Why Give Birth at a Birth Centre?

Birth centres offer a home-like setting

Ontario’s  birth centres include the following features:

• large, private, comfortable birthing rooms
• special amenities (like large birth tubs and suspended birth slings) to provide support, comfort and help with labour progress,
• comfortable community spaces for your visitors when they are not with you

Birth centres strive to meet the needs of diverse communities

Ontario's birth centres aim to provide family-centred, culturally safe spaces for everyone who uses them.  They specifically aim to be inclusive of communities that have historically faced marginalization (e.g. Canada’s Indigenous peoples, 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, newcomers to Canada, and members of linguistic, cultural and/or racialized minority communities).