About Centrevida Birth & Wellness Center LLC

CentreVida meaning “Center of Life” is the first facility of its kind in South Austin. The CentreVida Birth and Wellness Center offers comprehensive and personal maternity services with Licensed Midwives, as well as a comfortable community space for childbirth classes, holistic healthcare and parenting support.

Our highly trained staff combines expertise and knowledge with wisdom of the heart to give your family the comfortable, safe and positive experience that all babies and parents desire and deserve. We consider it a true honor to serve our clients through their individual journey in pregnancy, birth and beyond. 

Our Philosophy

CentreVida Birth Center provides a warm environment in a home-like setting where women can give birth and receive health care that respects their dreams and encourages their strength.  Our staff believes birth is normal and an emotionally powerful experience.  We believe that when a woman and her family are involved in making decisions about their care, they are more equipped to meet the challenges of parenthood.  We feel a woman is best served through information, partnership, and trust between client and midwife. 

At CentreVida, each client will have the same midwife throughout her pregnancy, birth, and postnatal care, as we feel this is an integral part of personalized care.  The woman's primary midwife and another well trained midwife will attend the birth as we believe birth out of the hospital is safest with two well trained midwives.

Safety

'Where and with whom' to birth is one of many decisions most appropriately made by each parent themselves. At CentreVida, our care is centered around the belief that woman and babies instinctively know how to birth and be born.

We work with each family to support their own decisions and believe that every woman and her family should feel accurately informed, supported, respected and safe. For a growing number of families, that includes a planned out-of-hospital birth with a Licensed Midwife.

Midwives provide full prenatal care and skilled monitoring during labor.  If a complication arises during your pregnancy,labor, or postpartum period, your midwives will consult with the appropriate care providers and transfer your care if needed. If you need to go to the hospital, your midwife will go with you to assist you, provide continuity of care and act as your advocate.

Midwives are experts in natural childbirth for low-risk women but also have special training in obstetric emergencies. At the birthing center or home delivery setting, we have the medical equipment and medications to handle problems at the time of delivery, should they occur.

     Some Variation or conditions with which we have had experience include:

Pregnancy

Pre-eclampsia                                     Poly and Oligohydramnios                             Borderline Gestational Diabetes

Vaginal infection                                Postdate                                                        Pregnancy Induces Hypertension

Breech Presentation                          Anemia                                                           Hyper and Hypothyroidism

Thrombocytopenia                             Urinary Tract Infection                                Miscarriage/Unexplained fetal demise

Labor,birth, and postpartum

VBAC                                                    Waterbirth                                                    Group B Strep carriers

Failure to progress                             Fetal Distress                                                Shoulder Dystocia

Back Labor                                          Postpartum Depression                                 Premature labor

Maternal Exhaustion                           Hemorrhage                                                   Cord around the neck

Perineal tears                            Prolonged/premature rupture of             Meconium stained amniotic fluid

Breastfeeding difficulties                   membranes

There are many sources to support the safety of out-of-hospital birth including CPM Statistics Project,

The World Health Organization, and The American Public Health Association.

Midwives in Texas are licensed and regulated. You can learn more about regulatory ethics, standards of care, and practice guidelines at www.mana.org or www.dshs.state.tx.us/midwife.