As used in this article 225, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) 'Birth center' means a freestanding facility licensed by the department of public health and environment that:(a) Is not a hospital, attached to a hospital, or located in a hospital;(b) Provides prenatal, labor, delivery, and postpartum care to low-risk pregnant persons and newborns; and(c) Provides care during delivery and immediately after delivery that is generally less than twenty-four hours in duration.(1.5) 'Client' means a pregnant woman for whom a direct-entry midwife performs services. For purposes of perinatal or postpartum care, 'client' includes the woman's newborn.(2) 'Direct-entry midwife' means a person who practices direct-entry midwifery.(3) 'Direct-entry midwifery' or 'practice of direct-entry midwifery' means the advising, attending, or assisting of a woman during pregnancy, labor and natural childbirth at home or at a birth center, and the postpartum period in accordance with this article 225.(4) 'Natural childbirth' means the birth of a child without the use of instruments, surgical procedures, or prescription drugs other than those for which the direct-entry midwife has specific authority ) 'Natural childbirth' means the birth of a child without the use of instruments, surgical procedures, or prescription drugs other than those for which the direct-entry midwife has specific authority under this article 225 to obtain and administer.(5) 'Perinatal' means the period from the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy through seven days after birth.(6) 'Postpartum period' means the period of six weeks after birth.Amended by 2021 Ch. 196, § 3, eff. 9/1/2021.Renumbered from C.R.S. § 12-37-102 and amended by 2019 Ch. 136, § 1, eff. 10/1/2019.This section is similar to former § 12-37-102 as it existed prior to 2019.
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