Birth Services
Birth Center or Home
Whether you choose to birth in one of our home-like birth suites, or your own home, our midwives are experts at supporting you through natural birth. We embrace your need for comfort and encourage you to eat, drink, and move freely while in labor, as well as being able to wear your own clothing and having the support people you need surrounding you. If a problem develops during labor, and a transfer of care to the hospital becomes necessary, your midwife will accompany you to the hospital to allow for a seamless transition. Our statistics speak to the safety of the care we provide with only a 10% labor transfer rate, with the vast majority being non-emergent, and a 5% cesarean birth rate for women who begin labor in the birth center or home setting. Less than 1% of transfers are emergencies.
Benefits to giving birth with Beautiful Beginnings
- Labor, birth, and postpartum care in the comfort of one of our birth suites, or your own home
- Use of water submersion for labor and/or birth with one of our Birth Pool in a Box Professional pools
- No continuous fetal monitoring, routine IVs, or episiotomy unless medically necessary
- Supplies, medications, and equipment to ensure safety should medical necessity arise
- Freedom to birth in the position of your choice
- Immediate skin to skin and delayed cord clamping
- No separation of mother and baby
- Shorter stay (4-6 hours after birth vs 24-48 in the hospital)
Water Birth
We lead local professionals with our experience and skill in waterbirth with 45% of our clients choosing to give birth in the water. The benefits of laboring and birthing in water are numerous to both you and your baby and there is no better place on the Space Coast to have a waterbirth than Beautiful Beginnings!
For more information on the safety of waterbirth, please visit Evidence Based Birth’s The Evidence On: Waterbirth.
Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)
Our midwives love supporting women in planning and achieving a VBAC! We provide education on the risks and benefits of a Trial of Labor After Cesarean (TOLAC) and repeat cesarean to help you make the most informed choice for your birth. Over 95% of our clients planning a VBAC end up with a successful vaginal birth. Due to birth center regulations, VBAC is only offered in the home setting to acceptable candidates. For women choosing to VBAC in the hospital setting, we collaborate care with maternal fetal medicine during pregnancy, and coordinate with the hospital for birth.
For women who undergo a cesarean, we provide post cesarean care, including incision/wound care and counseling.