birth center
Midwife's workplace option
A birth center is a healthcare facility designed for childbirth outside a hospital setting, typically staffed by midwives and emphasizing low-intervention births.
Birth centers offer a more home-like environment than hospital labor wards while providing medical equipment for emergencies: She chose a birth center for a more natural delivery.
Most are freestanding, though some operate within hospitals.
- midwifeChildbirth assistance professional
- doulaTrained childbirth support person
- labor coachChildbirth support person
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- labor roomChildbirth medical space
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- pregnancypregnancy, pregnant, prenatal care, due date, weeks
- Prenatal Educationprenatal education, prenatal classes, prenatal class, childbirth classes, childbirth education
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