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Freestanding birth centers in California
405 freestanding birth centers and midwife-run birth practices serve families in California, in and around Laguna Hills, Irvine, Redlands, El Cajon and 193 more communities. Freestanding centers operate outside hospitals, are typically midwife-led, serve low-risk pregnancies, and maintain hospital-transfer plans — whether one fits your pregnancy is a conversation for you and your provider.
Orange Coast Women's Group - Laguna Hills
4.7 ★★★★★ 388 reviews
Orange Coast Women's Medical Group
4.5 ★★★★★ 388 reviews
Inland Maternity Breastfeeding Center
5 ★★★★★ 301 reviews
Neighborhood Healthcare, El Cajon, Madison
3.7 ★★★★☆ 343 reviews
AllSafe Medical Group
4 ★★★★☆ 273 reviews
Neighborhood Healthcare Menifee
4.2 ★★★★☆ 193 reviews
AllSafe Medical Group
4.3 ★★★★☆ 183 reviews
Honey Midwifery Holistic Birth Center & Home Birth
5 ★★★★★ 134 reviews
South Coast Midwifery & Women's Health Care
4.3 ★★★★☆ 154 reviews
Pure Births
4.8 ★★★★★ 122 reviews
Intimate Journey Birth & Wellness Center
5 ★★★★★ 107 reviews
Birth Education Center
5 ★★★★★ 96 reviews
New Mom School
5 ★★★★★ 94 reviews
New Mom School
5 ★★★★★ 88 reviews
Shasta Community Health Center: Maternity
4.1 ★★★★☆ 105 reviews
Women and Infants Pavilion
3.4 ★★★☆☆ 119 reviews
Mind Body Birth Wellness and Birthing Center
4.8 ★★★★★ 84 reviews
Millie - Maternity and Gynecology
4.2 ★★★★☆ 90 reviews
Orange Coast Womens Medical Group
4.7 ★★★★★ 80 reviews
Revelation Midwifery
4.8 ★★★★★ 78 reviews
Orange Coast Women's Medical Group
4.5 ★★★★★ 75 reviews
Mommycare 마미케어 (미국 산후 조리 베이비 케어 전문)
4.9 ★★★★★ 66 reviews
The Mommy Center
5 ★★★★★ 63 reviews
New Mom School
5 ★★★★★ 56 reviews
Nature's Way Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 54 reviews
East Bay Midwives
4.9 ★★★★★ 55 reviews
MAMA CASTLE / 마마캐슬 아기 돌봄, 산모 신생아 산후관리
4.7 ★★★★★ 57 reviews
The Midwives Childbirth Services - Paula Grady, LM CPM
4.8 ★★★★★ 50 reviews
The Natural Birth Place
4.9 ★★★★★ 47 reviews
Acorn Community Birth And Wellness Center
4.5 ★★★★★ 51 reviews
SCV Birth Center
4.8 ★★★★★ 46 reviews
AllSafe Medical Group
3.9 ★★★★☆ 53 reviews
Homebody Midwifery
4.8 ★★★★★ 43 reviews
Charisma Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 40 reviews
Birth Local Midwifery Carlsbad
5 ★★★★★ 40 reviews
Next Generation Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 39 reviews
New Mom School
5 ★★★★★ 38 reviews
Cottage Obstetrics & Gynecology Clinic - Part of Cottage Medical Group
4.6 ★★★★★ 39 reviews
A Joy Birth Services, Inc.
5 ★★★★★ 35 reviews
Dr. Milagros Cabrera, Obstetrician-gynecologist
4.8 ★★★★★ 36 reviews
Dr. Douglas Rittenhouse, Obstetrician-gynecologist
4.5 ★★★★★ 38 reviews
The Midwife & More
5 ★★★★★ 33 reviews
Dara The Midwife
5 ★★★★★ 33 reviews
Birthing Rhythm, Inc
5 ★★★★★ 33 reviews
Brooke Ray, Certified Nurse Midwife
5 ★★★★★ 33 reviews
Born With An Angell Midwifery Care
4.8 ★★★★★ 34 reviews
The Birth Companions
4.8 ★★★★★ 34 reviews
East Bay Birth Collective
5 ★★★★★ 32 reviews
Kinship Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 32 reviews
Beach Obstetrics and Gynecology Medical Group
4.1 ★★★★☆ 39 reviews
The Nest & Company
4.9 ★★★★★ 32 reviews
OC Maternal Fetal Medicine
4.9 ★★★★★ 32 reviews
High Desert Birth Services
5 ★★★★★ 31 reviews
Rainbow Midwifery - Tasha Boyd, LM, CPM
5 ★★★★★ 31 reviews
The Root: Birth, Babies, Beyond
5 ★★★★★ 30 reviews
Stanford Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 30 reviews
Dos Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 29 reviews
Casa Natal Birth & Wellness Center
4.6 ★★★★★ 31 reviews
Hummingbird Midwifery
4.6 ★★★★★ 31 reviews
Bloom Waterbirth & Wellness Center
4.6 ★★★★★ 31 reviews
Beautiful One Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 28 reviews
Moonstone Midwives Birth Center
4.8 ★★★★★ 29 reviews
San Diego Midwife
4.7 ★★★★★ 29 reviews
El Camino Health - Midwives
4.5 ★★★★★ 30 reviews
Embracing Oak Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 27 reviews
Ventura Birth Center
4.7 ★★★★★ 28 reviews
Informed birth and beyond
5 ★★★★★ 26 reviews
So Zen Birth Services
5 ★★★★★ 26 reviews
Birth Your Way Birth Center
4.2 ★★★★☆ 30 reviews
Luna Birth Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 25 reviews
Birth & Baby University
5 ★★★★★ 25 reviews
Welborn Baby Childbirth Services
5 ★★★★★ 25 reviews
Bakersfield Birth Center Inc., Justine O. Backhaus, LM
4.8 ★★★★★ 25 reviews
Santa Barbara Birth Center
5 ★★★★★ 23 reviews
Abundant Blessings Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 23 reviews
Comadres Midwifery Homebirth, Women's Health & Healing Services
5 ★★★★★ 23 reviews
Midwife Brianna Joy
5 ★★★★★ 23 reviews
Sierra Natural Birth Center
4.8 ★★★★★ 23 reviews
Born Wild Midwifery
4.8 ★★★★★ 23 reviews
Pacifica Family Birth Center
4.4 ★★★★☆ 25 reviews
the mothership birth services.
5 ★★★★★ 22 reviews
Mama Nurture Birth-Katie Hamilton LM, CPM
5 ★★★★★ 22 reviews
Luna Madre Midwifery
4.8 ★★★★★ 22 reviews
Rising Tide Midwifery
4.8 ★★★★★ 22 reviews
Dr. Melissa Ko, Casa Natal Birth Center
5 ★★★★★ 21 reviews
Redding Midwifery Group
4.7 ★★★★★ 22 reviews
Maternity Center of Vermont
4.4 ★★★★☆ 23 reviews
10 Moons Midwifery
4.8 ★★★★★ 21 reviews
Sunrise Birthing Center
5 ★★★★★ 20 reviews
Believer in Birth - Michelle Nanas LM
5 ★★★★★ 20 reviews
North Bay Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 20 reviews
Ananda Mama Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 19 reviews
Labor and Delivery at Stanford Children's Health
3.3 ★★★☆☆ 28 reviews
Millie - Maternity and Gynecology
4.1 ★★★★☆ 22 reviews
Duolovedoula
5 ★★★★★ 18 reviews
San Diego County Midwives
5 ★★★★★ 18 reviews
Baker Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 18 reviews
Birth Spectrum
5 ★★★★★ 18 reviews
Mandalay Bay Children's Center
3.2 ★★★☆☆ 27 reviews
Grace Laced Birth Services
5 ★★★★★ 17 reviews
Nine Moonbeams Midwifery, Peggy Vetter, LM
5 ★★★★★ 17 reviews
San Francisco Birth Center
4.6 ★★★★★ 18 reviews
Eisenhower Family Birth Center
4.8 ★★★★★ 17 reviews
Birth Waves Midwifery
4.8 ★★★★★ 17 reviews
Inland Empire Woman Center Fontana
3 ★★★☆☆ 27 reviews
Lavender Moon Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 16 reviews
Nikole Paulos Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 16 reviews
Score Midwifery Services LLC
5 ★★★★★ 16 reviews
Marshall Birth Center
4.7 ★★★★★ 17 reviews
Wild at Heart Midwifery
4.2 ★★★★☆ 18 reviews
A Women's Health & Maternity Center
3 ★★★☆☆ 25 reviews
Gea Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 15 reviews
Fudge Family Birthing Suites
3.7 ★★★★☆ 20 reviews
Modern Roots Birth and Mothering
4.7 ★★★★★ 15 reviews
Simi Valley Birth Center
5 ★★★★★ 14 reviews
P U S H
5 ★★★★★ 14 reviews
Cypress Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 14 reviews
Ask A Midwife
5 ★★★★★ 14 reviews
UCLA Health BirthPlace Santa Monica
4.1 ★★★★☆ 17 reviews
Taproot Midwifery
4.7 ★★★★★ 14 reviews
A Family Affair Birth Center
5 ★★★★★ 13 reviews
Belly to Birth Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 13 reviews
Hatch Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 13 reviews
Quiet Earth Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 13 reviews
Peaceful Passages Birthing Support Center
4 ★★★★☆ 16 reviews
UCLA Health BirthPlace Westwood
4 ★★★★☆ 16 reviews
Moxie Birth
4.8 ★★★★★ 13 reviews
Birth Story Midwifery
4.8 ★★★★★ 13 reviews
Natural Birth Center & Women's Wellness
4 ★★★★☆ 15 reviews
Manzanita Midwifery, Jennifer Oquendo, Licensed Midwife
5 ★★★★★ 12 reviews
MINE Maternity
5 ★★★★★ 12 reviews
Mama Moonlight Birth Services
5 ★★★★★ 12 reviews
Birth Journey Services
5 ★★★★★ 12 reviews
Intuitive Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 12 reviews
Bay Postpartum Midwife
5 ★★★★★ 12 reviews
Labor of Love Birth & Postpartum
4.4 ★★★★☆ 13 reviews
Birth Matters
4.7 ★★★★★ 12 reviews
Adventist Health and Rideout Family Birthing Center
4.7 ★★★★★ 12 reviews
Mama Baby Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 11 reviews
Community Birth Works, Cynthia Banks, RN, MSN, CNM
5 ★★★★★ 10 reviews
Wholistic Birth and Wellness
5 ★★★★★ 10 reviews
Mary Newberry Davis, CNM, MSN
4.8 ★★★★★ 10 reviews
Intuitive Rhythms Midwifery
4.8 ★★★★★ 10 reviews
Grow Midwifery and Birth Center
4.6 ★★★★★ 10 reviews
AA Midwifery Center
5 ★★★★★ 9 reviews
Family Centered Birth
5 ★★★★★ 9 reviews
Experience Birth & Beyond
5 ★★★★★ 9 reviews
MarinHealth Lactation Services
5 ★★★★★ 9 reviews
Blossom Birth & Family
5 ★★★★★ 9 reviews
Fabulous Birth
5 ★★★★★ 9 reviews
Transformative Birth Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 9 reviews
Ray Weber - Long Beach Midwife LM, CPM, MS
5 ★★★★★ 9 reviews
My Little Light Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 9 reviews
Beach Cities Midwifery
4 ★★★★☆ 11 reviews
TrueCare Mission Mesa Women's Health
2.4 ★★☆☆☆ 18 reviews
South Bay Birth
4.2 ★★★★☆ 10 reviews
Casa Natal Birth & Wellness Center
4.2 ★★★★☆ 10 reviews
CPMC Birth Center, Van Ness Campus
4.6 ★★★★★ 9 reviews
Sonoma Valley Birth Center
5 ★★★★★ 8 reviews
Blessed Beginnings Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 8 reviews
Mercy Oceans Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 8 reviews
Moto Midwife Birth and Lactation Services
5 ★★★★★ 8 reviews
Redwood Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 8 reviews
Los Angeles Midwives, a professional nursing corporation
5 ★★★★★ 8 reviews
Providence Medical Group Santa Rosa - Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Services
3.5 ★★★★☆ 11 reviews
Modesto Natural Birth Place
4.2 ★★★★☆ 9 reviews
Mills-Peninsula Family Birth Center
4.5 ★★★★★ 8 reviews
Placenta Encapsulation San Diego &Chula Vista
5 ★★★★★ 7 reviews
Alpine Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 7 reviews
Fruitful Birth Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 7 reviews
La Rosa Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 7 reviews
Clinique Molière
5 ★★★★★ 7 reviews
Moonrise Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 7 reviews
Gold Soul Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 7 reviews
Kelly Olmstead, LM, CPM currently on sabbatical
4.9 ★★★★★ 7 reviews
Birth Chemistry - Community & Online Birth Classes
4.6 ★★★★★ 7 reviews
San Jose/Los Gatos Obstetrics and Gynecology
1.5 ★★☆☆☆ 21 reviews
Oscar De La Hoya Birthing Center
3.4 ★★★☆☆ 9 reviews
Tree of Life: Celebrations and Support
5 ★★★★★ 6 reviews
Legacy Birth and Wellness Midwifery Services
5 ★★★★★ 6 reviews
Obaatan Midwifery & Postpartum
5 ★★★★★ 6 reviews
Sacred Journey Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 6 reviews
Anu Midwifery Care
5 ★★★★★ 6 reviews
Midwife Courtney
5 ★★★★★ 6 reviews
Citrus Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 6 reviews
UC Davis Health Prenatal Diagnosis Center Stockton
2.7 ★★★☆☆ 11 reviews
Obstetrics & Gynecology (OB/GYN): Sunnyvale Center: Palo Alto Medical Foundation
1.7 ★★☆☆☆ 17 reviews
Stork & Sprout
3.9 ★★★★☆ 7 reviews
Alta Bates Campus Birth Center
4.3 ★★★★☆ 6 reviews
Providence Center for Maternal and Infant Care
5 ★★★★★ 5 reviews
Auburn Home Birth - American River Midwifery (Deborah Bartle LM, CPM)
5 ★★★★★ 5 reviews
Mother's Journey - Kymm Ann Wallin
5 ★★★★★ 5 reviews
ForeMilk Lactation
5 ★★★★★ 5 reviews
Circle City Midwifery & Women's Health Services, Inc.
3.8 ★★★★☆ 6 reviews
Full Moon Birth and Family Wellness Center
4.4 ★★★★☆ 5 reviews
Community Memorial New Parent Resource Center
4.2 ★★★★☆ 5 reviews
Obstetrics/Gynecology (OB/GYN): Sutter Medical Plaza: Sutter Medical Foundation
1.7 ★★☆☆☆ 12 reviews
Aquarius Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 4 reviews
Orange County Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 4 reviews
South Bay Homebirth Collective
5 ★★★★★ 4 reviews
Wildflower Birth and Wellness
5 ★★★★★ 4 reviews
Mothercraft Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 4 reviews
Sarah Tunney Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 4 reviews
Birthing Come True
5 ★★★★★ 4 reviews
Birthstone Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 4 reviews
Lamb of God Maternity Home
4 ★★★★☆ 4 reviews
NorthBay ABC Prenatal Program
4 ★★★★☆ 4 reviews
Big Valley Midwives
5 ★★★★★ 3 reviews
Mountain River Birth: Morgan Conway-O’Neill, LM, CPM
5 ★★★★★ 3 reviews
Primary Care & Women's Health - Dignity Health Medical Group - Oxnard, CA
5 ★★★★★ 3 reviews
Linda Lee, CNM
5 ★★★★★ 3 reviews
Island Midwife - Evaly Long, CPM, LM
5 ★★★★★ 3 reviews
Hazel Hawkins Birthing Center
5 ★★★★★ 3 reviews
Riverside Medical Clinic - Women's Center
1.7 ★★☆☆☆ 6 reviews
Providence Saint Joseph Labor and Delivery Unit - Burbank
5 ★★★★★ 2 reviews
Birth Into Being
5 ★★★★★ 2 reviews
Spa Phoenix
5 ★★★★★ 2 reviews
Gilbert & Patricia Martin Family Birth & Newborn Center
5 ★★★★★ 2 reviews
Bay Area Birth Support
5 ★★★★★ 2 reviews
Sacramento Valley Midwifery Care
5 ★★★★★ 2 reviews
Willow Birth Village
5 ★★★★★ 2 reviews
Lactation Center: Sutter Maternity Surgery Center
5 ★★★★★ 2 reviews
Ohana Midwifery at Lake Tahoe
5 ★★★★★ 2 reviews
A Celebration of Birth And Life
5 ★★★★★ 2 reviews
PMT/Pavilion Building Maternity & Outpatient Surgery Center
5 ★★★★★ 2 reviews
Inland Empire Midwifery & Lactation
2 ★★☆☆☆ 4 reviews
Providence Saint John's Health Center Maternity Services
4 ★★★★☆ 2 reviews
Birth & Womens Center
2.3 ★★☆☆☆ 3 reviews
Maternity/Delivery
3 ★★★☆☆ 2 reviews
Childbirth at Home
3 ★★★☆☆ 2 reviews
Indigo Birth - Placenta Encapsulation
3 ★★★☆☆ 2 reviews
Family First Maternity Center
5 ★★★★★ 1 reviews
Home Birth Midwife, Davi Kaur Khalsa CNM, WHNP, MSN
5 ★★★★★ 1 reviews
Sam Barrientos Birth Place
5 ★★★★★ 1 reviews
Birth With Treesa
5 ★★★★★ 1 reviews
Nantzin Birth Medicine Midwifery Services
5 ★★★★★ 1 reviews
New Mom School
5 ★★★★★ 1 reviews
Family Birth And Education Center
5 ★★★★★ 1 reviews
The Barefoot Midwife
5 ★★★★★ 1 reviews
La Rosa Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 1 reviews
South Bay Placenta Medicine
5 ★★★★★ 1 reviews
Birthwell Los Angeles
5 ★★★★★ 1 reviews
Heather LeMaster, LM, CPM
5 ★★★★★ 1 reviews
Jessica A. Johnson, LM
5 ★★★★★ 1 reviews
Birth Aesthetics Midwifery
5 ★★★★★ 1 reviews
Oakland Better Birth Foundation
1 ★☆☆☆☆ 1 reviews
Primary Care & Women's Health - Dignity Health Medical Group - Camarillo, CA
1 ★☆☆☆☆ 1 reviews
Radiant Transitions Birth Services
1 ★☆☆☆☆ 1 reviews
Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley - Maternity
1 ★☆☆☆☆ 1 reviews
Stanford Medicine Partners Obstetrics & Gynecology Livermore
1 ★☆☆☆☆ 1 reviews
BioMama Birth and Mamacare
Barefootdoula3
Le Gra Birth Services
A New Moon Rising Placenta Encapsulation
Nova Midwifery Services
Birthland
Awakenings Birth Services
Providence Saint Joseph Maternity Care - Burbank
Birthing Services
Pure Birth - Santa Maria
Roberta L. Frank, CNM
Green Birth
Family Centered Birth
Homebody Midwifery
Chico Homebirth Midwifery
the los angeles birthing co.
Labour Of Love Birth Services
Medical Hypnosis - Mind Body Medicine - Preventive Medicine - Immunotherapy
Blackbird Birthing: Midwifery & Lactation Services
Monarch Birth Services
Sista Girl Midwifery
Patient Pavilion
Health Beginnings Midwifery
Gentle Womb Birth
Natural & Easy Birth
SF Bay Birth
Fruits of my Labor Birth Services
Birthing Adventures Midwifery
Fresno Birth Midwifery
Belly to Birth
Joyful Outcome
Placenta Encapsulation Temecula & Murrieta
The Slack Shack
Nurture Santa Barbara
Peaceful Passages Birthing Support Center of Southern California
Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center of Santa Cruz Birth Center
Birth Elements
Birth With Hope Midwifery
Tammy Stokes Licensed Midwife
Aqua Natal Birth and Midwife
Comprehensive Perinatal Services
San Diego Babies
Whole Birth Resources
Rooted Magic Birth
Kindred Space AV
Gentle Birth Midwifery
마미케어 (Mommycare)
Mama Kawsay Birthing and Wellness
Alpine Midwifery
Heart Work Birth Services
Santa Barbara Boutique Midwifery
A Celebration of Birth and Life
Wise Women Medicine
East Bay Home Birth Midwifery
Providence Holy Cross Obstetrics
Jee-in Birth Services
Generations Midwifery Service
Haumea Birth and Family Wellness
Choosing a birth center in California
Start with a tour — nearly every center offers one, and it tells you more in an hour than any website. Ask which hospital they transfer to and how far it is, who attends births and what credentials they hold (CNM and CPM are the ones you'll hear most), what their eligibility criteria are, and whether they're CABC-accredited — the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers is the gold standard for freestanding centers, and it's a fair question to ask any of them. On money: ask what the fee covers and confirm your insurance or Medicaid coverage directly with the center and your plan before you commit.
If the nearest center looks far, check anyway — birth-center clients often drive further than you'd expect for prenatal visits, and some midwife practices listed here serve families across a wide region. Distance to the center, and from the center to its transfer hospital, are both worth mapping before you decide.
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