What is a Birth Center
This type of provider typically leads maternity care in a birth center
What is a Midwife
True or False: Birth centers are safe for EVERYONE
What is false
The top concern that people have about birth centers
What is safety
Midwives do not have formal training
What is a Myth
To develop relationship and time for holistic care, appointments are typically this
What is longer (30-60 minutes)
Birth centers support this type of birth process
What is physiologic birth
The required fetal position to birth at a birth center
What is head down
Lower rates of this surgery result from birth center led care
What is a cesarean (C-section)
Birth centers only support unmedicated births
What is a Fact
To encourage energy and comfort, this is encouraged during labor
What is eating and drinking
Families bring their music and other personal effects to add to this type of birth center environment
What is a home-like
The maximum number of babies in your belly to give birth at a birth center
What is one
The primary driver of safety in birth center care
What is screening for low-risk clients
A Transfer equals Failure
What is a Myth
This protects autonomy by ensuring decisions are made with full knowledge of risks and benefits
What is informed consent
This term describes planned childbirth that occurs outside of a hospital, including in a freestanding birth center
What is community birth
Families desiring this method of scheduled checks with a Doppler or fetoscope to monitor babies during labor
What is intermittent fetal monitoring (not continuous)
This happens if a higher level of care is needed during pregnancy or labor
What is a transfer of care
Birth centers are less safe than hospitals
What is a Myth
This birth center practice centers around the use of a warm tub to promote comfort during labor, and in some cases, delivery
What is water birth/water immersion
This type of licensed medical facility offers a comfortable environment for labor and birth, outside of a hospital
What is a Birth Center
This candidate for birth center care typically has no chronic medical conditions that would increase risk during labor or delivery
Who is a low-risk client (healthy pregnant person)
This evidence-based finding shows that birth centers are as safe as hospitals for low-risk pregnancies, with fewer interventions
What is comparable (or similar) maternal and neonatal outcomes
Birth center clients have no flexibility in pain management and must avoid all medical interventions
What is myth
This hallmark of birth center care emphasizes continuous support from the same small team of providers throughout pregnancy, labor, and postpartum.
What is continuity of care