Section 12-225-103 - DefinitionsAs 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 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.