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We’re 10 years old!
Established 2004 With overwhelming community support and the indispensable help of family and friends, Christine Gibbs and Catriona Munro established Bellingham Birth Center in early 2004 to answer the...
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No Unnecessary Interventions
In some hospitals, routine interventions such as depriving the mother of food and drink during labor, mandatory IVs, frequent inductions, and continuous fetal monitoring with the mother laying in bed,...
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Water Birth
What sounds better than slipping into a warm bath during labor and letting your body float, relax, and open? How wonderful, too, that this act of soaking in a warm bath actually helps labor progress...
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Shocking News: Study Looks at 3/4 of a Million Home Births and Finds it is...
A sweet homebirth from earlier this year attended by Eloisa Cary, LM and Catriona Munro, LM A recently published article on the safety of planned home birth seemed newsworthy to me and inspired me to...
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Join Us For Our 1000th Baby and 10-Year Anniversary Party on October 5th
10 years and 1000+ babies after Ina May Gaskin cut our “umbicial cord” at Bellingham Birth Center’s Grand Opening in 2004, our center is happily humming along. We have a great crew of midwives,...
View ArticleBritain’s NHS Urges 45% of Women to Avoid Hospital Births and Give Birth at...
The UK’s National Health Service just released a refreshing statement about maternity care. And I quote: “Guidance from National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) says that midwife-led...
View ArticleIna May Gaskin Podcast
This podcast is an excellent way to spend 25 minutes, especially if you can relate to having to adapt your “birth plan” due to a complicated birth. It is a conversation between Ina May Gaskin and a...
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Welcome to Rebecca Bartsch, MSM, LM, IBCLC
We are very pleased to welcome Rebecca Bartsch, MSM, LM, IBCLC to the group of licensed midwives privileged at Bellingham Birth Center, bringing our total number of midwifery practices up to 7!...
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