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Transferring from Birth Centre to hospital

Transferring from a Birth Centre is never anticipated or else people wouldn’t plan Birth Centre births. Transferring from a Birth Centre to hospital occurs when it is deemed necessary for the wellbeing of the mother and child or if the woman is too tired to continue where she is.

There are two ways you can look at this subject - failure or success. There are two ways you can deal with this if it happens to you - as a failure or with success.

When a family does transfer to hospital from a Birth Centre, everyone wants this to be a smooth transition. Obstetricians, midwives and staff absolutely love to see women cope with labour and fathers really help. All birth professionals want families to have a very positive birth experience even if you have to transfer to their care in hospital. This can be done when you have learned birth and coaching skills during pregnancy.

By using your birth skills you get to impress all the staff and lock into your memory what you have done for yourself in what has become your hospital birth. What do you think you’ll remember? Do you think you’ll just remember transferring from your desired Birth Centre birth or the great skills you’ve used for yourself? You can feel passive to the experience, disappointed and out of control, or continue to use your self-learned birth skills and get on with the birth.

Even if you need a cesarean delivery, you can use your birth skills such as Directed Breathing, the Pelvic Clock or Deep Touch Relaxation at every moment and during recovery. Working with your baby’s efforts to be born is always rewarding wherever you give birth.


You can prevent some reasons why you might have to transfer to hospital from your chosen Birth Centre birth. Childbirth is a very physical process. A very large object has to come out of a ‘container’. When we prepare our body for birth we do so intentionally to make that process easier and safer for both our self and our baby.

Part of preparing for our birthing body is also learning the birth and coaching skills that help us work with our baby’s efforts to be born on the ‘big day’. When we couple preparing our pregnant body for birth and use the skills to work with the process then we are more likely to self reduce some of the common reasons women transfer from Birth Centre to hospital.

If we have to transfer for very serious medical reasons we don’t have to skip a beat in using our birth and coaching skills. Our body will be somewhere even if we need medical assessments, monitoring and procedures.

Transferring to hospital from a Birth Centre might be a disappointment or a relief. When you have your birth skills you realise that where or with whom you birth is much less important than continuing to work with your baby’s efforts to be born.

So get on with the glorious experience of giving birth no matter what. Use your skills and you’ll always feel empowered.

If you want to know more about Directed Breathing, the Pelvic Clock or Deep Touch Relaxation, Kate’s Cat, Hip Lift and Sacral Manoeuvre then visit http://www.birthingbetter.com.

Learn more about The Pink Kit Method For Birthing Better®, the only childbirth preparation course that focuses entirely on birth skills for mothers and fathers for ALL births.