We must act quickly to fortify established birth centers, and make birth centers a real option for birthing people in every city.
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“Is your birth center open?” the worried voice said on the phone.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have received a growing number of calls like this. These callers, often people far along in their pregnancy, want a safe place to give birth, somewhere that is not a hospital overwhelmed with COVID-19. What they seek is the safety of a freestanding birth center, a homelike facility where prenatal, labor, birth, and postpartum care is provided in the midwifery and wellness model. But right now, our heartbreaking answer to each caller in Detroit and Boston, where we are raising funds to open birth centers, is “No, not yet.”
In the coming six weeks, roughly 400,000 babies are expected to be born in the United States, based on 2018 numbers. But in communities across the country, people—especially Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC)—have little to no access to birth center care. As a result, they are being subjected to a health-care environment that pits their human right to birth in a trauma-free setting against a flailing system’s response to a global crisis. We, the leaders of Neighborhood Birth Center (Boston) and Birth Detroit, have been working to ensure that birth centers are a real option for pregnant people in our communities, and to develop a birthing infrastructure that transforms the culture of birth for generations to come.

A Water Birth May Be Perfect For You!

• Have you considered having a water birth?
• How does water help you during labor?

The below article is a good source for all these questions being answered. Enjoy reading!

​The below article is a great resource for understanding the position of the doula during birth.

• Who is the doula?
• Have you ever wondered what a doula does?

Most people believe that to have a “natural” childbirth at a birth center and NOT at a hospital is an unusual and unscientific way of having a baby. Here we will explore why this may be the best way to have a baby... "It’s Primitive," she said… You can only know what you have been exposed to. “Natural Childbirth” may seem silly in this day and age. But the truth is man-kind has done little to improve the experience since the great migration to hospital birth in the early 1900s.
This article explains the increase in Maternal Mortality Rates In The United States. This was posted by Healthimpactnews.com. 

Here’s the title:  OBSCENE Increase in Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States…       
The definition for obscene is, "offensive or disgusting by accepted standards of morality and decency.  That is pretty strong language… but after reading the statistics I had to agree.
As you may already know, United States, of all other industrialized countries spends the most money on health care... so how can this situation be happening?
According to the latest figures from the World Health Organization, the  United States maternal death rate has doubled, going from 12 maternal deaths per 100,000 per year to a 28 maternal deaths per 100,000 per year... This statistic does not touch on the morbidity rate either. Morbidity relates to the diseases caused by the way you are treated during your birth, such as pelvic floor damage from forced pushing too early or episiotomy; or lifelong implications from cesarean section. 
Out of hospital birth allows you to avoid unnecessary interventions which themselves can cause complications and lead to more interventions. Beginning with a midwife in the out of hospital setting reduces morbidity.