07/20/2025
THANK YOU to everyone who has so generously donated so far. I have deep appreciation and gratitude for you all.
Here is a personal note and some context/background, as we continue to work toward our goal.
As our beautiful city expands in all directions, so must we. As rising costs continue to mount, insurance reimbursements do not meet them and we are chronically underpaid and undervalued within the medical industrial complex.
Since it’s own birth in 2010, Center for Birth has been a scrappy, intrepid and softly persevering labor of love. Thank you to Tina and Nat and theirs for creating this and holding it down for well over a decade. I became the owner in 2023 after having done the bulk of my midwifery training here as a student and working here as a staff midwife with Rainy City since 2016.
Here’s what I know: Center for Birth is an embodied and incarnate commitment rooted in a belief in birthing bodies and the zeitgeist of midwifery licensure, scope, expansion and access. We love this birth center and we know we aren’t the only ones…whether you took childbirth classes here, attended clients, birthed in one of our beautiful tubs, transferred after planning to welcome your new one in this space, labored on the patio or took a walk around SLU in early labor, attended prenatal and postpartum visits, had your baby’s pediatric wellness checks, saw a lactation consultant, received acupuncture in the clinic or simply toured to get a feel for what out of hospital birth could look like.
Our ultimate goal is to organize a formal fundraising event in the future with the help of tireless and creative think-tank friends and clients, complete with auctions and raffles and a joyous gathering to manifest and uphold our hopes and dreams for this work and community resource.
But for now, if you have the flexibility, resourcing or ease in your life to donate any amount that you feel called to it would mean the world to us as we work to hang in there. If you do not or cannot, we feel you and humbly ask that you please consider sharing our fundraiser with your networks, friends, webs and communities. Thank you! Much love and be easy :)
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