Rhode Island currently has five hospitals with labor and delivery services, no birthing center and licensed home birth providers. Each have different outcomes and different offerings to birthing people. Take time to understand your options.

Rhode Island has midwives licensed to offer home birth care. RI does not currently have a birth center. (Learn more about that here). Learn more about birthing at home in our community.

Prenatal care is offered by midwives, family medicine physicians and obstetricians. For many people, your choice in provider impacts the outcome of your pregnancy and birth more than your individual health. Learn more about Rhode Island’s provider options.

Doula care is now covered by all Rhode Island Medicaid and fully insured commercial plans. The presence of a doula significantly improves birth and postpartum outcomes and mitigates the racial disparities in maternal and infant morbidity and mortality.

Need a doula? Call 1-833-RI-DOULA or click the button below.

Quality childbirth education helps improve outcomes for birthing people and their families, practitioners, hospitals, and communities by reducing unnecessary birth procedures, reducing cesarean birth rates and associated complications, and increasing shared decision-making and breastfeeding success rates.

Having support from someone with shared lived experience has been shown to improve the quality of life, whole body health, including chronic conditions, and mental health of birthing people. This can be from a formal or professional peer support group or from peers in your community.