Elizabeth Brooks delivered her first baby in a hospital. But for the second, due in January, she and her husband, Erik, wanted a more homelike setting, with a nurse midwife attending the birth. They’ve signed up to use Charlotte’s first non-hospital-based birth center, which opens this weekend on Providence Road, about a block from Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center. It’s a spa-like setting, staffed by three certified nurse midwives who’ll support mothers in natural childbirth, without the drugs and interventions they might get in the hospital. For low-risk pregnancies, the midwives provide everything from prenatal checkups to deliveries to followup care. And they have support from...
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