Birth
Center

Richmond, VA’s premier Birth Center, with luxurious features you’ll love!

Extra deep tubs for water birth, complete with squat bars and room for your partnet
Endless hot water
Queen-sized, remote control beds with soft sheets and fuzzy blankets
Electric Fireplace and Birth swing
Private bathrooms
Two beautiful birth rooms with different vibes
Experienced, licensed, certified, professional midwives
Non-intimidating, home-like setting
Children welcome
Full time office manager for your scheduling and billing convenience
Free parking just steps from the front door

Our unwavering attention to detail provides a custom birthing experience that’s perfect for you and your family.

Our birth center offers low-risk women expecting healthy babies the opportunity for natural and water birth in a safe, gentle, compassionate manner that honors their right to be in control of their bodies, their births, and their babies.

Ample, free parking means you are just a few steps from our front door. As you enter, you are greeted by our friendly office manager, who will welcome you into our warm, comfortable family room. Please feel free to visit our tea and snack bar, use our free Wi-Fi, check out a book from our lending library, and make yourself at home.

Our licensed, certified, professional midwives pride themselves in being on time for your appointment. Your time is as important as ours! We’ll be with you quickly, so you should rarely have to wait for more than a few minutes.

We have two Birth Suites. The Serenity Suite is decorated in greens, with plenty of windows and natural light, so the atmosphere is bright and cheery. The next birth room is Mermaid Cove, in blues and browns, providing a more quiet and secluded space.

Both birth center rooms feature private bathrooms, extra deep tubs and endless hot water for water birth, remote control queen beds, soft and comfy linens, aromatherapy, music options, and of course, a dedicated licensed, certified, professional midwife and a birth assistant.

The birth center also has a reception area, family room, retail area, community meeting space, a private exam room, a kitchenette, and of course all the necessary facilities to meet national standards for the cleaning and handling of equipment and laundry.

Get to know our beautiful birth suites

Mermaid Cove

BIRTH SUITE

Serenity

BIRTH SUITE

Mermaid Cove

Dark, cave like and cozy! Women love the comfort darkness creates while in labor! Enjoy the beautiful fireplace for warmth or just as a meditative focal point while relaxing in the waterbirth tub. It’s just one of the features that make our birth center feel like a luxurious Bed and Breakfast experience.

Serenity Suite

The bright and airy birth room! Feeling like a fresh garden room, this room has lots of windows, space and of course, our birth swing. Reaching both the bed and the tub, it works wonders if you need to play a bit of tug-of-war to move your baby down and into your arms. It’s also lovely to lean into so someone can do hip squeezes or massage your back.

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Safety and Outcomes at Birth Centers

Freestanding birth centers offer low risk women desiring unmedicated, low- intervention birth a place to be heard, to be safe, and to be cared for.

There have been 2 large studies about the safety of birth centers, and both showed that birth centers in America are a wonderful option for women. Did you know America has the worst maternal mortality rates of all developed countries? Approximately 7 times more women die in the US as in Finland, and 3 times as many as the UK. The USA’s infant mortality is significantly higher than dozens of other countries, too.

Do you know what every other country does differently? It uses midwives as the first option for maternity care, and offers birth center and home birth options to everyone.

However, even with the best care, emergencies can and do happen. Embrace is located directly across the street from a fire station and EMS. We have had multiple on-site trainings to ensure they know exactly who we are and what we do.

We also are positioned almost perfectly between Chippenham and Johnston Willis Hospitals, which have on-site obstetricians and anesthesiologists, as well and Johnston Willis has a Level NICU.

We never expect an emergency, but we always are ready for one.

Ask us more about our emergency protocols during your tour!