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Birthmark Family CenterEmpowering Women Through Positive Birth Experiences
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The Birth Center Difference:• Personal Attention
• Holistic Program
• Comprehensive Midwifery Care
• Nurturing Place
• Integrated Part of the Health Care System
Birth Centers invite you to receive personalized, family-centered care
from holistic, professional, health care providers.
Personal Attention
Birth Centers are:
Birth Centers are:People working together with you to meet your needsduring pregnancy, birth, and early parenting
Birth Centers are:
For healthy women seeking personalcare and families wanting to be involved
Birth centers include a team of highly qualified professionalsfrom:
• midwifery• nursing• obstetrics• family medicine• pediatrics• nutrition• social work• physical fitness• childbirth
and parenting education
Birth Center care begins with your first prenatal visit.
It is a program of education for pregnancy, nutrition, birth, labor support, baby care, and general women’s health.
Holistic Program
You are welcome to invite your family and friends to participate in your Birth Center care.
The Birth Center program:
• Gives you confidencein your ability to give birth
• Balances human touch and technology
Most importantly, the Birth Center program gives you the time that you deserve.
Time to listen to and answer your questions
Time to help you, your new baby, and your family get off to the best possible start
Midwifery care is provided by professionally trained midwives or doctors,
who practice a wellnessand holistic approachto pregnancy, birth, and women's health care.
Comprehensive Midwifery Care
Midwifery is different from obstetrics.
Midwives believe that:
• Childbirth is normal
• You and your family create the birth experience that will be meaningful to you
• midwives• nurses• obstetricians• pediatricians• other specialists
as needed
Midwifery is a collaborativepractice that involves:
Midwifery honors and respects:
• the sacrednessof pregnancy and birth
• the wisdomand dignity of all women
Nurturing Place
Here you are supported and respected as well as safe and secure.
Birth Centers are a place that gives you a caring, warm and home-like environment.
You will have a private roomfor giving birth where you can:
• Make yourself comfortable
• Wear your own clothing
• Soak in a tub or have a water birth
• Eat when you feel hungry
You can decide who will be with you, or near you, as you give birth.
Birth centers welcome your children, your parents, and friends.
• Continuing support
Birth centers give you:
• Holistic pain management
• Information on:• Infant care• Breastfeeding• Parenting• Family planning
Integrated Part of the
Health Care System
Integrated Part of the
Health Care System
Birth Centers are part of the system of quality health care in many communities.
• Laboratory, ultrasounds, and other diagnostic women's testing
You receive a completenetwork of maternity and health services, including:
• Consultation with physicians as necessary
• Transfer to a hospital if the need should arise
Birth Center care is covered by most major health insurance plans.
Birth Centers are:
Accreditation for Birth Centers is based upon carefully defined national standards.
BirthCenter Standards
• licensed by individual states
• accredited by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers
Look for the CABC accreditation seal.
Birth Centers give you Care that is:
• Founded on the highest standards
• Respectful
• Safe and supported by research.
• Sensitive
• Accessible well woman care for you now and in the years to come.
• Time• Choices• Education• Support• Services
The Birth Center offers you more. . .
American Association of Birth Centers3123 Gottschall Road, Perkiomenville, PA 18704
Call Toll Free: 866-54-BIRTH (24784) or 215-234-8068
www.BirthCenters.org
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504-457-8332
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