Best Places To Give Birth In Sacramento Near Me

4worldlovers: In 2019 Midtown Nurse Midwives expanded to offer full scope midwifery in an out-of hospital setting. Set in Midtown Sacramento, the Midtown Birth Center is a historic 1903 Victorian. It provides a home-like setting while maintaining an up-to-date birthing facility that is equipped for emergencies and is less than 1 mile from the hospital.

Our birth center is nationally accredited by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers.

4worldlovers:
Please pre-register during your second trimester so we can anticipate your arrival and quickly admit you when you are in active labor.

Please park in Lot B between L and Capitol streets on 29th Street. Take the parking lot stairs or elevator to Level 3 and cross the bridge to the Women's and Children's Center. Enter the building and walk around the gift shop to find the "green" women's elevator portal. Take the elevator to Level 6 and check in at the Labor and Delivery registration desk.

Yes, valet parking is available if you require special assistance. The entrance is on Capitol Avenue between 28th and 29th streets.

Yes, we encourage patients to tour the Birth Center. You can register for a tour online or call (916) 887-4039.

Yes, Lori's Gifts is located on the 2nd floor of the Anderson Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center. The gift shop is open from 7:00 am to 9:00 pm daily. For more information, call (916) 887-0250.

4worldlovers: 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.

Identify and refer parents or babies who require additional medical attention.

​Midwives see pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum as normal and healthy life events.

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.

Click here to learn more about how we keep community birth safe.