Our Approach
The mission of Tree of Life Family Birth Center is to offer women with low-risk pregnancies a safe, natural, more personalized birth experience, in keeping with applicable standards of midwifery practice, under the care of Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs).
Our Approach
Tree of Life Family Birth Center is here to offer a warm, nurturing environment for women with low-risk pregnancies who choose natural childbirth. Our care includes prenatal visits at WomanCare in Jeffersonville, IN, conveniently located for women and families of Kentuckiana. Throughout the pregnancy you will be monitored to ensure that delivery at the Tree of Life Family Birth Center is appropriate for you. If a woman’s birth at the birth center becomes unsafe at any point during pregnancy, labor or delivery, our Certified Nurse Midwives (CNMs) will have the ability to seamlessly transition care to the hospital setting, while still maintaining an empowering and natural environment for birth. Fortunately, the majority of women that risk out of the birth center is small, and our CNMs can continue to provide care for you at the hospital, maintaining your birth plan as much as possible.
Through private prenatal visits and personalized (or tailored) classes, we’ll help you prepare for a natural birthing experience
From the moment we welcome you into our birthing center, the warm setting and familiarity of your childbirth team will put you at ease. The center is open to you, your partner, family, and anyone else you wish to have present, including children. Each of our birthing rooms offers a queen size bed and birthing tub, and will allow you the space to practice intuitive freedom of movement and position yourself in the ways you feel are comfortable and effective for you.
At Tree of Life Family Birth Center, our goal is to offer you a family-centered, intimate experience culminating in the safe & gentle birth of your baby. We provide expert, experienced midwifery care throughout your labor and birth. Our use of a high touch, low tech midwifery care provides you the opportunity to experience normal healthy birth in a relaxed environment, free of the pressures of the institutional policies and procedures. Our licensure and education gives you the assurance that should you or your baby require the use emergency medications, they will be readily available on site.
We focus on childbirth as a normal, natural process in all aspects of our care, supporting this process throughout while recognizing and managing any deviations from normal. Our collaborative agreement with the physicians at WomanCare, along with our privileges at Norton Clark Hospital, allow us to provide you with continued support and care should you or your baby require transfer to the hospital for a higher level of care.
A few hours after birth, you and your baby will be discharged to recover in the comfort of your own home. Continued care will be provided to mom and baby in the form of follow up visits and 24 hour phone access with the midwives and nurses at the Tree of Life Family Birth Center.
Who we are
We are all members of the staff at WomanCare, Kentuckiana’s premiere OB/GYN practice, with one of the regions lowest cesarean section rates, and a longstanding commitment to providing extraordinary care before, during and after delivery, as well as providing well-woman care, preconception counseling, contraceptive management, and GYN problem visits.