Mountain Midwifery Center Stats

This is so exciting to read....but many women in Denver are having great births at our birthing center.  Here is the lastest:

Mountain Midwifery Center
Statistics
September 17, 2006-September 30, 2010 (48 months)

Registered for care and reach term and/or risk-out (includes AP transfers, move, etc.)
943

Antepartum transfers (financial issues, move, GDM, preeclampsia, PTL, multiples,
breech)
127

Pre-Admit Intrapartum Referral: risk factor that is found before admission that makes
birth center care inappropriate. Examples include malpresentation on admission, fever,
prolonged prodromal labor, meconium stained fluid, rupture of membranes > 24 hours
with no labor, hypertension on arrival.
49

Admitted to MMC in labor
816

Intrapartum transfers: risk factor such as failure to progress, meconium in active labor
after admission, fetal distress
104
Overall IP transfer rate 12.7%

Births in MMC
Year 1 67
Year 2 120
Year 3 265
Year 4 264
Total 716

Cesarean Section Rate: c/s divided by birth center admission
6.9% (57/816)

Postpartum transfers: PPH, retained placenta, laceration repair
23

Newborn transfers: TTN, 2 anomalies
16

GBS rate 7%

Waterbirth rate 41%