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Transforming Maternity Care

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At Pacifica Birth Center, modern maternity care is designed to empower families through personalized, respectful, and inclusive support. We offer a range of options that embrace natural birth, medical support, and holistic wellness to ensure the best outcomes for both parents and baby. Our team is committed to serving all families with compassionate care that honors your unique journey and choices at every step.

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4th Trimester Care

At Pacifica Family Maternity Center, our fourth-trimester care offers two personalized at-home visits to support lactation, bonding, baby care, emotional well-being, and more. Our approach is designed around you and your family’s needs.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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  • A freestanding birth center is designed specifically for healthy people choosing an out-of-hospital birth experience. Birth Centers do:

    • Support physiologic birth

    • Encourage labor using non-pharmaceutical methods

    • Provide intermittent fetal monitoring

    • Offer continuous labor support and use natural techniques to work with the intensity of labor

    • Have lower rates of transfers leading to cesarean birth.

  • A midwife is an expert in normal pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and newborn care. Meet our team of midwives and doulas ready to support you.

  • Yes, a safe birth can be accomplished out of hospital. Despite what is depicted in the media, people can give birth safely and physiologically. There are large, well-designed studies that have examined the safety of out-of-hospital birth. The results are conclusive; for low-risk pregnant people, out-of-hospital birth attended by a skilled provider and hospital birth of similar groups have equivalent safety outcomes.

  • Yes, water is a great resource for birth. Pacifica is equipped with tubs in each of our birthing suites, and many women choose to labor and even give birth in the water. You can read more about the safety of water birth in our birth evidence and studies.

  • The birth center is open to families who received their prenatal care with the midwives at Pacifica. At the initiation of care, all people will be screened for risk factors that are outside of the scope of midwifery care. Join us for an orientation session, a complimentary early date ultrasound, or simply contact us to schedule a tour.

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Family Love Notes

“Our family loved the experience of caring for my pregnancy and childbirth with the team and at this space at Pacifica. Throughout our pregnancy, we had an extraordinary care experience. The prenatal classes and individual midwife care were more than we had dreamed of. We ended up having our birth at a hospital, and even there, Cindy was crucial for us to have a positive experience, not just for me but also for my partner, our baby, and my mother. Some of our appointments were in Spanish, so my mom could understand and ask all the questions she had. At Pacifica, we found an invaluable care and even made friends with other families for life.”

— Laura P.

Philosophy of Care

Midwives support the strength of birthing people and their health’s role in family and community well-being. Midwifery upholds human rights, acknowledging that women, trans, and gender non-conforming people often face greater risks when these rights are denied.

We believe every person has a right to:

  • Equitable, ethical, accessible quality health care that promotes healing and health

  • Health care that respects human dignity, individuality and diversity among groups

  • Complete and accurate information to make informed health care decisions

  • Self-determination and active participation in health care decisions

  • Involvement of your designated family members, to the extent desired, in all health care experiences

 We believe the best model of health care for you and your family:

  • Promotes a continuous and compassionate partnership

  • Acknowledges a person’s life experiences and knowledge

  • Includes individualized methods of care and healing guided by the best evidence available

  • Involves the therapeutic use of human presence and skillful communication

 We honor the normalcy of your lifecycle events. We believe in:

  • Watchful waiting and non-intervention in normal processes

  • Appropriate use of interventions and technology for current or potential health problems

  • Consultation, collaboration, and referral with other members of the health care team as needed to provide optimal health care

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