Puget Sound Birth Center

04/20/2026

It’s been a beautifully blissful, birthy kind of weekend. 10 sweet new babies in 6 days. Our midwives have full hearts and heavy eyelids! Congrats to all of our growing families! ✨☀️🌙

04/08/2026

What a beautiful compliment from one of our clients and local providers! "I really liked the care of the team, the experience and professionalism of the midwives, and the overall experience that I had. I was just telling Heather today that my child's primary care provider told me how every mother who delivered at a birth center with a midwife looks so much more relaxed and healthier than those who delivered at a hospital. And I think this birth center is a great example of that." 🥰

03/25/2026

Did you know that your insurance may cover some or all of the cost of a Doula? Doulas are great support during pregnancy/birth/postpartum. Reach out to your insurance company to learn what your plan offers! PS, Medicaid Plans cover doulas!

While more Medicaid patients and even some on private plans have gained doula coverage in recent years, United is the first major insurer to begin rolling out the benefit nationwide.

03/24/2026

Spring is here! The sun was rising as a beautiful babe came earthside. What a gorgeous sunrise indeed…⛅️

03/21/2026

Wow. We are just so proud of these gorgeous midwives. They are part of our PSBC family. They entered our lives as our students and then we hired each of them as a part of our practices. They are now out in the community and still very much a part of us. If we need coverage, we call them first. And if they need coverage, they call us first.
They saw a need in Snohomish County and they answered it. It’s a lot of hard work to own/manage/run a birth center. If anyone can do it, it’s these 3 incredible midwives. ✨👑
We wish you the most success. We are here to support you today and always. Congratulations on the birth of the Everett Birth Center!! 🤍✨

03/19/2026

Let’s hear it! How did your water break? Was it a gush? A trickle? Did you feel/hear a “pop”? ☔️

03/13/2026

Apparently, Friday, March 13 is a very good day to be born! ✨✨

03/03/2026

Let’s have a couple of babies! I guess that full moon is really drawing them out?! 😍🌕

03/02/2026

Come and visit us Friday for lactation support!

02/28/2026

We hosted an NRP (neonatal resuscitation) class for Birth Assistants and Community Midwives this week. We take training seriously to ensure that in the rare case we need to assist your baby, we are ready for it.

NRP recert! The 9th edition is out. We hosted midwives and assistants at Puget Sound Birth Center for some hands on skills! We've been doing this for awhile now... (24 years) and we still learn new things!

02/20/2026

❤️❤️ it’s a good start!

"Midwifery models of care are models of care in which the main care providers for women and newborns, starting from pre-pregnancy and continuing all the way through the postnatal period, are educated, licensed, regulated midwives who autonomously provide and coordinate respectful, high- quality care across their full scope of practice, using an approach that is aligned with the midwifery philosophy of care, which:

i. promotes a person-centred approach to care;
ii. values the woman–midwife relationship and partnership;
iii. optimizes physiological, biological, psychological, social and cultural processes; and iv. uses interventions only when indicated.
In midwifery models of care, midwives provide integrated care, addressing the needs of each individual woman and newborn, within functional and enabling health systems, equipped with necessary resources and streamlined consultation and referral processes. They collaborate within networks of care as part of interdisciplinary teams characterized by equality, trust and respect. This approach guarantees that every woman and newborn receives personalized care, tailored to their health needs.

Midwifery models of care are adaptable to all levels of care and contexts, including home-, community- and hospital-based settings; the public and private sectors and public–private partnerships; resource-constrained environments; and humanitarian and crisis settings. This ensures wide accessibility, equity and relevance across different cultural contexts for women, newborns, partners, families and communities."

Read More: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240098268

02/07/2026

Our community is in need of more midwives! Many of our local midwives have graduated from MCU. If you feel called, check it out!