Colorado Revised Statutes Title 25. Health § 25-3-126. Health facilities--requirements related to labor and childbirth--rules--definitions

(a) Allows every birthing person to have a companion or doula with the person during birth in addition to a partner or spouse;

(b) Prioritizes newborns bonding with their families in order to facilitate the physiologic postpartum process;

(c) Will not exclude from care any person experiencing physiologic birth or interrupt the process of physiologic birth without the informed consent of the birthing person;

(d) Details the facility's process related to receiving a pregnant person's patient information from any provider regulated under title 12 who has provided care for the pregnant person;

(e) Establishes processes to transfer and receive pregnant persons across levels of care of licensed facilities within the facility's capacity and capability; and

(f) Establishes a process to receive individuals who are pregnant, undergoing physiologic birth, or in the physiologic postpartum process from locations other than licensed facilities, including a process to receive verbal and written information from individuals with relevant information, including but not limited to family members, doulas, or a health-care provider regulated under title 12.

(a) Prioritizes newborns bonding with their families in order to facilitate the physiologic postpartum process, unless:

(b) Will not exclude from care any person experiencing physiologic birth or interrupt the process of physiologic birth without the informed consent of the birthing person.

(a) “Doula” means a person who provides physical, emotional, and informational support to a pregnant person before, during, and after pregnancy.

(b) “Physiologic birth” means labor and birth powered by the innate human capacity of a pregnant person and the pregnant person’s fetus, which includes endogenous hormone systems.

(c) “Physiologic postpartum process” means the biologic process that happens to both the newborn and birthing person after delivery due to endogenous hormone systems.