birthing center

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According to the March of Dimes, the maternal health nonprofit, seven million women of childbearing age reside in counties where there is no hospital-based obstetric care, no birthing center, no obstetrician-gynecologist and no certified nurse midwife, or where those services are at least a 30-minute drive away.

From New York Times

Jade Godbolt, of Dallas, had her second child at a birthing center in 2021, partly to avoid hospital risks of COVID-19 and to experience a more natural environment.

From Seattle Times

A former labor and delivery nurse from Boston, Mitchell wants to open Birth Sanctuary Gainesville, a free-standing birthing center for those who don’t want to have their child in a hospital.

From Washington Post

She says that she was left out of Mr. Reeves’s plan to promote pregnancy resource centers because she is not in the anti-abortion movement, and is irritated at her congressman, Representative Bennie Thompson, a Democrat, for not securing federal dollars to fulfill her plan of turning Sisters in Birth into a full-fledged birthing center where women could deliver their babies.

From New York Times

Having recently experienced childbirth was another personal connection Patel had with Jeevan, who finds himself in a makeshift birthing center in Episode 9, where he learns to deliver babies.

From Los Angeles Times