The Birth Center of New Jersey

April 2019 Newsletter

Embracing Mother Nature

Lately, a lot of hospital maternity
units are calling themselves birth
centers, adding homey touches such
as curtains and framed pictures to
regular hospital rooms. But decor is
only a small part of what separates a
birth center from a hospital ward.

At the Birth Center of New Jersey, every

effort is made to create the loving,
intimate feeling of an at-home birth,
while providing the safety of continuous
one-on-one care. You’ll have the support
of our highly skilled and caring team of
professionals during your prenatal care,
labor, and birth. We are your midwifery
experts!
 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
Fun Facts complications).
The American Association of Birth Center's Epidural anesthesia isn't offered at most
study looked at 15,500 women planning for a
birth centers. Women are free to move
birth-center birth in 33 states (and 79 different
around in labor. Comfort measures such
centers). Here's what they found.
as hydrotherapy, massage, warm and
1. Emergency transfers from birth centers to cold compresses, and visualization and
hospitals are rare. relaxation techniques are often used.
2. Birth centers have MUCH lower C-
section rates.
3. Infant mortality rates are about the same.
4. There were no maternal deaths.
5. Birth center births can cost nearly half as
much as low-risk hospital births.

Did you give birth at a birth center

instead of a hospital? What was your
experience like?