Birthplace

This article deals with the birth house as an out-of-hospital facility, for known birth houses of famous people see List of Birth Houses of Famous People .

A birthplace is one of midwives operated independent and non-clinical facility for the care of infants.

history

The first birthing center in Germany was opened in Gießen in 1985 by the teaching midwife Dorothea Heidorn, in 2005 there were around one hundred birthing centers in Germany.

goals and tasks

The aim of a birthing center is to provide comprehensive and personal support to pregnant women and couples during pregnancy , childbirth and the first time with the baby . It deliberately distinguishes itself from clinics and wants to support women in dealing consciously, self-determinedly, emotionally and spiritually with their pregnancy, the birth and their newborns. Care is provided by midwives and other professional groups.

Obstetric work

Many birthing centers offer information events , birth preparation , courses in open or closed groups, preparation for living with children, etc. In most birthing centers it is only possible to give birth on an outpatient basis under the direction of a midwife . H. After a normal birth, mother and child return to their own apartment after just a few hours and are then looked after by the aftercare midwife. However, some birthing centers also offer inpatient care for up to six days during the puerperium . Many birth centers offer postnatal gymnastics, breastfeeding meetings, crawling groups and more.

Assumption of costs

While all costs, including a longer inpatient stay, are reimbursed for a birth in the hospital, a birth in the birthing center is borne, but costs for materials used and inpatient stays are only covered if the health insurance company has given goodwill . In one case, according to a court order, the stay after the birth had to be covered by the health insurance.

Special risks of childbirth in the birthing center

According to one study, up to 45 percent of first-time mothers who choose to give birth outside of a hospital are emergency transferred to a clinic during the birth.

Organization of birthing centers

A network of birthing centers has set itself the task of promoting the idea of ​​natural childbirth, presenting it to the public, establishing quality assurance and representing it in relation to health insurance companies and the legislature. However, the network only represents its members and not all of Germany's birth centers.

See also

• Home birth
• Midwifery delivery room

literature

• Christine Trompka: Home birth and giving birth in the birth center, experience reports from women who give courage . GreenBirth eV, Fidibus, Murnau 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034609-5 .
• Kenneth C. Johnson and Betty-Anne Daviss: Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America . In: BMJ 2005; 330: 1416 (June 18) . June 16, 2005, doi : 10.1136 / bmj.330.7505.1416 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Birthplace  - explanations of meanings, origins of words, synonyms, translations

• WHO: Excerpts from the German translation of the WHO report "Care in a normal Birth"
• Birth centers on the side of the midwifery association
• Interest group of the birth centers in Switzerland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Network Birth Houses
2. ↑ File number L-1 / Kr-586/89 from December 16, 1993, Hessisches Landessozialgericht Darmstadt
3. ↑ Home birth - doctors and midwives argue about risk, Spiegel Online
4. ↑ Home births - increased risk
5. ↑ Homepage Network Birth Houses