1. Birthmark Family Center
Empowering Women Through Positive Birth Experiences
BirthmarkDoulas.com

2. The Birth Center Differen
• Personal Attention
• Holistic Program
• Comprehensive Midwifery Care
• Nurturing Place
• Integrated Part of the
Health Care System

3. Birth Centers
invite you to receive
personalized,
family-centered care
from
holistic, professional,
health care providers.
Personal Attention

4. Birth Centers are:
Birth Centers are:
People working
together with you to
meet your needs
during
pregnancy, birth, and
early parenting

5. Birth Centers are:
For healthy women
seeking personal
care and families
wanting to be
involved

6. Birth centers include a
team of highly
qualified professionals
from:
• midwifery
• nursing
• obstetrics
• family medicine
• pediatrics
• nutrition
• social work
• physical fitness
• childbirth
and parenting
education

7. Birth Center care
begins with your
first prenatal visit.
It is a program of
education for
pregnancy, nutrition, birt
h, labor support, baby
care, and general
women’s health.
Holistic Program

8. You are welcome
to invite your
family and friends
to participate in
your Birth Center
care.

9. The Birth Center program:
•Gives you confidence
in your ability to
give birth
•Balances
human touch and
technology

10. Most importantly,
the Birth Center
program gives you
the time that you
deserve.
Time to listen to
and answer your
questions

11. Time to help
you, your new
baby, and your
family get off to
the best possible
start

12. Midwifery care is
provided by
professionally trained
midwives or doctors,
who practice a wellness
and holistic approach
to pregnancy, birth,
and women's health
care.
Comprehensive Midwifery Ca
Midwifery is different from obstetrics.

13. Midwives believe that:
•Childbirth is
normal
•You and your
family create the
birth experience
that will be
meaningful to you

14. •midwives
•nurses
•obstetricians
•pediatricians
•other specialists
as needed
Midwifery is a
collaborative
practice that
involves:

15. Midwifery honors and
respects:
• the sacredness
of pregnancy
and birth
• the wisdom
and dignity of
all women

16. Nurturing Place
Here you are
supported and
respected as well as
safe and secure.
Birth Centers are a
place that gives you
a caring, warm and
home-like
environment.

17. You will have a private room
for giving birth where you can:
• Make yourself comfortable
• Wear your own clothing
• Soak in a tub or have a
water birth
• Eat when you feel hungry

18. You can decide who will
be with you,
or near you,
as you give birth.
Birth centers welcome
your children, your
parents, and friends.

19. • Continuing support
Birth centers give you:
• Holistic pain
management
• Information on:
• Infant care
• Breastfeeding
• Parenting
• Family planning

20. Integrated Part of the
Health Care System
Integrated Part of the
Health Care System
Birth Centers are part
of the system of
quality health care
in many communities.

21. • Laboratory,
ultrasounds, and
other diagnostic
women's testing
You receive a complete
network of maternity
and health
services, including:
• Consultation with
physicians as
necessary
• Transfer to a hospital
if the need should
arise

22. Birth Center care is
covered by most
major health
insurance plans.

23. Birth Centers are:
Accreditation for Birth Centers is based upon
carefully defined national standards.
BirthCenter Standards
• licensed by individual states
• accredited by the
Commission for the Accreditation
of Birth Centers
Look for the CABC accreditation seal.

24. Birth Centers give you Care that is:
• Founded on the highest
standards
• Respectful
• Safe and supported by
research.
• Sensitive
• Accessible well woman
care for you now and in
the years to come.

25. • Time
• Choices
• Education
• Support
• Services
The Birth Center offers you more. . .

26. American Association of Birth Centers
3123 Gottschall Road, Perkiomenville, PA 18704
Call Toll Free: 866-54-BIRTH (24784)
or 215-234-8068
www.BirthCenters.org

27. Pledge your commitment to New Orleans
families today!
Birthmark
birthmarkdoulas@gmail.com
504-457-8332
www.birthmarkdoulas.com