What Is The Cincinnati Birth Center Experience?
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At the Cincinnati Birth Center, we’re dedicated to creating a safe and comfortable environment for mothers and their families to grow. We have a passion for guiding expectant mothers through their pregnancy and postpartum process, helping them bring their newborns into the world.
From our first time meeting you during a discovery all the way through the postpartum period, our team will be by your side to ensure you feel supported and comfortable throughout your journey. Here’s what you can expect in every stage of pregnancy when you choose to work with the Cincinnati Birth Center:
01. Discovery Call
Before we begin working together, we’ll set up a discovery call to introduce you to our services, cost coverage, and payment of services. We’ll also do an evaluation of the expecting mothers’ current and previous health history, including past pregnancies if applicable.
In this call, we’ll also ensure that you’re familiarized with our birthing teams process, which includes prenatal appointments, a birthing plan, and prenatal care. We recommend that expectant mothers contact the Cincinnati Birth Center as soon as possible upon finding out they’re pregnant, as this will help to ensure the most comprehensive and in-depth quality of care. Expecting mothers exceeding 34 weeks gestation, unfortunately, are not able to utilize our services due to the time constraints our birth team news to properly prepare for birth.
02. Onboarding
After your discovery call, our team will contact you with all of the further information needed to determine whether you would like to proceed in moving forward. Once you’ve taken the time to look over these documents and choose to proceed, a member of our staff will send you an official welcome email. This email will outline all the necessary tasks you’ll need to complete before setting up the first prenatal appointment.
In this stage of the process, you’ll receive technical instructions and documentation on:
How to properly contact our team
How to set up your online health portal
How to use the Quickbooks invoicing link to make payments
How to sign appropriate documents using DocuSign
Once all documentation has been filled out and received by our team, a team member will contact you to schedule the first prenatal visit.
03. Prenatal Care
In the months leading up to birth, you will meet with our certified birthing team members for a series of prenatal visits. Our service costs cover up to 14 visits with our birthing team and typically occur month-to-month, although appointment frequency is dependent on the individual and how far along the mother is. In general, the frequency of appointments follows the level of gestion. Until 30 weeks gestation, appointments are monthly. From 30-36 weeks gestation, they’ll become bi-weekly. Finally, after 36 weeks of gestation, appointments may occur weekly.
Leading up to a mother’s estimated due date (EDD) our birthing team will monitor the baby and mother and facilitate routine health checks. Additionally, we’ll cover any possible pregnancy updates the mother may be experiencing, dietary options, ways to better relieve pain or discomfort, the best preparation plans for home and birth center birth, and more.
These visits not only ensure the health of mother and child, but also simultaneously help you get to know our team and vice versa. Connection and comfortability with our birthing team and staff are an incredibly important part of the Cincinnati Birth Center experience to us.
04. The Birth
When it comes to giving birth with us, you get to choose what environment you’d like to have your experience in: at home or the birth center. Both offer different wholesome experiences while offering the same level of care and attention to you throughout all stages of pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum stages. Prenatal visits with our team will remain the same no matter which options you choose and will include regular check-ups at our birth center where all examinations and appointments take palace.
Giving Birth At The Birth Center
Choosing to have your child at our birthing center will allow the wonderful opportunity to give birth in a safe, warm, and calming environment with our birth team at the ready to assist the mother however possible. Immediate family is welcome to be present during the birth.
Each of our rooms offers a different style and aesthetic to what may suit each mother’s desires most. Following the birth, clients have the option to stay up to 24 hours at our facility, where a relaxing bath or shower and bed will be provided for recovery.
Giving Birth At Home
Clients who choose to give birth at home within an approved distance of the Cincinnati Birth Center may enjoy the idea of bringing their newborn into the world within the comfort and familiarity of their family home. This option allows clients to set the mood and feeling of their environment as they wish. Travel for the mother is also not involved with this option at the initiation of labor.
Regardless of the setting each mother chooses to give birth in, our team will be on hand to help them through each step of childbirth and recovery. Following labor and birth, our team will provide routine medical care to ensure that the newborn and mother are both in good health. The comfort of the mother and child is our top priority. Skin to skin contact is important for the baby at this time, so allowing the mother the chance to hold their child will be highly recommended.
05. Postpartum Care
With comfort and connection at the core of our team's values, we will continue to remain involved in both the mother and child’s lives post-birth. Regular postpartum visits will be scheduled up to 6 week following the birth. These visits will consist of lactation advice and instruction, recovery advice, dietary recommendations and more. Our team will be focused on the overall physical and mental health of the mother and newborn, supporting them however possible.
It’s normal for new mothers to sometimes struggle to connect with their child during breastfeeding. If a mother finds themselves needing additional guidance on breastfeeding tactics, latching, or other needs, we encourage them to speak with their midwife/doula. The Cincinnati Birth Center offers lactation consultations following postpartum care as needed.
Contact us and schedule a one-on-one meeting with a team member of the Cincinnati Birth Center.
