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Having a baby at a birthing centre
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When you find out you're pregnant, you will need to think about where you'd like to have your baby. There are many options, including a birthing centre. This page explains more about birthing centres, which approach pregnancy and birth as healthy life events.
Why a birthing centre, not a hospital?
There are many advantages to a birthing centre. They are usually more home-like than hospitals and are run by midwives. Generally, you will have your own room, with a double bed and ensuite bathroom. In some centres, water birth is an option.
In many birthing centres, the same group of midwives look after you throughout your pregnancy and birth and for a while after the baby is born.
Birthing centres only take women who have a low risk pregnancy — this means that you and your baby are healthy and the birth is expected to be straightforward.
There are some private birthing centres, but most are located either within a public hospital or close to it.
During labour, you are encouraged to move around and find your own position for birth. You can have people of your choice around you, and some birthing centres allow children to be with you.
But there are disadvantages, too.
Birthing centres aim for minimal medical intervention, so there are fewer pain relief options than in hospital. Gas and some drugs might be available, but the midwives are more likely to ask you to use relaxation, moving around, water and other forms of natural pain relief. If you decide you need an epidural, you will be transferred to the hospital's labour ward.
And even though the midwives are trained to manage emergencies, most birthing centres will transfer you to hospital if an unexpected medical issue arises during pregnancy or birth.
There is the chance that you might not be eligible. The birthing centre will decide whether you qualify as having a low-risk pregnancy.
Booking in
If you would like to have your baby in a birthing centre, talk with your midwife or doctor and check whether there is one in your area. Each is different: you may require a referral, or be able to refer yourself.
Birthing centres are usually in demand, so it’s a good idea to book in as soon as your pregnancy is confirmed.
Your first appointment with a doctor or midwife is usually around 10 to 16 weeks into your pregnancy. At this time, you can also talk about prenatal classes run through the birthing centre.
Antenatal care
Birthing centres generally provide the standard antenatal care, either through the centre or through the hospital that they are attached to.
How much does it cost?
Most birthing centres are publicly funded and the cost is generally covered by Medicare. However, it is a good idea to ask about any additional costs.
Some private hospitals also offer birthing suites, which can accommodate you and your partner. In this case you can choose an obstetrician to deliver your baby.
After you have your baby
After birth, the midwives will help you with feeding and caring for your baby. If everything is going well, you may be sent home early, sometimes within 6 hours of giving birth or you may stay a night or two.
Before you leave, a doctor will check your baby. A midwife or early childhood nurse may visit you at home in the following weeks.
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You can call Pregnancy, Birth and Baby, 7 days a week on 1800 882 436 to speak with a maternal child health nurse to find out more.
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Birth Choices (Birth centre), Birth Choices (Managing pain in labour at birth centre), North Shore Private Hospital (North Shore Private Hospital Maternity), Pregnancy to Parenting Australia (Birth Centre), Queensland Government (Birthing centres and midwives), WA Health Department (Having a baby at the Family Birth Centre - King Edward Memorial Hospital)Learn more here about the development and quality assurance of healthdirect content.
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Birthing Centers and Hospital Maternity Services (for Parents)
You'll make plenty of decisions during pregnancy, and choosing whether to give birth in a hospital or a birth center is an important one.
Giving Birth at a Hospital
Traditional hospital births are still the most common option. This means the mother-to-be moves from a labor room to a delivery room and then, after the birth, to a semiprivate room.
In a hospital birth:
- Pain medicines are available during labor and delivery, if a woman wants them.
- Labor can be induced, if necessary.
- The baby is usually electronically monitored throughout the labor.
Doctors "manage" the delivery with their patients. A birth plan can help a woman communicate her preferences, and her doctor will abide by these as much possible.
Many hospitals now offer more options for low-risk births, often known as family-centered care. These may include private rooms with baths (called birthing suites) where women can labor, deliver, and recover in one place without having to be moved.
A doctor and medical staff are still on hand. But the rooms create a nurturing environment, with warm, soothing colors and features that try to simulate a home-like atmosphere that can be very comforting for new moms. Rooming in — when the baby stays with the mother most of the time instead of in the infant nursery — also is more common.
Many hospitals offer childbirth and prenatal education classes to prepare parents for childbirth and parenting classes for after the birth.
How many people may attend the birth varies from hospital to hospital. In more traditional settings, the limit might be three support people during a vaginal birth. In a family-centered setting, more family members, friends, and sometimes even kids might be allowed. During a routine or nonemergency C-section, usually just one support person is allowed.
A variety of health professionals oversee hospital births:
Obstetrician/gynecologists (OB/GYNs) are doctors with at least 4 more years of training after medical school in women's health and reproduction, including both surgical and medical care. They can handle complicated pregnancies and also do C-sections.
Look for obstetricians who are board-certified, meaning they have passed an examination by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG). Board-certified obstetricians who go on to receive further training in high-risk pregnancies are called maternal-fetal specialists or perinatologists.
If you deliver in a hospital, you also might be able to use a certified nurse-midwife (CNM). CNMs are registered nurses who have a graduate degree in midwifery, meaning they're trained to handle low-risk pregnancies and deliveries. Most CNMs deliver babies in hospitals or birth centers, although some do home births.
Registered nurses (RNs) attend births to take care of the mother and baby. If you give birth in a teaching hospital, medical students or residents might attend the birth. Some family doctors also offer prenatal care and deliver babies.
Anesthesia, if needed, will be administered by an anesthesiologist. A variety of pain-control measures — including pain medicine and local, epidural, and general anesthesia — are available in the hospital setting.
Giving Birth at a Birth Center
Women who deliver in a birth center usually have already given birth without any problems or have a low-risk pregnancy (meaning they are in good health and are not likely to develop complications).
Women are carefully screened early in pregnancy and given prenatal care at the birth center to monitor their health throughout their pregnancy.
Epidural anesthesia usually isn't offered at birth centers. So women are free to move around in labor, get in the positions most comfortable to them, spend time in the jacuzzi, etc. Comfort measures (such as hydrotherapy, massage, warm and cold compresses, and visualization and relaxation techniques) are often used.
A variety of health care professionals work at birth centers, such as registered nurses, CNMs, and doulas (professionally trained providers of labor support and/or postpartum care). A doctor usually isn't on-site and medical interventions are rare. But most birth centers work with obstetric and pediatric consultants as a team. Nurse-midwives provide care during a woman's pregnancy, labor, and delivery. The OB/GYN consultants are available if she develops complications that put her into a higher risk category.
The baby's heart rate is monitored often during labor, typically with a handheld Doppler device. Birth centers do have medical equipment available, such as IV lines and fluids, oxygen for the mother and the infant, and other equipment necessary to treat sick babies and moms.
A birth center can provide natural pain control and pain control with mild narcotic medicines. But if a woman decides she wants an epidural, or develops complications, she must be taken to a hospital.
Birth centers provide a homey birth setting for the mother, baby, and extended family. In most cases, they're freestanding buildings, though some are attached to a hospital. They often include amenities such as private rooms with soft lighting, showers, whirlpool tubs, and a kitchen for the family to use.
Look for a birth center that is accredited by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers (CABC). Some states regulate birth centers, so make sure the birth center you choose has all the proper credentials.
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Which One Is Right for Me?
How do you decide whether a hospital or a birth center is the right choice for you?
Some things to consider:
- If you've chosen a health care provider, find out if he or she can only practice at a particular hospital or birth center.
- Check with your health insurance carrier to see which options are covered. Often, major insurance companies cover accredited birth centers as well as hospitals.
Some risk factors might mean that you're not eligible to deliver in a birth center, such as:
- being older than 35
- carrying multiples
- having gestational diabetes or high blood pressure
- having a breech-positioned baby
And if you want interventions such as an epidural or continuous fetal monitoring, a hospital is probably the better choice for you.
A birth center can be an option for women who:
- don't have significant problems in their medical history
- have a low-risk pregnancy
- want a natural birth with minimal medical intervention or pain control
- want friends or family members there for the birth
To help with your choice, arrange a tour of the hospital or birth center.
This lets you make sure that the staff is friendly and the atmosphere is one in which you'll feel relaxed.
Paid childbirth at EMC in Moscow
Choosing a maternity hospital is a responsible and difficult decision. Today, women have the opportunity to give birth under compulsory medical insurance or choose paid births in a public or private maternity hospital. Paid delivery in a public maternity hospital is usually an opportunity to choose a doctor and an improved postpartum ward.
Private maternity hospitals offer a completely individual approach to childbirth from the moment a woman arrives at the clinic until discharge, including a separate delivery room, family rooms, individual care for a newborn child, assistance to a mother in the postpartum period, and services. In Moscow, there is a private maternity hospital that operates according to international standards - the maternity hospital of the European Medical Center.
When choosing a hospital, there are several important factors to consider:
Conditions of stay in paid maternity hospital
As a rule, the conditions of stay in a paid maternity hospital take into account the needs of mother and child as much as possible.
The woman is in comfortable conditions before and after the birth of the baby.
The maternity hospital of the European Medical Center has created ideal conditions for staying together with a child. It is possible to choose a studio for family accommodation or two-room apartments. The rooms have comfortable baby cots and a changing table. At any time, you can call the sister of the children's department, which will help to carry out hygiene procedures, change the baby's clothes. If the mother immediately after the birth needs to rest and recover, the child at this time is in the neonatal unit in the caring hands of the medical staff.
In individual delivery rooms, everything is also provided for the convenience of a woman in labor: transforming beds, fitballs, a hot tub. At EMC, the mother-to-be can choose the right way to give birth. Free behavior in childbirth is welcome, vertical childbirth or childbirth in water is possible. Comfortable conditions have been created for partner childbirth - there is a separate rest room for the attendant.
You can visit mother and child around the clock.
One of the most important advantages of a private maternity hospital is the opportunity to give the expectant mother as much attention as necessary. Unfortunately, in public maternity hospitals, due to the large flow of women in labor, it is difficult to provide a fully personalized approach.
In the EMC maternity hospital, even during pregnancy, a woman draws up a birth plan together with an obstetrician-gynecologist and expresses her wishes regarding the method of birth, anesthesia and other issues. Some women feel more confident in the environment of medical personnel, someone, on the contrary, prefers minimal medical intervention.
The birth plan is strictly observed in all cases where it does not threaten the health of the mother and child. During childbirth, the doctor informs the woman about each procedure, justifies the need for it, talks about the pros and cons. The final decision is made by the woman in labor, not just the medical staff.
Maternity hospital equipment
When choosing a paid delivery, you must be sure that the maternity hospital is equipped with everything necessary to protect the health of the woman in labor and the newborn child. While most births are natural, the maternity hospital team must be ready to assist in the event of an emergency.
Before visiting the maternity hospital, ask how the delivery room, operating room and intensive care unit, as well as the neonatal intensive care unit are equipped.
The technical equipment of the EMC maternity hospital allows you to provide assistance in a situation of any complexity. Rodboxes are equipped with multifunctional beds, devices for epidural anesthesia and administration of other drugs, ventilators, baby monitors, a baby table for primary examination and oxygen supply if necessary. The children's table is also equipped with a heating lamp that creates a thermal cone over the child in order to minimize stress caused by temperature changes.
The equipment of the delivery room allows, if necessary, to perform an emergency caesarean section on the spot, without wasting time on moving to the operating room.
A big advantage of the EMC operating room is the presence of an autotransfusion device, which allows the patient to transfuse not donor, but his own purified blood in case of blood loss.
After a caesarean section, a woman spends 6 hours in the awakening ward. Comfortable medical transforming beds and thermal blankets create additional comfort after surgery.
The neonatal intensive care unit at EMC is equipped with the latest equipment for nursing low birth weight and premature babies, to help with the complicated course of the early adaptation period. The department has the latest models of neonatal resuscitation systems and incubators for newborns from leading world manufacturers.
EMC Maternity Hospital Doctors
One of the main advantages of paid childbirth is the possibility of individual childbirth by an obstetrician-gynecologist and a midwife.
In public maternity hospitals, a doctor is usually called only when surgery is needed.
When choosing a paid birth, you can be sure that the doctor and midwife will be with you at any moment to provide the necessary assistance. You can also choose your doctor and make a contract with him. In this case, the doctor will come to the clinic when you start giving birth.
Choosing a doctor is one of the most important steps in preparing for childbirth. The EMC maternity hospital employs obstetrician-gynecologists with many years of experience, most of them have headed departments in maternity hospitals at leading multidisciplinary hospitals in Moscow, have experience in managing pregnancy and childbirth in women with concomitant diseases, gynecological and obstetric problems. All doctors have trained abroad and have advanced techniques. The maternity hospital works according to international protocols. The head physician of the maternity hospital is a well-known obstetrician-gynecologist of Moscow, Professor Natalya Kan, a doctor with more than 20 years of experience.
By choosing births with an on-duty team, you can be sure that you will be seen by a highly qualified and experienced doctor with at least 15 years of experience who has attended several thousand births.
If you are planning a birth with anesthesia or you are going to have a planned cesarean section, it is advisable to meet with an anesthesiologist before the birth, talk about concomitant diseases, allergic reactions, previous surgeries, choose the type of anesthesia. All EMC anesthesiologists have experience in obstetrics. This is extremely important because an experienced anesthesiologist knows exactly when to administer the drug in order to minimize side effects and its effect on labor.
The EMC maternity hospital conducts individual excursions, during which you have the opportunity to inspect the wards, the maternity unit in advance, get acquainted not only with the obstetrician-gynecologist, but also with the midwife, anesthesiologist, neonatologist, ask all your questions about childbirth and caring for the baby.
In addition, you can enroll in courses for pregnant women at the School for Expectant Mothers.
When choosing a paid delivery, it is very important to pay attention to how the contract is drawn up. In EMC, the cost of paid births includes childbirth with a doctor, midwife and anesthetist, stay up to 5 days, all medical services, including emergency assistance in childbirth if necessary. The cost of childbirth does not depend on the type of delivery (natural childbirth or caesarean section).
What does a woman in labor need during paid childbirth?
“What to bring with you to childbirth” is a question every expectant mother asks herself. When choosing to give birth at EMC, you don't have to worry about how to pack a bag for the maternity hospital - we will provide everything you need. For a baby: a diaper, a warm blanket, a bodysuit, a hat, a pacifier, diapers, children's cosmetics specially selected by pediatricians. Mom: nursing shirt, bathrobe, slippers, nursing pillow, breast pads and other hygiene products.
If you are going to give birth at EMC, you can only take your passport with you.
If you wish, you can order additional services: photo and video shooting, services of a stylist and a manicure and pedicure master, organization of a holiday for discharge. We will make sure that the birth of your baby becomes a real holiday.
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The first thing you have to do on the eve of childbirth is to choose a maternity hospital where your baby will be born.
