Birth Center: Exploring Your Options

Pregnancy Podcast by Vanessa Merten

May 24, 202650:46Health

A birth center sits in the middle ground between a home birth and a hospital. You get a home-like setting and midwife-led care built around a low-intervention birth. A birth center is not the right fit for every pregnanc...

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