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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a patient at the Family Health and Birth Center (http://www.communityofhopedc.org/fhbc) in DC.  It is a midwife birth practice and you can choose to deliver with the midwives at Washington Hospital Center or at the birth center.  The midwives support natural childbirth but if you tell them you want an epidural or have a complication that requires hospital care (like an emergency c-section) they will go to the hospital and work with the maternity ward to deliver your baby there. (The you can't have an epidural or c-section in the birth center.)  So the advantage with them is that you can have midwife care and chose at any point to go to the hospital/get an epidural etc.  
 
The midwives take the place of your ob, so at this point, you'd have to get all your records from your ob and take them to the midwives and tell them you'd like to switch to their practice.  They take patients up to 20 or 24 weeks into the pregnancy, I believe. . . you can call them to be sure.  They also have open house/orientation every Saturday morning if you want to learn more about what they do.

I've had a great experience at the FHBC, but it might not be for everyone. . . I find it to be a low-stress, supportive, but not coddling experience over there.  
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