When Theresa and Jeff found out Theresa was pregnant in July 2008, they decided they wanted to take a less medical approach to pregnancy and opted for what they hoped would be a more personal, supportive experience. They sought out midwives and chose to have Theresa's prenatal care provided by Cooley Dickinson's Center for Midwifery Care.

When Samantha Rohan learned she was pregnant and chose the Cooley Dickinson Center for Midwifery Care, this is what she was thinking: "I wasn't sick. I was just pregnant, so I didn't need to see a doctor."

As a patient at Cooley Dickinson's Center for Midwifery Care, all went according to plan for Nunia Mafi during her first pregnancy. That is, until June 1, three days after her due date, when she woke up in labor, and a routine internal exam didn't feel to Midwife Judie Brock the way it had just a week before.

It's a short walk from the Cooley Dickinson Center for Midwifery Care to the main hospital and its Childbirth Center – unless, of course, you're a woman in labor and ready to give birth.

First Infant Born in Cooley Dickinson Hospital Birthing Tub Becky Jacobsen of West Springfield became the first expectant mother to deliver her infant in Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s Childbirth Center’s new birthing tub on Feb 7, 2010.