Birth Services

Our midwives know just how to lay the foundation for a fulfilling birth with your needs and hopes at the center.

At the Burr Ridge Birth Center, you birth on your own terms. Body-led pushing. Squat on a birthing stool. Lean back in the tub, or the queen-sized bed. Bend over in the shower to catch your baby. You follow your body and we’re there to support and encourage!

Laboring with us can look like:

Eating and drinking whenever you like, moving all around the suite as easily as you need, intermittent monitoring with a hand-held doppler, LOTS of hands-on support, and cervical exams only when you consent to them!

  • Continuous presence from the midwives, greeting you as you arrive in labor and guiding you through to baby’s first feed. Our Birth Assistants join the team when you’re close to meeting your baby to assist the midwife and then nurture you throughout the initial postpartum period.

  • Doulas are welcome and encouraged!

Encouraging words, steady hands and all of the comfort tools to use

  • accupressure

  • visualization

  • abdominal breathing

  • touch and massage

  • movement

  • muscle relaxation

  • music

  • water immersion

  • TENS unit

  • nitrous oxide

  • heat packs

  • positions

  • using your voice

  • birth ball & peanut ball

  • birthing stool

  • dancing

  • Swedish ladder

  • rebozos

  • birth swing

  • sterile water injections

  • shower

  • …and any combination of these!

We protect the sacredness of the inital postpartum time.

For the first 4-6 hours, we focus on as much uninterrupted bonding time as possible and do not separate baby, especially while doing skin-to-skin time, unless it’s emergent. There is no rushed period for baby to latch, allowing them to set the pace for laid-back breast/chestfeeding. Families are able to rest, eat and nap together. The first newborn exam done by the midwife is within arms’ reach of you. And then, if you’re feeling open, you can indulge in a soothing and healing postpartum herbal bath before going home. Most birthing parents are stable enough to check out about 4-6 hours after their birth—another birth center difference!