C.R.S.
Section 12-225-103
Definitions
(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.
Source:
Section 12-225-103 — Definitions, https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-12.pdf
(accessed Oct. 20, 2023).