{"id":2237,"date":"2020-04-05T12:29:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T12:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.uchealth.org\/location\/uchealth-center-for-midwifery-lowry\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T21:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T21:13:23","slug":"uchealth-center-for-midwifery-lowry","status":"publish","type":"uch_location","link":"https:\/\/stage.uchealth.org\/locations\/uchealth-center-for-midwifery-lowry\/","title":{"rendered":"UCHealth Center for Midwifery &#8211; Lowry"},"content":{"rendered":"Experience the comfort of holistic, personalized midwifery care with the assurance and options of modern medicine.\r\n\r\nAt the UCHealth Center for Midwifery, a service provided by UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, we care for the low-risk woman throughout <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/services\/womens-care\/pregnancy-childbirth-newborn-care\/\">pregnancy, birth and beyond<\/a>. Our goal is to help you realize the birth experience you envision in a supportive, caring environment.\r\n\r\nWe care for women and families throughout their prenatal, labor, birth and postpartum period. Our goal is to help you achieve the birth experience you envision in a supportive, caring environment through a partnership with our midwives and staff.\r\n\r\nWe strive to give you the most updated information and comprehensive care to facilitate an empowering labor and birth experience through high touch, personalized care.\r\n\r\nOur midwives deliver babies at <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.uchealth.org\/locations\/uchealth-womens-care-center-university-of-colorado-hospital\/\">University of Colorado Hospital Birth Center<\/a>.\r\n<h3>Midwife expertise<\/h3>\r\nCertified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) are experts in pregnancy and birth using evidence-based approaches within a nurturing supportive environment. CNMs can provide care to all women throughout their lifetimes.\r\n\r\nAll of our CNMs hold at least a master\u2019s degree and are board certified.\n\n\n<h2 id=\"midwifery-services\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Midwifery services<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Annual exams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stage.uchealth.org\/services\/womens-care\/pregnancy-childbirth-newborn-care\/breastfeeding-support\/\"><u>Breastfeeding support<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collaboration and coordination of care with other healthcare specialties<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.uchealth.org\/services\/womens-care\/pregnancy-childbirth-newborn-care\/prenatal-care\/\"><u>prenatal care<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Family planning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gynecological care<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Health promotion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Individualized birth experience unique to each family<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Labor support and management<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stage.uchealth.org\/diseases-conditions\/menopause-and-perimenopause\/\"><u>Menopause<\/u><\/a> care<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nitrous oxide for labor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Postpartum care<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pre-conception counseling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stage.uchealth.org\/services\/womens-care\/midwifery-services\/water-birth\/\"><u>Water birth<\/u><\/a>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>University of Colorado Hospital is the only hospital in metro Denver to offer water birth as an in hospital birth option. <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vaginal birth after cesarean section (VBAC)<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"our-approach-and-supportive-options\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our approach and supportive options<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our Center for Midwifery providers focus on the natural, healthy aspects of women\u2019s care and work with you to decide what is right for you, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Natural childbirth<\/strong> with or without pain medicine such as epidural anesthesia or intravenous pain relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nitrous oxide<\/strong>, also called \u201claughing gas,\u201d for labor. This colorless, odorless and tasteless gas can decrease pain. We were the first and one of the only hospitals in the region to offer this option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Complementary healing<\/strong> options through collaboration with other University of Colorado Hospital specialists and partner services, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prenatal massage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chiropractic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Acupuncture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Herbal therapies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aromatherapy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doula support services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Childbirth education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lactation consultation<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Water births<\/strong> for the experience of calmness and relaxation in a birth pool or tub. We are the only facility in the metro Denver area to offer <a href=\"\/services\/womens-care\/midwifery-services\/water-birth\/\">water births<\/a> as an in-hospital birth option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"virtual-birth-center-tour\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Virtual birth center tour<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"University of Colorado Hospital Birthing Center Virtual Tour\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nF19x_W0-8A?feature=oembed&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;showinfo=0&#038;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"have-questions-get-answers\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Have questions? Get answers!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get helpful information from UCHealth Obstetrics and Gynecology staff members who offer insight into epidurals, breech birth, erythromycin, newborn screenings, preeclampsia, sleep positions, betamethasone, birth control, inducing labor, certified midwifery, what to bring to the hospital and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLtzi2XpYJaIanALvGdZzAeC_bnyeyokn9\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#a6093d;border-color:#850831;border-radius:50px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:0px 24px;font-size:18px;line-height:36px;border-color:#c15378;border-radius:50px;text-shadow:none\"> Watch videos<\/span><\/a>\n","protected":false},"author":2356,"featured_media":138,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-2237","uch_location","type-uch_location","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.uchealth.org\/locations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uch_location\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.uchealth.org\/locations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uch_location"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.uchealth.org\/locations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uch_location"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.uchealth.org\/locations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.uchealth.org\/locations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.uchealth.org\/locations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}