If you are eagerly anticipating the arrival of your baby but feel apprehensive about the often impersonal, intimidating hospital experience, you are not alone. Let’s face it, for many of us, hospitals are scary places, associated with disease, pain, and even death. The hurried atmosphere, bright lights and shiny metal instruments do nothing to put a new mom’s mind at ease.

But a healthy childbirth is not necessarily a medical procedure. A woman’s body is perfectly designed to give birth with minimal assistance. It “knows” how to do it! And, throughout the ages and in all cultures, women have helped other women give birth safely.  Midwives have been assigned the special role of facilitating a woman’s birthing experience by offering their accumulated knowledge and experience, but in a much more relaxing setting.

Heart 2 Heart Birth Center was established by Michelle Graf-Dixon  and fellow midwife and best friend, Lynn Deer, both Florida-licensed midwifes since 1997, and previous co-owners of Special Delivery Midwifery Services (a homebirth practice). Karen Bove, graduating from the same midwifery school and class as Michelle and Lyn, joined them in 2013. Located in Sanford, Heart 2 Heart has evolved to effectively meet the needs of its clients and the surrounding community’s desire for natural childbirth options. The luxurious Victorian-style center is a “home away from home birth center ” that offers complete birthing services in a home-like setting that cannot be found elsewhere. Come in and enjoy a cookie and a cup of tea while they complete your prenatal visit. Let Heart 2 Heart guide and educate you about the birth process in such a way that it will be as stress-free and comfortable as it can be.

“I would birth again at Heart 2 Heart. It was the most comfortable, welcoming, supportive, loving and nurturing place for me. The midwives are like my family now, it’s a bond that is forever embedded in my heart. I couldn’t of asked for a better place and a better team! I have also had a hospital birth and I would not birth in a hospital again, as that usually doesn’t support a non-medicated or non-intrusive birth experience” Gina S.

Heart 2 Heart provides the same services as an OB-GYN: labwork, sonograms, fetal growth monitoring, etc., but its care is given in a way that is much more personal and nurturing. Its primary goal is not to manage your pregnancy and birth FOR YOU, but rather to guide YOU THROUGH IT, in such a way that it will be the joyous and wonderful experience it was meant to be. To put hesitant couples’ minds at ease, they are conveniently located across the street from a hospital with labor and delivery if their services are needed?

A multitude of additional services are offered, such as:  Well Woman’s Care/Gynecology, Birth Control/Natural Family Planning, Pampered Mama Spa Day, Belly Casts & Henna Tattoos, Childbirth Education Classes,  Nutritional Counseling/Juice Plus,  Doula Care,  Water Birth, and  Lactation Services.

“We had our first baby here and we loved it! The midwives along with the rest of the staff are great and the environment is very homey. I very much appreciated the mindset of pregnancy being a healthy, normal function versus being a disease. I felt very safe and comfortable throughout the pregnancy. During the birth I received both encouragement and gentle reassurance that helped me feel like I could make it through.” Alyssa R.

Every mom deserves the best. Every mom deserves Heart 2 Heart Birth Center. For more information, please visit www.h2hbirthcenter.com or call (407) 322-9944.