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birth center

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birth center,
a health facility with services limited to maternity care for women judged to be at minimum risk for obstetric complications that would require hospitalization.


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Vaginal breech births are not performed at the Nurse Midwifery Birth Center in Eugene, and they rarely occur at Sacred Heart or McKenzie-Willamette medical centers, where C-sections are the option of choice because of the risks involved.
In 1975, the first independent urban birth center in the US was born in New York City.
I found a birth center in Taos, New Mexico that was still attending VBACs.
 
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