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One Family Community Birth Center is a nonprofit freestanding birth center licensed by the State of Alaska. True to its name, this is a space for community education and family-centered care to healthy pregnant women. Call to arrange a no obligation tour of the facility and consult with a state licensed midwife.

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12/04/2021

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09/09/2021

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Gift certificates are a great way for your friends and family to help invest in your birth experience. Evidence has shown that families who utilize doula support during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum have far better birth experiences than those who give birth without a doula.

An excerpt from the Evidence Based Birth website says: "A third reason why doulas are effective has to do with the attachment between the birthing person and doula which can lead to an increase in oxytocin, the hormone that promotes labor contractions. This theory was proposed by Dr. Amy Gilliland in her 2010a study about effective labor support. In personal correspondence with Dr. Gilliland, she wrote, “I believe the Doula Effect is related to attachment. When the mother feels vulnerable in labor, she directs attachment behaviors to suitable figures around her, who may or may not be her attachment figures (parent, mate). When the mother directs attachment seeking behaviors to the doula, the experienced doula (25 births or more) responds in a unique manner. She is able to respond as a secure base, thereby soothing the mother’s attachment system. The accompanying diminishment in stress hormones allows for a surge in oxytocin in both the mother and the doula… theoretically, oxytocin is the hormone of attachment, and it is released during soothing touch and extended eye contact, which are habitual behaviors of birth doulas.” (Personal communication, Dr. Amy Gilliland, July 2015)."

Doula support is important for the father as well. The Evidence Based Birth website states: "Research has shown that the most positive birth experiences for fathers were ones where they had continuous support by a doula or a midwife. In the McGrath and Kennell study, the women and their partners who had a doula overwhelmingly rated the support of their doula as positive—with 93% rating their experience with the doula as very positive, and 7% as positive. In other studies, fathers have said that when they had labor support from a midwife or doula, things were explained to them, their questions were answered, their labor support efforts were guided and effective, and they could take breaks from the emotional intensity of the labor without abandoning their laboring partner (Johansson, 2015)."

If you'd like to invest in the care of your loved one by gifting them doula services, please click here to send an electronic gift certificate. https://squareup.com/gift/B7GV5HV8S6GW8/order

Ladies- These gift certificates can also be added to your gift registries if you want your friends and family to know that you'd love their help to hire a doula.

Lastly- If you'd like to read more about the evidence on doula support affecting birth outcomes, you can do so by clicking the link in the comments.

07/20/2021

We have a specific request for a donation of newborn boy clothes. If you have extra and can give, please message us to arrange for drop off/pick up. Thank you!

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1108 E Northern Lights Boulevard, Ste C
Anchorage, AK
99508

Website

http://onefamilybirthcenter.com/

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One Family Community Birth Center is a 501 (c)3 nonprofit freestanding birth center licensed by the State of Alaska. True to its name, this is a space for community education and family-centered care to healthy pregnant women. Call to arrange a no obligation tour of the facility and consult with a state licensed midwife.

One Family’s facility is available to your clinical staff midwife as an intimate setting available for the most peaceful introduction possible to your family member.

Our resources include a donation station where gently used maternity and child items are accepted and available to you, regardless of where you deliver or whom you deliver with.

We open our food pantry most Wednesdays where you can take whatever free food we have available to benefit your family.

We have free prenatal vitamins available to expectant mothers-in need through a grant provided by Vitamin Angels world program.

Our community center is available as a public space for classes and gatherings, look to our facebook for current events that may interest and serve your family, call us with your ideas and services!

We are the first State Licensed Freestanding birth center. As a non-profit, our commitment is to transform mainstream maternity care into what is best for mother and child. This is creating relationship based opportunities to expecting mothers and passionate State licensed midwives, introducing a family of midwives focused on your maternity care. Our midwives are a collaboration of independent practices, following the guidelines of midwifery and state licensing, making it more likely to find someone who is authentic and special to you, as your provider. We have developed the tools needed to take the lottery out of your birth experience when it comes to who your provider is, we have come a long way since becoming the first licensed birth center in the State of Alaska in 2009.

We are raising funds to achieve:

American Association of Birth Centers accreditation. We are 1/2 paid for inspection fees. It requires over $4,000 plus bringing inspectors up from the lower 48 to achieve this status. Unlike other major medical insurances, or state medicaid insurance this certification is required to be reimbursed by Tricare for facility fees. Tricare is our military insurance. Obtaining this certification will bring more possibilities for peaceful birth for the military in our community.

Cooperative supply house for local medical providers to gain access to smaller quantities of medical supplies at lower cost, avoiding delays that we, as Alaskans, sometimes experience in getting supplies in a timely manner.

Improve access for the facility. Our goal is to add wheelchair access at our end of the building, back exit for private entry, remodel our donation area, and redesign our smaller birth room.

Expand our fresh food donation days. We stopped advertising our food days about 10 months ago, because we run out of food. We turn away families every week and would like to assist every family in need.

Financially: advertising, fundraising campaigns, grant applications,and debt & cash flow management. This entire project is currently run off the commitment of volunteers in our community. The overhead for our project is high and we hear most often from mother’s in the community, “we did not even know this was here for us”.

Our community of clinical staff midwives await. Call us at 907-349-3054 today to find out what is possible!