Columbia Birth Center-Richland

12/15/2025

If you made a gingerbread house, which one would it look like?

12/11/2025

Urgent request for breastmilk!

If anyone has extra breastmilk in the freezer, we have a family that would greatly appreciate a donation. Please send us a message if you have any that you'd like to share!

Thank you!

12/11/2025

Sandy has recently joined the Columbia Birth Center team as one of our staff midwives. She brings over 20 years of experience, compassion, and wisdom. She has recently moved to Washington from sunny Tucson, Arizona where she practiced previously. She is excited to be working in a freestanding birth center again and we are so excited to have her joining our team! We know she'll receive a warm welcome from everyone and we hope that she can get reacclimated to our chilly winter weather. 😉🥰

You can learn more about Sandy here:
https://www.columbiabirthcenter.com/sandy-m

12/09/2025

We provide each of our CBC families with a postpartum bag that includes a jar of Postpartum Sitz Bath herbs. We also sell extra jars in the display case by our front desk if you find yourself needing more! We use organic herbs that can be steeped and made into a "tea" to add to a peri bottle or sitz bath for soothing postpartum care.

Ingredients:
🌿 Rosemary (antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, helps prevent infection, reduces swelling)
🌿 Lavender (antiseptic, analgesic, helps prevent infection, reduces pain, accelerates healing, soothing)
🌿 Calendula (antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, helps prevent infection/swelling, soothing, promotes wound healing, accelerates healing)
🌿 Uva Ursi (astringent, promotes healing, helps prevent infection, restores tone to tissues)
🌿 Yarrow (astringent, promotes healing, helps prevent infection, restores tone to tissues, helpful for hemorrhoids/bleeding, accelerates healing)
🌿 Witch Hazel (astringent, promotes healing, helps prevent infection, restores tone to tissues, helps resolve hemorrhoids/varicosities, accelerates healing)
🌿 Chamomile (anti-inflammatory, helps relieve swelling, soothing for tissues)

If you want to learn more about the benefits of these herbs during your postpartum (or prenatal) care, visit Aviva Romm's website: https://avivaromm.com/postpartum-herb-baths/
She is a midwife, clinical herbalist, and physician with extensive experience using herbs for women's health.

As always, ask your midwife before using any new herbs or supplements. Herbs are strong medicine too! 🌿 ❤

12/08/2025

Pain in labor is:
〰 Purposeful (your body is birthing your baby)
〰 Anticipated (expectation that labor is hard work, contractions get closer/stronger)
〰 Intermittent (there are breaks between contractions)
〰 Normal (not a pathological pain that means something is wrong)

12/07/2025

We never like to say "good-bye" at the final postpartum visit. We'd rather say "see you later!" 😂😉

12/06/2025

We want to wish Aliah a very happy birthday and congratulate her on her acceptance into midwifery school! 🎂 🎉🙌

Aliah has had a very special week with a birthday, babies arriving, and official word that she is starting school in 2026! We are thrilled to watch her grow as a student and we can't wait to be a part of her journey to becoming a midwife!

11/27/2025

11/22/2025

This beautiful baby girl arrived in such a hurry that there are no birth photos! Baby Josephine arrived 2 minutes after her parents got to the birth center with big brother still in his pajamas. It was so wonderful to watch her big brother admire her, her dad weighing her (7 pounds, 13 ounces!) during the newborn exam, and her mom snuggling her skin-to-skin during that golden hour. Congratulations to this awesome family! 😍💗

11/21/2025

Cora has recently joined the Columbia Birth Center team as our Front Desk Coordinator. She comes to us with a background in clinic management and patient care coordination. She graduated from WSU in 2022. We are so excited to have Cora joining our team!

You can learn more about Cora here:
https://www.columbiabirthcenter.com/cora-r

11/20/2025

We have the kindest families at CBC! This sweet gift was shared with the team and included custom 3-D printed keychains, beautiful headbands, and uterus cookies! 😍🤩

Thank you to this awesome family and all of our families for allowing us to play a small part growing your family. We have the best job and appreciate knowing that families feel the care and compassion we strive to share.

11/20/2025

This Columbia Birth Center logo was drawn by one of Midwife Meg's sons, Noah. We think he's pretty talented! 😉