one comment | Encinitas obstetricians Dr. Robert Biter and Dr. Nick Capetanakis are in the works to break ground on a ground-breaking birth center.
Dr. Biter, whose current project is co-owning Babies by the Sea Boutique, a shop for mommy and baby in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, has plans to build an innovative birthing center that features ob-gyns and midwives working side by side.
The holistically-themed birth center will be nature-friendly, consciously built with the environment in mind, Capetanakis said.
It will also be natural-birth friendly and feature surgical rooms in case a patient opts for-or needs-medical intervention.
“The idea is to create a birthing center where it’s free from the hospital so you don’t necessarily have to worry about the ills of the hospital,” Capetanakis said.
At the same time, he added, it will have the same benefits of a hospital, such as an operating room and anesthesiologists on hand.
Partners Biter and Capetanakis aim to open the center within the next year at a location in Carlsbad.
Jennifer Reed is SDNN’s health and wellness editor. She can be reached at jennifer.reed(at)sdnn.com.
Tags: Babies by the Sea Boutique, birth center, Dr. Nick Capetanakis, Dr. Robert Biter, Encinitas ob-gyn, midwife, obstetrician, SDNN
Comment by: Ann Fulcher Posted: January 22, 2010, 9:34 am
I’m the program manager for the UCSD Hearts & Hands Volunteer Doula Program, and I would like to clarify that Patricia Osinski is not now, nor ever has she even been a Hearts & Hands Doula.