Obstetrics - Low risk maternity services

 

Birth center birth

The major difference between freestanding birth centers and hospital birth centers is that hospitals create policies to care for people who are sick, while freestanding birth centers design programs for healthy pregnant women. Also, freestanding birth centers are based on the midwifery model of care that approaches pregnancy and birth as a normal family event until proven otherwise. Freestanding birth centers offer the personal yet comprehensive care that every expectant mother and her family deserve.

 

A freestanding birth center is a homelike, out-of-hospital facility where a woman's choices in pregnancy and birth are supported and respected. This birth center meets all local, state, and federal health, fire and safety regulations and is licensed by the Connecticut Department of Health. Women can feel safe and secure in the fact that midwives and consulting physicians work together as part of a unified system of quality healthcare. Most of all a birth center provides a program of care that gives a woman confidence in her ability to give birth, balancing her need for human touch and companionship with her potential need for technology and medical intervention.

 

We physicians and midwives of Women’s Health Associates are the exclusive providers of care at the Connecticut Childbirth & Women’s Center. We are extremely proud of what we have accomplished: the only freestanding birthing center in the region. We attract birthing mothers from as far away as Westchester County in New York and all parts of Connecticut.