“How to choose an OB/GYN: Our 5-part Guide” from University of Cincinnati Health

“Important considerations when choosing a birth provider”

• Home birth

  • Further info

• Hospitals & clinics

  • Note: Depending on where you give birth, you will likely be provided with postpartum essentials, like diapers and wipes, a manual breast pump, a perineum spray bottle, etc. Don’t hesitate to ask for these items (and extras) and take as much as you want from your hospital room. Hospitals regularly throw away unused items from discharged patients’ rooms.

  • Stanford Children’s

  • Sequoia Hospital

  • Kaiser Permanente

  • El Camino Health

  • Millie Clinic

  • SF Birth Center

• Local services/professionals

  • OB/GYNs

    • What they do

      • Local services / professionals

  • Midwives

    • What they do

    • Local services / professionals

      • Colleen Moreno, DNP, CNM

      • Bay Area Homebirth Collective

      • Midwives Bay Area

      • Redwood Midwifery

      • East Bay Midwives

  • Birth doulas

    • What they do

    • Local services / professionals

      • Stork & Sprout

        • Stork & Sprout's team of birth doulas will meet with you in your home to discuss your birth plans and provide an overview of the labor process, in addition to helping you through labor and delivery.

      • Doulas by the Bay

      • The Birth Companions

      • Birth by Mica

      • The Bay Doula Rita

      • SF Bay Area Doula Availability — Facebook group

      • Birth Companions Community Center (SF) — offers multilingual doula care, education, pregnancy support, and ancestral practices

      • SisterWeb — San Francisco Community Doula Network for Black/African-American families in SF

      • CoCo Doulas — Community Doula Network for Black/African-American families in Contra Costa county

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