Coming to your appointment at UI Stead Family Children's Hospital
![UI Stead Family Children's Hospital UI Stead Family Children's Hospital](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/hospital_exterior.jpg.webp?itok=38bZJ3mu)
This is what the children's hospital looks like.​ Kids come here for many different things.
![Parking Ramp 2 Parking Ramp 2's entrance](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/ramp_2_entrance.jpg.webp?itok=34rYUGn6)
We can park in the underground parking ramp or ​get out of our car at the front door.
![Cars parked inside Parking Ramp 2](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/inside_ramp2.jpg.webp?itok=6VynJtVV)
This is what we will see inside the parking ramp.​
![Parking Ramp 2 looking into the elevator bay](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/2022-09/Parking-Area-of-ram-into-elevator-bay-ramp2.jpg.webp?itok=nPDCU14i)
We go through doors to get to the elevator when we leave our car in the parking ramp.​
![Elevator in Parking Ramp 2](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/parking_ramp_elevator.jpg.webp?itok=FpsGaTcE)
This is the elevator in the ramp. We will take it to the entrance of the hospital.
![Gerdin Family Lobby Gerdin Family Lobby](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/gerdin_lobby.jpg.webp?itok=Tq5lX05F)
We check in at the desk in the lobby before we go to our appointment.​
![Elevator doors inside UI Stead Family Children's Hospital](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/elevator_bank.jpg.webp?itok=Gpl8i-v9)
We take another elevator to go to our appointment in the hospital.
![Mother and her child inside an elevator at UI Stead Family Children's Hospital](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/inside_elevator_mom_child.jpg.webp?itok=P_pQ4CNQ)
We take another elevator to go to our appointment in the hospital.
![Mother and her child check in at the front desk.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/check_in.jpg.webp?itok=45xx2XIB)
We check in at the desk.​
![Mother and her child wait in the waiting room](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/waiting_room.jpg.webp?itok=sXZqOiHj)
We wait in the waiting room until the nurse is ready to see me.
![Child hugs a stuffed monkey toy while sitting with their mother in a waiting room](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/special_monkey.jpg.webp?itok=dVA0SlhL)
Today I brought my special monkey with me.
![Nurse calling a patient's name](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/nurse_greeting.jpg.webp?itok=OIx3OZ4f)
The nurse calls my name.
![Mother and her child walk with a nurse](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/child_mom_walk_nurse.jpg.webp?itok=fVm6u56e)
We walk with her.
![Child wearing socks stands next to their shoes](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/shoe_removal.jpg.webp?itok=JRR7IBrx)
I take my shoes off for my weight and height.​
![Nurse measures a child's weight on a scale](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/weighing_child.jpg.webp?itok=sI2bGweL)
The nurse weighs me.
![Nurse measures a child's height](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/measuring_height_child.jpg.webp?itok=Zy0yH-sH)
Then the nurse measures how tall I am.
![Mother, her child, and the nurse walk down a hallway](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/finding_room.jpg.webp?itok=IX9Z2yWm)
We find my room.
![Mother, her child, and nurse enter a hospital room](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/entering_room.jpg.webp?itok=6j7adx8H)
I see my bed and some things the nurse will use to take care of me.
![Mother and child wait in a hospital room](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/waiting_in_hospital_room.jpg.webp?itok=nIJaIIgV)
My family can sit with me.
![Medical equipment monitor in a hospital room](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/hospital_room_monitor.jpg.webp?itok=yXtIvfEb)
My nurse may use a monitor to see how I am doing.
![Nurse checks a child's temperature](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/temperature_check.jpg.webp?itok=zXH6ccEL)
The nurse checks my temperature in my ear.​
![Child wearing a pulse monitor in a hospital bed](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/finger_monitor_child.jpg.webp?itok=0xyebKEL)
The nurse puts a red light on my finger. ​It does not hurt me.
![Nurse puts a blood pressure cuff on a child's arm](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/blood_pressure_cuff.jpg.webp?itok=54c1kbeP)
The nurse puts a cuff on my arm.
![Child wearing a blood pressure cuff](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/child_blood_pressure_cuff.jpg.webp?itok=cLJt195S)
The cuff checks my blood pressure.
![Child wearing hospital pajamas with their mom and a nurse](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/change_hospital_pajamas.jpg.webp?itok=EYS94BZi)
I may change into hospital pajamas.
![Child laying in a hospital bed](/sites/default/files/styles/max_height_800/public/uichildrens_org/hospital_bed.jpg.webp?itok=u1Wf6Jr0)
I will sit on the bed.