Women have been giving birth for thousands of years. The process of labor and birth has remained the same, but the ways women give birth have changed dramatically over the past 100 years (just ask your mother and grandmother). Fortunately, women giving birth today have more choices in childbearing than ever before. One option growing in popularity is the freestanding birth center.

If you chose to work with a freestanding birth center, you would have your prenatal visits in the office at the birth center, you would see your care provider on the same schedule as you would if attending any other clinic, you would have the option for the same prenatal screenings and tests as you would in another clinic setting. You would go to the birth center when you are in labor, just as you would go to the hospital.

So what makes a freestanding birth center different?