A birth center has more of a home - like feeling to it than
a hospital labor ward, with access to food, music, the ability to have friends and family present, and furnishings that look and feel more like home than a hospital room.
Not exact matches
These settings include conventional
hospital labor and delivery
wards, alternative birth settings that may be
hospital - affiliated or free - standing, and home births.
As Dekker pointed out, if
hospital maternity
wards are full with women being induced, will there be enough room left for women who arrive already in
labor?
According to an August 8 report by Red Book Magazine, a very pregnant Kirsty was a patient in the delivery
ward of a
hospital after she had
labor and contractions.
It seems that
hospital Labor / Maternity
wards have come under the influence of ideology rather than evidence.
Then, one year, a horrible flu ravaged the land, and many
hospitals had to shut their
labor room doors to all but essential staff and one or two
labor supporters, to prevent the spread of disease on the maternity
ward.
Guðrún Eggertsdóttir, the head midwife of the
labor ward at Landspítali, the largest
hospital in Reykjavik, Iceland, tells me that when a homebirth mom transfers to their
hospital she is welcomed warmly.
Banner Health now equips all of its
hospital labor and delivery
wards with so - called peanut balls.
They must have entered the
labor ward of another
hospital, for soon the sounds of women moaning and screaming filled her ears.