We toured Valley Medical Center today. It was difficult to navigate, for one (we ended up in the pediatric area first, only to head upstairs to the birth center). The tour was ok, the rooms were ok, but neither of us felt it lived up the expectations we had. The rooms were a little bigger, but felt a little more cluttered. They didn’t move people from a delivery room to a mom&baby room, but they didn’t appear to have telemetry for monitoring. The person giving the tour we had couldn’t really say much about policy mandated interventions, other than they usually go with the doctor’s preference, and that people coming in should probably have something written up if there are fairly standard things that they don’t want.

So, still leaning towards the birthing center.