Natural Birth: Benefits for Baby

Natural Birth: Benefits for Baby

While the experience of natural birth at the SCV Birth Center is not only comforting and altogether safer for mommy than a hospital birth, there are plenty of benefits that directly affect the baby. Many different factors will contribute to the decision to give birth...
A Birth Center… Is My Necessity

A Birth Center… Is My Necessity

This week’s guest blogger is a friend of the SCV Birth Center and mommy to the precious, Cataleya. Rai recollects on her emotional experience here at the Birth Center, and her continued friendship with our midwives. I kind of understood what a birth center was,...
The Natural Birth Option

The Natural Birth Option

How did we get to the point where a third of all babies in the country are born via cesarean section? Most first-time mothers who reach their 40th week of pregnancy are given the option to go to the hospital to induce labor and, because of hospital policies, over 32%...