skin-to-skin contact after birth and 24-hour rooming in, where mother and baby stay together. Lactation consultants offer feeding assistance in the hospital and outpatient visits if needed.

Mental health support, connection to counselors and community support groups are offered to parents who have experienced a pregnancy loss.

Last year, Bozeman Health was awarded a grant through the Montana Healthcare Foundation’s Meadowlark Initiative program. Women’s Specialists have been participating in the Meadowlark Initiative program since 2019. Meadowlark offers grant funding to OB medical teams to help build behavioral health support and connection to resources into routine prenatal and postpartum care.

“I’m honored to work in a program that is supported by the Meadowlark grant. We are on the prevention side of health care; we set patients up for the best possible outcomes at the start of their pregnancy and help them to prepare for their little one before they’re born,” said Shaina, OB nurse navigator.

The Behavioral Health team provides therapy services along with coordinating access to services like housing and insurance. Mothers in this program meet with the Behavioral Health team for checkpoints throughout pregnancy and the team tailors a treatment plan unique to each patient.

“Everything changes when you’re pregnant,” says Becky Derzay, Women’s Specialists nursing and operations manager, “it’s important to address social and mental [health] needs, in addition to medical needs.”

To learn more about women's services at Bozeman Health, visit Women's Health | Bozeman Health.