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BIRTH CENTER WEEK 2025

We Are Beloved Birth

September 14-20

Birth Center Week 2025 Events

Each year, Birth Center Week brings together virtual events, stories, and voices from across the country to uplift birth centers and community birth.

Join with us to grow a world of Beloved Birth…

…where all people birth safely with dignity and love…

…with birth care that is family centered, midwife-led, and respects all people.

Order Your Birth Center Week T-Shirt Today!

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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.

Click below to order BCW25
t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, and more!

Birth centers are the only healthcare facilities designed to center the midwifery model of care.

Birth care provided by midwives is the solution to a failing birth care system. Research shows that midwifery care improves birth outcomes, enhances the care experience, is cost effective, and reduces inequities. 

A birth center is a home-like place where midwives provide prenatal, birth, and postpartum care.

Research shows that birth center care improves birth outcomes and increases satisfaction. Midwives are healthcare professionals who provide expert care, support, and guidance during pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and throughout our reproductive lives. 

Community birth centers provide safe, culturally-reverent care to meet the needs of communities of color facing high maternal and infant mortality rates.

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Our Growing List of Partner Organizations!

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Illustration of a woman hugging a child with the words "Every Mother Counts" in orange text.
Black hand-drawn heart with the text 'BIRTHFUND' below, in black and white.
Logo for Black Mamas Matter Alliance with large red and purple gradient acronym BMMA and a silhouette of a woman's afro hairstyle on the left.
Logo of the National Black Midwives Alliance featuring a stylized woman wearing a colorful headwrap, earrings, and holding a stethoscope, with words 'Legacy Power Voice' around the border.
Logo of Indigenous Birth showing an Indigenous woman holding a baby wrapped in a multicolored blanket.
Green circle logo with a white elephant outline and the words 'the elephant circle' inside.
Logo of the Southern Earth Justice Network with purple and yellow colors, featuring a silhouette of a person's profile with a crown above their head and a colorful afro hairstyle.
Logo for Orchid Capital Collective featuring a purple ginkgo leaf design and purple text on a white background.
Logo for Primary Maternity Care featuring a stylized heart made of three geometric shapes in navy blue, light pink, and cream, with the words 'Primary Maternity Care' in bold navy blue text.
Logo of the National Partnership for Women & Families featuring black text with red semicircle accents.
Logo of the American Association of Birth Centers with stylized leaves in a circle next to the organization's name.
Logo of the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM) featuring a gold geometric emblem and text.
Logo featuring a silhouette of a woman with an afro hairstyle, wearing a crown and jewelry, with the text 'Rh' and a quote about bias in birth.
Logo celebrating the 30th anniversary of the reproductive justice movement, featuring the words Sister Song Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective.
Logo for Commonsense Childbirth emphasizing equitable perinatal care and support for every person at every time.

Imagine a world where all people birth safely with dignity and love…

Three women are performing a medical procedure on a pregnant woman lying on her back, surrounded by a decorative border of green leaves and yellow and orange flowers.

… 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 birth center they call home.

A woman with a colorful headwrap holding a baby, surrounded by a border of orange and purple flowers, with a blue butterfly.

A safe and loving world is being born right now, in community birth centers from Seattle to Dallas to Boston to San Juan.