Community Birth Center - WA

05/11/2025

Happy Mother’s Day to all!!

08/22/2024

How do I deliver with Community Birth Center?

1. Tour the birth center.
Community Birth Center offers free tours and consultations. To schedule a tour please send us a text with your name and due date, or send us an email.

2. Establish care with a CBC Midwife.
Credentialed Midwives at the Community Birth Center can be found on our website. Once you've established care, notify your midwife that you would like to deliver at the CBC.

3. Complete registration paperwork and submit $100 registration fee at time of registration to hold your spot. Due to capacity, we limit the amount of planned deliveries at our facility.

Don't forget to download the client registration packet on our website and email to: communitybirthcenter@gmail.com

To find out more, and to access the list of credentialed midwives and registration form, please visit: www.community-birthcenter.com/deliver

08/17/2024

My name is Magen Harris. I am an LMT, CE instructor, Doula, Wife and Mother. I live in Olympia with my husband and our two lovely daughters. I specialize in injury treatment, myofascial release, Manual Lymph Drainage, intraoral/TMJ release, and prenatal, labor, and postpartum Bodywork.

As long as I can remember, I have had a passion for healing. Every new modality I learn I get more fascinated with our brain’s connection to our bodies. I have had the joy of learning, growing and changing in this industry for four years. This experience has completely altered my view on the human body and how important the muscular system is to our over all health and well being. Our bodies take on so much weight, movement, trauma and change. Together we will create a treatment plan to get you one step closer to relieving the pain and discomfort that comes with the stress of our daily lives.

I look forward to meeting you!

08/14/2024

We Support You! There are many ways to give birth, and we support them all! Generations Midwifery with Community Birth Center is excited to guide you on your journey to parenthood. We are all about your birth experience, bringing our compassionate care 🌈 💚

08/07/2024

What are Monitrice Services?
~Labor support professional with clinical training
~Partners great with hospital birth situations
~Does not replace a midwife
~Can work alongside a midwife or physician to help meet birth goals
~Similar to a doula but with additional clinical assessment to guide decision-making
~Helps you to labor with minimal interventions and/or labor at home as long as possible

08/01/2024

Happy World Breastfeeding Week! Let us together strengthen global support to promote equity in access to and understanding of breastfeeding!

07/30/2024

OUR MISSION:
Our mission is to create pathways and solutions to address the maternal & infant mortality deficit among BIPGM (Black, Indigenous, People of the Global Majority) by providing accessible, healing, holistic, community-centered, and culturally matched reproductive healthcare.

07/26/2024

We did it!! The birth center suite is now in our name!

Shout out to my sweet parents & Birth Center Equity for the support on this achievement.

07/18/2024

“For many women, the baby blues go away in a few days. If these feelings don’t go away or you feel sad, hopeless, or anxious for longer than 2 weeks, you may have postpartum depression. Feeling hopeless after childbirth is not a regular or expected part of being a mother.”
- Women’s Health

Swipe to see the common signs of postpartum depression and helpful resources -->

07/09/2024

"Why Restoring Birth as Ceremony Can Promote Health Equity" Click on the link below to the paper, written by Marinah Farrell in the AMA journal of ethics, Birth Center Equity posted. Absolutely worth the read!

Until the mid-20th century, birth in the United States for Latinx Indigenous peoples was an ancestral ceremony guided by midwives and traditional healers.

07/08/2024

What are the benefits of a doula as your support system? Even those with partners or other support person(s) enjoy the benefit of having a doula present at their birth. There are some wonderful stats from the International Childbirth Education Association that shows the power of a dedicated support doula.

Did you know when you have dedicated labor support, such as a doula present during labor you are...

28% less likely to have a cesarean section
31% less likely to use synthetic oxytocin to speed up labor
9% less likely to use any pain medications
34% less likely to rate their childbirth experience negatively

07/05/2024

What is a birth center?

Birth Centers offer the space & privacy some families do not have at home. Other families choose a birth center because of its proximity to the hospital should complications arise. For many families, a birth center can offer the best of both worlds: the comfort and low-intervention of home with the professionalism of the hospital.