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Birth Care Client Information

Ask us about the birth center experience!
Are you considering having your baby at Birth Care? Are you already a client, and have questions about the place where you will be giving birth?  While we have stopped giving birth center tours due to pandemic restrictions, Mary Jane Hoffman is happy to tell you about the birth center and answer your questions about the facility or about billing. Call her during business hours at
717-786-5506

Childbirth Education
During the pandemic, we all should avoid group educational sessions. We encourage yu to enroll in online educational programs to prepare yourself for the unique experience of giving birth in a free-standing birth center. 

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Birth Care Client Documents
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Client Policies
Which conditions may risk me out of the birth center?
Client Bill of Rights
Financial Policy

​Who to call
Medications

Labor teaching
If baby arrives before the midwife
Home visit policy

Final weeks
Car seat
Newborn hearing and metabolic screen
Herbs for postpartum
Newborn Jaundice
Sun baths
Colic

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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
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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
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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        

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