Colorado § 12-225-103 Definitions

Colorado Statutes

§ 12-225-103 — Definitions

Colorado § 12-225-103

Title 12Professions

Art.Direct-entry Midwives

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Bluebook

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 12-225-103 (2026).

Text

As 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-entr

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As 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.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1132, � 1, effective October 1. L. 2021: (1) and (3) amended and (1.5) added, (SB 21-101), ch. 196, p. 1049, � 3, effective September 1.