When Jaimie Rose and her husband Ryan found out they were expecting their second child in January of 2020, they decided to move from Georgia to Florida. Then, before the first trimester was over, COVID hit. “I started to panic,” Jaimie, 33, remembers. “How are we going to have a birth in the hospital?” The Roses had no family in Florida and a two-year-old with developmental delays. Pandemic-imposed hospital restrictions combined with a bad birthing experience in the hospital with her second born (Jaimie also has an older daughter from a previous relationship) led the Roses to explore the option of out-of-hospital birth. Through their spiritual community they found a midwife they liked and trusted and a doula to assist them. They decided to have the baby at a freestanding birth center, Palms Birth House, in Delray Beach, in a home-like setting. The birth house was about a 5-hour drive …