September 14-20

BIRTH CENTER WEEK 2024

Grow Birth Centers.
Grow Community.

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Close-up of a vibrant pink and purple orchid flower with detailed petals and center.
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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.

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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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Pair of legs wearing black laced sneakers with a vibrant, pink and purple floral pattern and text reading 'WATER' and 'ENFANTER' inside, against a white background.
Poster promoting Birth Center Week from September 14-20, 2024, featuring a smiling woman holding a baby, with flowers, a brain, and soil imagery; text in Spanish and English emphasizing centers of birth in community.
A dark gray baby onesie with colorful text and floral graphics, on a whimsical hand-drawn background featuring flowers, strawberries, stars, a sun, a number, and pencils.

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A collage featuring a smiling woman holding a young girl, surrounded by pink orchids, with a graphic of a seed sprouting from soil and green leaves at the bottom.

To order your own copy of this beautiful poster, please click here to shop!

Introducing BCW24's Poster Artist: Raina Beigler

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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

Our Growing List of Partner Organizations!

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Black heart outline with the word "BIRTHFUND" below, in bold and regular font, on a white background.
Logo for Black Mamas Matter Alliance with a stylized afro-haired woman’s profile and the acronym BMMA in large letters, with full name below.
Logo of the National Black Midwives Alliance featuring a stylized illustration of a Black woman with a colorful headwrap and earrings, surrounded by the organization name and the words "Legacy, Power, Voice."
A stylized illustration of a person holding a baby with colorful patterns, with the text 'Indigenous Birth' below.
Green circle logo featuring a stylized white elephant with a leaf on its trunk, and the text 'the elephant circle'
Logo of the Northern South Justice Network featuring a purple profile of a person's head with a crown, and the text 'Northern South Justice Network' with 'Southern' written vertically to the left.
Logo for Orchid Capital Collective featuring a purple ginkgo leaf and the company name in purple text.
Logo for Primary Maternity Care featuring a geometric heart shape in shades of pink, cream, and navy blue, with the text 'Primary Maternity Care' in bold navy blue letters.
Logo of the national partnership for women and families with black text and two red curved shapes on sides.
Logo of the American Association of Birth Centers featuring stylized leaves and the organization's name.
Logo of the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives featuring a gold geometric symbol and text.
Logo with a silhouette of a Black woman with natural hair, a gold crown, and hoop earrings, with the word 'Rh' and text 'Birth, but we dropped the B for bias' inside a circle.
Logo celebrating the 30th anniversary of the reproductive justice movement, featuring the words Sister Song Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, with a stylized zero and the words "30 Sister Song" inside the zero.
Logo for Commonsense Childbirth with a graphic of a mother holding a baby and text emphasizing equitable perinatal care for every person at every time.
Illustration of a mother holding her child, with the text 'Every Mother Counts' in orange, celebrating motherhood and raising awareness.

Imagine a world where birth is safe, sacred, loving, and celebrated for every community …

Woman smiling and holding a baby, both looking at the camera. Woman has short brown hair, wearing a black top with colorful embroidery. Baby has dark hair, wearing a light blue hoodie with polka dots and a bib that says 'I look' with colorful designs.
A woman with blonde dreadlocks gives a demonstration on a pregnant woman's stomach, surrounded by children who are watching closely.

… 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 woman holding a newborn baby in a hospital room with two visitors, one sitting on the bed and one standing, all smiling and engaging with the baby.
A man holding a sleeping newborn baby on his chest, resting in a hospital bed.

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

A woman holding a newborn baby with two young children sitting beside her, all making playful expressions.

Photo: Leilani Rogers

A nurse in black scrubs with a pink stethoscope holding a newborn baby

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.