birth centre
noun [ C ] UK (US birth center) /ˈbɜːθ ˌsen.tər/ /ˈbɜ˞ːθ ˌsen.t̬ɚ/ (UK also birthing centre)
分娩中心
a place where people can give birth that has medical equipment and trained helpers such as midwives, but not as much medical or surgical technology as a hospital
My second child was born in the birth centre, delivered by a midwife. 我的第二个孩子在分娩中心出生，由助产士接生。
They want every woman to have a choice of whether she gives birth at home, in a birthing centre, or in a hospital. 他们希望每个妇女都能够选择在家里、在分娩中心或在医院分娩。
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- Birth centres provide midwife-led care for uncomplicated births.
- Birthing centres may have limited capacity to treat newborns with critical health conditions.
- In the 1960s at his radical birthing centre in Pithiviers, France, he first introduced water as a way of relaxing women in order to reduce drug use and Caesareans.
- My wife opted for midwife support at a birth centre, and she gave birth to a healthy baby with no major complications.