Birth centers offer an excellent alternative to traditional hospital birth.

Preferred by families wanting a natural, physiologic birth experience. Birth centers provide a warm, home-like family-centered environment in which to give birth.

Mothers at these hospitals also use other methods of natural childbirth: hypno-birthing (which teaches a state of complete relaxation during labor), the Bradley Method (husband- or partner-coached childbirth), and Lamaze (the widely known use of breathing and relaxation techniques).

The belief is

“If you allow birth to occur without any [medical] intervention, then things will probably go well,”