Birth Center Midwives

Birth centers include a team of highly qualified professionals from midwifery, nursing, obstetrics, family medicine, pediatrics, nutrition, social work, physical fitness, childbirth, and parenting education.

Birth Centers are a place that gives you a caring, warm, and home-like environment where you are supported and respected as well as safe and secure. You will have a private room for giving birth where you can:
  • Make yourself comfortable.
  • Wear your own clothing.
  • Eat when you feel hungry.
  • Soak in a tub or have a water birth.
Birth centers welcome your children, your parents, and your friends so you can decide who will be with you or near you as you give birth.

Birth centers give you continuing support; holistic pain management; and information on infant care, breastfeeding, parenting, and family planning.

Women who choose to birth in a birth center would not have access to epidurals or an extensive list of pain medications, but do have the opportunity to use the non-pharmacological techniques discussed above.  Birth Centers carry the necessary medications, oxygen, techniques and training needed to handle many common birth-related issues.  The C-section rate for women who begin care in birth centers is very low, around 6% compared to the national average of 33%.(1)

Integrated Part of the Health Care System

Birth Centers are part of the system of quality health care in many communities.
 You receive a complete network of maternity and women's health services including:
  • Laboratory, ultrasounds, and other diagnostic testing.
  • Consultation with physicians as necessary.
  • Transfer to a hospital if the need should arise.
Birth Center care is covered by most major health insurance plans and Medi-Cal.

(1) Stapleton, S. R., Osborne, C., & Illuzzi, J. (2013). Outcomes of care in birth Centers: Demonstration of a durable model.  Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 58(1), 3-14.
A Family Affair Birth Center
858-278-2930

Acorn Community Birth & Wellness Center
760-645-3447

Babies in Bloom
Birth & Wellness Center
760-940-2229

Best Start Birth Center
800-479-BABY

Birth Roots Birth Center 
619- 409-4900

​Tourmaline Birth and Wellness Collective 
619- 535-9408

Tree of Life for Healthy Birthing & Parenting
760-230-6077