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Celebrate and elevate the potential of birth centers, emphasizing community-based, midwifery-led care. Community birth centers are located in Black, Indigenous, communities of color and provide safe, culturally-reverent, midwifery-led maternal health care for all.
Birth Center Week 2026 is coming up September 14-20 with the powerful theme "Birth Love, Birth Power"! This year Birth Center Week will continue the launch of Beloved Birth 50 By 50. 50 by 50 is a collective pledge by 2050 half of the babies born in the United States, will be born into the hands of Midwives.
Each year, Birth Center Week offers a powerful opportunity for all of us to celebrate and elevate the impact and potential of birth centers, with a focus on community birth centers that provide safe, culturally-reverent, midwifery-led health care for all.
Join us in learning more about what the Urban Perinatal Education Center is doing around community care.
What Is a Birth Center?
What Is a Birth Center?
A birth center is a home-like place where midwives provide prenatal, birth, and postpartum care. (Birth Center Week)
Birth centers are freestanding and not in hospitals. Community birth centers provide safe, culturally-reverent, midwifery-led healthcare for all. (1)
Why a Birth Center?
Why a Birth Center?
“Birth Centers Are Public Health” is informed by Birth Center Equity (BCE) narrative strategy research and the “Midwifery is Public Health (MIPH)” titled conference hosted by Alicia D. Bonaparte, Keisha Goode and Monica McElmore in spring 2023. (Birth Center Equity)
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