Birth Center Benefits
- A relaxed and home-like, not clinical atmosphere.
- Maximum privacy and personal space.
- A safe birthing environment.
- You can wear your own clothes.
- A compromise between home birth and hospital birth for families who feel nervous about home birth.
- Extras like birthing tubs and labor tools such as music and birthing balls.
- You’ll be encouraged to walk, eat and rest as needed which encourages an easier labor.
- Most have a kitchen area so your family can cook.
- Birth centers have an episiotomy rate of 12%. Hospitals have a typical episiotomy rate of 90%.
- You’ll be encouraged to labor in positions that are comfortable for you.
- No forced and constant monitoring.
- Cesarean rates at birth centers are 1/2 the rates of cesareans in low-risk hospital births.
- Breastfeeding is encouraged immediately at birth centers.
- Routine enemas, IVs and other invasive birth interventions are rare.
- Rooming in is the norm, meaning babies and mamas are not separated after the birth.
- It’s estimated that if 100,00 births were attended in birth centers, annual savings may be up to $314 million.
The real proof of a successful business is in the return business, which birth centers get. The American Association of Birth Centers notes that 98.8% percent of women who use a birth center would recommend it to friends and/or return to the center for their next birth.
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