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American Association of Birth Centers

We are the nation's most comprehensive resource on birth centers. Join us!

We are midwives, physicians, nurses, doulas, childbirth educators and consumers who support the midwifery model and a woman's right to choose her place of birth.

08/06/2025

AABC goes to Boston for the NCLS Legislative Summit 2025! 🏛️🎉

We are proud to stand alongside NACPM, Grow Midwives, and DONA International to advocate for birth centers and midwives at this year's summit. It's been a wonderful conference so far!

Thank you to just a few of our state reps working to advance midwifery and birth center legislation in their states (see photos 5-7):

Representative Melanie Miller, OH
Representative Heather Boyd, PA
Representative Linda Ichiyama, HI
Representative Kathie Hess Crouse, WV

08/04/2025

✨ Make a Difference Monday! ✨

What we have already known becoming a priority to the World Health Organization is enormous news.

"The majority of maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths can be prevented with timely access to high- quality care. While improving access to care is key in mitigating maternal and neonatal mortality, morbidity and stillbirths, poor-quality care is responsible for a greater number of fatalities than lack of access to
care in low- and middle-income countries. In these settings, more than 50% of maternal deaths and over 60% of neonatal deaths could be averted with high-quality care. Worldwide, many women and newborns experience mistreatment during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal care. Overmedicalization of pregnancy and childbirth has escalated in recent decades contributing to further poor quality of care and unfavourable outcomes for women and newborns, and posing a barrier to achieving universal health coverage (UHC)."
Read more: https://iris.who.int/.../379236/9789240098268-eng.pdf.

Help us advocate for the expansion of midwifery and birth center care with a few key bills at https://www.birthcenters.org/call-to-action

08/01/2025

🌟 Help us make this year’s AABCF Gala to Grow Birth Centers unforgettable! 🌟We're ready to get Prismatic in Portland! 🌈

The AABC Foundation is gearing up for a powerful weekend in Portland this fall, including a dazzling evening that celebrates and raises funds for community, equity, and access to high-quality birth center care.

The AABC Foundation is currently seeking Silent Auction items! You can donate anything you can dream up -- handmade art and jewelry, self-care baskets or experiences, special birth stools and chairs -- there's a place for everything in the silent auction! 💍🎨🍼

As for the Gala's live auction - one of the most exciting parts of the evening - we're looking for one-of-a-kind experiences for our donors!
Think rips to a vineyard, a special Airbnb stay, a spa visit, and more! 🌅

Every item helps us build a future where every individual has access to safe, respectful, and person-centered perinatal care.
🔗 https://aabcfoundation.betterworld.org/donate-an-item

07/31/2025

Operating a birth center takes a village, and you can find yours at the AABC Birth Institute's vendor exhibit!
Whether you are looking for EHR vendors, birth pools, natural supplements for pregnancy and birth, or want to connect with advocacy groups for birth centers -- this exhibit has it all!

We are proud to bring such a diverse mix of vendors to our annual conference and cannot wait to see you all in Portland!

07/29/2025

We are grateful to see a voice with as much reach as NPR sharing such important stories about birth centers!

People face astronomical challenges with both opening and accessing birth centers, even when there is community need and desire in maternity care deserts. Communities of color face even higher stakes in these situations, as you can read in this article.

To read about Katie Chubb's efforts to open a birth center in Augusta, GA, as well as read stories from birthing people who could have greatly benefitted from birth center and midwifery care, visit https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/27/nx-s1-5479176/birth-center-hospital-pregnancy?utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=npr&fbclid=IwY2xjawL13phleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETExTlRUSXFuS0VMdHl4Z0ExAR7V1QMBMp68aX9QyewHmHQZ5D6-4mNP2LJ2R2cM69pgcPCSdrMc54xO3Dzi4w_aem_VjYehqDTsbxLChYsyO0rLg

07/28/2025

✨ Make a Difference Monday!
Join us in some of our current legislative efforts to increase access to midwifery and birth center care.

The BABIES Act ensures birth centers thrive--not just survive. These centers are more than buildings -- they're lifelines.

-Fewer interventions
-Lower costs to Medicaid
-Higher client satisfaction

The choice is obvious.
Introduced in May 2025 by Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), the Better Availability of Birth Centers Improves Outcomes and Expands Savings (BABIES) Act (S.1598) would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a demonstration project under the Medicaid program in six states in areas identified a having limited access to maternity care.
Repost this. Contact your reps. Fund what works.

To take action, visit https://www.birthcenters.org/call-to-action

07/24/2025

Creating Community at the AABC Birth Institute 💚

In such a highly digital world, it is crucial for our well-being to have space for face-to-face connection, hugs, and live conversation with people who make us feel at home. 🏡

Whether it's with a member you meet from across the country or with your own birth center team, the AABC Birth Institute is a beautiful opportunity to cater to your relationships and find time for bonding with like-minded folks. Join us at this year's conference to find your forever people!

07/21/2025

✨ Make a Difference Monday! ✨

Repost from ACNM:
The Midwives for MOMS Act of 2025 expands access to midwifery care by funding midwifery education programs-- especially for students from underrepresented and rural communities.

Why it matters:
More midwives= more healthy moms and babies
Midwifery care is known to lower C-section rates & improve outcomes
Access to care saves lives.

Tell Congress: We need more midwives for our communities!

Take action at https://www.birthcenters.org/call-to-action

07/18/2025

So much power in one room. We are so grateful to have come together with ACNM, NACPM, BCE, and PICBM for such crucial work to move maternal health in the US forward by uplifting midwives and birth centers in our country's healthcare system.

An enormous thank you to our panelists, our organizers, our lobbyist Debbie Jessup, and Senators Ben Ray Luján and Lisa Murkowski. None of our efforts would be possible without you all, and we are so grateful.

Here's to paving a better path forward for mothers birthing people in the United States!

07/17/2025

AABC Birth Institute 2025 🌳
Meet the Keynote: Leseliey Welch, MPH, MBA

Leseliey Welch is a public health strategist, social entrepreneur, writer and professional dreamer whose guiding value is Love. 💗
As a founder of Birth Detroit and Birth Center Equity, her work is grounded in making communities stronger, healthier and more free – starting with ensuring all people have access to all safe birth options.

Birth Detroit opened its first freestanding community birth center in 2024, and Birth Center Equity is a national effort to invest in Black, Indigenous, people of color-led birth centers at scale to make birth centers a real option in all communities. Leseliey has two decades of leadership experience in city, state and national health organizations, including having served as Deputy Director of Public Health for the City of Detroit. Leseliey earned her degree in Women’s Studies, Masters in Public Health and Masters in Business Administration from the University of Michigan, and is an Aspen Institute Ascend Fellow.

We are so delighted to have Leseliey with us this year, so let's welcome her to this year's conference!

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