Birth Setting

Even before you choose your care provider, you may want to decide where you would like your baby to be born. You may choose a birthing center, a hospital or your home. Remember, you do have a choice. To help you decide, you may want to tour birthing centers and hospitals in your area. You may want to talk to other women about where their babies were born. If everyone you know has had a baby in the hospital, you may want to attend a Birth Matters meeting. There are women throughout Virginia who deliver their babies outside of a hospital and the scientific evidence proves that planned, midwife-attended homebirths and birthing center births are safe for mother and baby.