Places To Give Birth In Sacramento Near Me

4worldlovers: Monitor the physical, psychological and social well-being of the pregnant parent throughout the childbearing cycle.

Provide families with individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous hands-on assistance during labor and birth, and postpartum support.

Identify and refer parents or babies who require additional medical attention.

​Midwives see pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum as normal and healthy life events.

Community birth is safe for low-risk birthing parents who are attended by a skilled provider. This means that parents giving birth to a term, head-down, singleton baby in a community setting (home or birth center) with a trained midwife are at a low risk of complications.

Most families who plan to birth in a birth center do indeed give birth in a birth center.

Most families who plan to birth in a birth center have a vaginal birth.

Most families planning a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) in a birth center have a vaginal birth.

Most families planning a birth in a birth center are exclusively breastfeeding at 6 weeks.

Fewer than 10% of parents planning to birth in a birth center ultimately give birth by cesarean. This is 1/3 the national average!

The primary reason for transfer of care in labor is labor slowing, stopping, or not progressing normally, and urgent transports are rare.

Click here to learn more about how we keep community birth safe.