birthing center

[bur-thing sen-ter]

noun

1. a medical facility for the labor and childbirth experience in a family-friendly, homelike environment.

Word History and Origins

Origin of birthing center¹

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

Inpatient hospice facilities have the atmosphere of a bed-and-breakfast, or a birthing center, but for the dying.

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Midwife Ximena Rojas and her team of two doulas run a birthing center and offer sexual and reproductive care to migrants.

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Natasha Downing was planning to deliver her baby at a birthing center but her unborn child just couldn’t wait.

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Downing, 34, was experiencing contractions every 30 seconds Aug. 22 at her home in Calabasas and was planning to go with her midwife to the birthing center when she realized that she was not going to make it.

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The whole birth was captured on the Downings’ doorbell camera, which shows her squatting and delivering the newborn next to the suitcase and bag her husband had packed for her for the birthing center.

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