
2025
EVENTS

Opening Event! Beloved Birth 50 By 50 Keynote Speech at the 2025 AABC Birth Institute
On Saturday, September 13, the eve of BCW25, BCE Co-Founder and CEO Leseliey Welch will give the keynote speech at the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) gathering in Portland, Oregon.

Calling All Student Midwives! Careers In Birth Centers
Please join us for this interactive workshop where midwifery educators, birth center leaders, and midwifery students will share information and experience about what it means to prepare for, transition into, and work as a birth center based midwife.

Midwives Moving Policy: State Wins & Strategy in 2025
Join us to learn what’s winning and emerging in state level policy today, led by midwives and birth center leaders in our own communities, for our own communities.

Lessons from the South: Midwives & Birth Centers Leading In Times of Crisis
On Saturday, September 13, the eve of BCW25, BCE Co-Founder and CEO Leseliey Welch will give the keynote speech at the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) gathering in Portland, Oregon.