Vote early and often - for UAB's Women and Infants Center

It's time for a little shameless self promotion.

On the heels of its first anniversary in February, the UAB Women and Infants Center is in the running for some of the Alabama Baby/Birmingham Magazine 2011 Parents' Choice Awards and needs your help -- vote the center and its physicians as the best in Birmingham.

Click here and go to the ballot. You can select UAB and its doctors for:

• Best fertility specialist
• Best obstetrician
• Best gynecologist
• Best hospital to have a baby
• Best birthing suite
• Best NICU

The survey will be online until March 7. If you need help with a doctor's or practice name, go to www.uabmedicine.org/women. All of the information you need -- and a virtual tour of the center if you haven't seen it -- is at your finger tips.

And if you need a little help remembering why the center and its physicians are the best in Birmingham, here are a few hints:

• Newest, most technologically advanced center for obstetric, gynecologic and newborn care

• Only all-private room NICU with sleep space allowing parents to room in with even the sickest babies who are cared for by doctors helping write the national standards for preemie care

• Three full-time and three part-time board-certified lactation consultants and all nurses are trained breastfeeding educators

• Only hospital with certified high risk pregnancy experts on premises 24/7; not to mention it's one of the top high risk pregnancy programs in the country

• Infertility specialists with access to the latest clinical trials and the newest fertility treatments

• Hotel-like room service meals with offerings created by renowned chef Frank Stitt