Birth Care Client Information
Talk and tour
Are you considering having your baby at Birth Care? Are you already a client, and eager to get acquainted with the place where you will be giving birth? Mary Jane Hoffman is happy to schedule a personal or group tour during business hours. Call her on her private line: 717-786-5574
Childbirth Education
Having a baby in a birth center can be a rewarding experience. Childbirth education specifically geared to out-of-hospital birth can empower you and enhance your coping skills, communication, and comfort. We require childbirth education for all women giving birth for the first time, and for all women having their first out-of-hospital delivery.
Are you considering having your baby at Birth Care? Are you already a client, and eager to get acquainted with the place where you will be giving birth? Mary Jane Hoffman is happy to schedule a personal or group tour during business hours. Call her on her private line: 717-786-5574
Childbirth Education
Having a baby in a birth center can be a rewarding experience. Childbirth education specifically geared to out-of-hospital birth can empower you and enhance your coping skills, communication, and comfort. We require childbirth education for all women giving birth for the first time, and for all women having their first out-of-hospital delivery.
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Local Resources
Click to find out what the Lancaster County community offers.
Health Information on the Web
The Internet offers a wealth of good health care information. It also provides a lot of really bad advice and incorrect assumptions. It is important to get your information from reliable sources. Here are a few sites that are good resources. However, your best source of information is your own health care provider. The Internet can supply good information about disorders and tests, but only your provider can explain how it relates to you as an individual.
Useful Websites
The information on these sites does not always reflect our philosophy of care, but you may find it helpful.
Childbirth Connection: www.ChildbirthConnection.org
Provides tips that help women have healthy pregnancies and births.
Share with Women: http://ourmomentoftruth.com/share-with-women/
Printable information sheets about a wide range of pregnancy and women's health topics.
Our Moment Of Truth: http://ourmomentoftruth.com/
Empowering information about pregnancy and women's health.
Mayo Clinic: Diseases and conditions https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions
Reliable information about a wide variety of medical issues.
Mother to Baby fact sheets: https://mothertobaby.org/fact-sheets-parent/
Drug safety info for pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Medline Plus: https://medlineplus.gov/
Basic, easy-to-understand information about many diseases and conditions.
Free E-books
Pathway to a Healthy Birth:
ttp://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/resources/health-care/maternity/pathway-to-a-healthy-birth-booklet.pdf
Comfort in Labor by Penny Simkin
http://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/resources/health-care/maternity/comfort-in-labor-simkin.pdf
Vaginal or Cesarean Birth
http://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/resources/health-care/maternity/vaginal-or-cesarean-birth-what-is-at-stake.pdf
Every woman deserves a doula
http://www.babiesincommon.com/docs/Every-Woman-Deserves-a-Doula.pdf
Other Information
The Diane Rehm Show on Midwives
https://dianerehm.org/shows/2015-01-13/new_research_on_the_safety_of_using_midwives_for_low_risk_deliveries
American Association of Birth Centers
https://www.birthcenters.org/page/for_parents
Click to find out what the Lancaster County community offers.
Health Information on the Web
The Internet offers a wealth of good health care information. It also provides a lot of really bad advice and incorrect assumptions. It is important to get your information from reliable sources. Here are a few sites that are good resources. However, your best source of information is your own health care provider. The Internet can supply good information about disorders and tests, but only your provider can explain how it relates to you as an individual.
Useful Websites
The information on these sites does not always reflect our philosophy of care, but you may find it helpful.
Childbirth Connection: www.ChildbirthConnection.org
Provides tips that help women have healthy pregnancies and births.
Share with Women: http://ourmomentoftruth.com/share-with-women/
Printable information sheets about a wide range of pregnancy and women's health topics.
Our Moment Of Truth: http://ourmomentoftruth.com/
Empowering information about pregnancy and women's health.
Mayo Clinic: Diseases and conditions https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions
Reliable information about a wide variety of medical issues.
Mother to Baby fact sheets: https://mothertobaby.org/fact-sheets-parent/
Drug safety info for pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Medline Plus: https://medlineplus.gov/
Basic, easy-to-understand information about many diseases and conditions.
Free E-books
Pathway to a Healthy Birth:
ttp://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/resources/health-care/maternity/pathway-to-a-healthy-birth-booklet.pdf
Comfort in Labor by Penny Simkin
http://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/resources/health-care/maternity/comfort-in-labor-simkin.pdf
Vaginal or Cesarean Birth
http://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/resources/health-care/maternity/vaginal-or-cesarean-birth-what-is-at-stake.pdf
Every woman deserves a doula
http://www.babiesincommon.com/docs/Every-Woman-Deserves-a-Doula.pdf
Other Information
The Diane Rehm Show on Midwives
https://dianerehm.org/shows/2015-01-13/new_research_on_the_safety_of_using_midwives_for_low_risk_deliveries
American Association of Birth Centers
https://www.birthcenters.org/page/for_parents
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Birth Care & Family Health Services • 1138 Georgetown Road
P.O. Box 152 Bart, Pa. 17503 • Phone: 717.786.4010 • Fax: 717.786.4011 E-mail: info@birthcaremidwives.com Web design by Bonnie U. Gruenberg, CNM
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