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birthing center

[bur-thing sen-ter] / ˈbɜr θɪŋ ˌsɛn tər /
NOUN
delivery room
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Inpatient hospice facilities have the atmosphere of a bed-and-breakfast, or a birthing center, but for the dying.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2025

The same happened at Forks Community Hospital on the Olympic Peninsula last December, about 60 miles from the nearest hospital birthing center in Port Angeles, though the hospital is working to restaff the unit.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2023

Beverly — the reserved, compassionate one who wears her hair back — wants to “change the way women birth, forever” by opening a revolutionary birthing center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

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 ● Aug. 25, 2022

Even if he weren’t, he’d been born in a birthing center, not a hospital, so there was no chance of an accidental baby swapping.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman


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