Last August, a decree published in the Official Journal established the main operating guidelines for birth centers which will open their doors in 2016 in France. This time, the list of 9 projects selected to be “pilot experiments” for five years has just been published; It is :
• the company CALM-house of birth in Paris;
• Premier Cri in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne);
• the Doumaia birth center in Castres (Tarn);
• The House in Grenoble (Isère);
• Time to be born in Baie-Mahault (Guadeloupe);
• Joy of being born in Saint-Paul (Reunion);
• First hours in the world in Bourgoin-Jallieu (Isère)
• Alsace birth center (MANALA) in Sélestat (Bas-Rhin);
• A Nest to be born in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle).
These are structures run by midwives who provide pregnancy monitoring and childbirth but which will be installed in the immediate vicinity of a partner maternity hospital “with which they must enter into an agreement and with which direct access is arranged, allowing, in particular, a rapid transfer of parturients in the event of a complication” underlines the High Authority for Health.
Who can go?
Childbirth by a midwife in a birthing center is reserved for women “at low obstetrical and fetal risk” for pregnancy and at the time of childbirth. A “low-risk” pregnancy is a pregnancy which does not present a priori risky situations. It is preferable to register in a birth center at the start of pregnancy with a maximum registration deadline of 28 weeks of amenorrhea.
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