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Our experienced team provides compassionate, informed, family-centered prenatal, birth and postpartum care in our facility or your home.
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2009 Flour Bluff Drive
Corpus Christi, TX
78418
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Our Story
Our “story” is a long one. We would love to share more with you if you want to hear the “longer version.” This is actually the “abbreviated version.”
The Birth Center story begins with our founder and the current owner, Beth Overton. Beth began her midwifery journey in 1995 (25 years ago). Beth spent 3 years in schooling and apprenticeship with some of the finest midwives in the state and even traveled out of state to get additional training in Florida. But Beth accredits her most valuable education to Helen Jolly Nelson and her staff midwives at Family Birth Services in the DFW metroplex. Helen is retired now but still active serving on our state’s midwifery board. She and Beth have remained good friends and kept in touch all these years. At one time, Helen was given the nickname the “grandmother” of midwifery in Texas because she has done so much for Texas midwives. This was Beth’s mentor.
There were no birth centers in Corpus Christi at the time Beth began to study, and only one other midwife in the area, who never had any formal training herself. So Beth decided to travel to get a more formal education, not only because the state required it but because that was what she wanted. After completing her education, Beth was licensed and began a home birth practice, which steadily grew over the next 14 years.
During her home birth years, Beth became heavily involved in her midwifery organization and served as President of that organization. She also served on several committees for the State Midwifery Board during an extremely important legislative time for midwives between 2002-2003. It was during this critical time in history for midwives in Texas and under Beth’s leadership, that Texas midwives were able to finally become “licensed” in Texas. Prior to that, midwives were not considered licensed, they were called “documented midwives,” which simply meant they had registered with the state.
