September 14-20
BIRTH CENTER WEEK 2024
Grow Birth Centers.
Grow Community.
Birth Center Week 2024 Events
We are proud to share these incredible resources so together we can Grow Birth Centers & Grow Communities! Use the links below to find recordings of our powerful Birth Center Week 2024 sessions.
Join with us to grow a world where birth is safe, sacred, loving, and celebrated for every community.
Birth Center Week is for everyone! Families & community members; public health & policy leaders; midwives; birth center leaders & birth workers; funders & investors; birth & reproductive justice advocates… and everyone who cares about growing healthy, loving, just communities.
Get started today by ordering Birth Center Week limited edition sneakers, posters, t-shirts, tote bags, stickers, and more!
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Introducing BCW24's Poster Artist: Raina Beigler
BCW's poster artist is Raina Beigler, who came to us through a national public call for artists. Raina Beigler is a Black, queer, collage artist, birthworker, budding herbalist and fantasy book lover. With collage as her medium, Raina uses images from paper magazines purposefully to address the lack of Black women in media today. She is inspired by the natural world and uses that inspiration in all of her work. By sharing her art with folks, Raina hopes other Black women can feel the connection we all have with nature and that art can and should be accessible to all.
The Woman in the Photo:
Meet Lisa Addo
Birth Center Week is honored to feature Lisa Addo in this year's artwork. Lisa is a devoted wife and mother of two young children, both welcomed into the world with the compassionate care of doulas and midwives. With proud Ghanaian heritage and a background in real estate and fashion marketing, Lisa excels in creating beautiful, resonant experiences, as a Creative Director and Interior Stylist. Whether marketing a property or strategizing a campaign, she has the ability to transform spaces and moments into memorable experiences. Understanding that our surroundings also extend to the digital space, Lisa has produced social content for brands like Google Pixel, Honest, and Anastasia Beverly Hills, to help other black women see themselves in the highest of possibilities. At the heart of her work is a dedication to "look good, feel good"—a philosophy that underscores the connection between our surroundings and our well-being.
Follow Lisa on IG @lisa_addo
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Imagine a world where birth is safe, sacred, loving, and celebrated for every community …
… where all birthing people have the opportunity to birth with midwives in a community birth center designed in response to the dreams, hopes, and needs of the community they call home.
A safe and loving world is being born right now, in community birth centers from Seattle to Dallas to Boston to San Juan.
Photo: Leilani Rogers
A community birth center is a freestanding homelike place where safe, culturally-reverent midwifery care is available to all birthing people.
Through birth centers, communities come together to ensure safety and dignity for all birthing people, and to connect with each other in community workshops, gardens, health fairs, and block parties. Through midwifery and birth centers the social nature of birth is restored.
Community birth centers create beloved economies…
…by infusing new resources and energy into communities that have been systematically denied adequate and equitable resources;
Community birth centers generate solutions to racial disparities and inequities in birthing…
…that create unsafe conditions for all birthing people, especially Black, Indigenous, people of color birthing people; and
Community birth centers lead…
…in creating a midwifery-led, people-centered perinatal health care system that works for everyone.
