0 a place where people can give birth that has medical equipment and trained helpers such as midwives, but not as much medical or surgical technology as a hospital:
Birth centres provide midwife-led care for uncomplicated births.
Birthing centres may have limited capacity to treat newborns with critical health conditions.
In the 1960s at his radical birthing centre in Pithiviers, France, he first introduced water as a way of relaxing women in order to reduce drug use and Caesareans.
My wife opted for midwife support at a birth centre, and she gave birth to a healthy baby with no major complications.
