welcome home
community birth center
4500 47th Avenue, Suite 5
Sacramento, California
(916) 668-9467
Sacramento, California
(916) 668-9467
Click here to enroll in our orientation for Welcome Home Community Birth Center. Completing this orientation is required for all birth center clients.
About our center
Welcome Home Community Birth Center is a freestanding birth center located in Sacramento, California.
We offer high-quality, family-centered care that allows healthy people to give birth in a calm environment.
Our provider is a California Licensed Midwife and Certified Professional Midwife, holding memberships with the California Association of Licensed Midwives (CALM) and the National Association for Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM).
Our center operates as an exempt birth center under the California Health & Safety Code, which states a center operating as part of a Licensed Midwife's practice is exempt from facility licensure. For more information about the rigorous training of and quality of care provided by Licensed Midwives, visit the Medical Board of California website.
Welcome Home Community Birth Center works in partnership with Welcome Home Midwifery Services, Inc. as an education organization to provide safe training opportunities for MEAC-enrolled student midwives. Our experienced, California Medical Board-Licensed Midwives are deeply committed to providing access to community birth for Sacramento's families.
In addition to perinatal care, our midwives offer interconception care including annual exams, family planning services, and lab testing.
We offer high-quality, family-centered care that allows healthy people to give birth in a calm environment.
Our provider is a California Licensed Midwife and Certified Professional Midwife, holding memberships with the California Association of Licensed Midwives (CALM) and the National Association for Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM).
Our center operates as an exempt birth center under the California Health & Safety Code, which states a center operating as part of a Licensed Midwife's practice is exempt from facility licensure. For more information about the rigorous training of and quality of care provided by Licensed Midwives, visit the Medical Board of California website.
Welcome Home Community Birth Center works in partnership with Welcome Home Midwifery Services, Inc. as an education organization to provide safe training opportunities for MEAC-enrolled student midwives. Our experienced, California Medical Board-Licensed Midwives are deeply committed to providing access to community birth for Sacramento's families.
In addition to perinatal care, our midwives offer interconception care including annual exams, family planning services, and lab testing.
midwives...
- Monitor the physical, psychological and social well-being of the pregnant parent throughout the childbearing cycle.
- Provide families with individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous hands-on assistance during labor and birth, and postpartum support.
- Minimize technological interventions.
- Identify and refer parents or babies who require additional medical attention.
Midwives see pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum as normal and healthy life events.
safety
Community birth is safe for low-risk birthing parents who are attended by a skilled provider. This means that parents giving birth to a term, head-down, singleton baby in a community setting (home or birth center) with a trained midwife are at a low risk of complications.
Most families who plan to birth in a birth center do indeed give birth in a birth center.
Most families who plan to birth in a birth center have a vaginal birth.
Most families planning a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) in a birth center have a vaginal birth.
Most families planning a birth in a birth center are exclusively breastfeeding at 6 weeks.
Fewer than 10% of parents planning to birth in a birth center ultimately give birth by cesarean. This is 1/3 the national average!
The primary reason for transfer of care in labor is labor slowing, stopping, or not progressing normally, and urgent transports are rare.
Most families who plan to birth in a birth center do indeed give birth in a birth center.
Most families who plan to birth in a birth center have a vaginal birth.
Most families planning a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) in a birth center have a vaginal birth.
Most families planning a birth in a birth center are exclusively breastfeeding at 6 weeks.
Fewer than 10% of parents planning to birth in a birth center ultimately give birth by cesarean. This is 1/3 the national average!
The primary reason for transfer of care in labor is labor slowing, stopping, or not progressing normally, and urgent transports are rare.
how can i help the birth center?
Welcome Home Midwifery Services, Inc. is a volunteer-run organization and relies heavily on the efforts of families served by their programs. Consider making a tax-deductible donation directly toward one of their programs. Click here for information.
Welcome Home community birth center
4500 47th ave, suite 5
sacramento, ca 95824
open by appointment only
Welcome Home Community Birth Center seeks to be an inclusive environment that is welcoming and accessible to our clients and their families. We strive to provide culturally appropriate and reflective care that both preserves and enriches the communities we serve. We work to make our practice, facility, and training programs as accessible as possible and we invite you to share your feedback about anything more we can do to meet your needs.
