Seattle Birth Centers and Midwife Groups

Hoping to birth out of hospital in the Seattle area? Not sure where to start looking or not sure where everyone is located? Here’s a quick list of the freestanding birth centers in our area that are NOT associated with a hospital. Each birth center also has a “home team” of midwives that attend births at their birth center or your home. There are also independent midwives in our area that have privileges to deliver at some of the birth centers, however mainly focus on home births. Below you’ll find lists for both.

I hope this helps you find the perfect team for your birth!

Seattle Birth Centers & their Locations

Puget Sound Birth Center - Kirkland, WA

Sprout Birth Center - Mountlake Terrance, WA

Eastside Birth Center - Bellevue, WA

Rainier Valley Birth & Health Center - Renton, WA

Center for Birth - Seattle, WA

*Midwives at each birth center also attend home births.

More Midwives, Where they are located & Where they deliver

Northshore Midwives - Woodinville, WA (Home or Puget Sound Birth Center)

Snohomish Midwives - Snohomish, WA (Home or Puget Sound Birth Center)

Origins Natural Health and Midwifery - Snohomish, WA (Home birth only)

Exhale Birth Services - Duvall, WA (Home birth only)

In Tandem Midwifery - Burien, WA (Home or Center for Birth)

Village Midwifery Care - Burien, WA (Home or birth center)

Journey Midwifery Services - Seattle, WA (Home or birth center)

Rainy City Midwifery - Seattle, WA (Home or Center for Birth)

Seattle Home Maternity - Seattle, WA (Home or Center for Birth. They also have another birth suite at their office.)

Full Moon Midwifery - Seattle, WA (Home or birth center)

Something Beautiful Midwifery - Auburn, WA (Home or Center for Birth)


See an error or would like to be added? Please email me.


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Documentary Photo Session Ideas

With the documentary approach, it’s all about documenting your family’s real life, the little things that make up your day or week that may go by unnoticed or normally undocumented. But you still might be wondering, “What does that actually mean? What should we plan for and what will you photograph?” Below are just a few ideas of moments/events/things that could be part of your sessions.

While we never need to have a schedule for our time together, I hope this list helps you consider the possibilities of things that could be documented during your session! There’s really no limits to what I can capture for you. I become your family’s historian for the day and hopefully future as well.

Maternity/Before Baby:

  • Shopping for baby 

  • Decorating/setting up baby’s nursery

  • Baby shower

  • Daily walk

  • Cooking with family

  • Hanging out with older kids at home or at the park

  • Your normal Saturday routine

  • Early prepping of food for your family postpartum

  • Check up with your midwife (out of hospital)

  • Building any new baby furniture (crib, rocker, changing table)


Newborn/Babies:

  • First bath at home/general bath time

  • Skin to skin time

  • Tummy time

  • Trying first solids

  • Nursing

  • Pumping

  • Meeting/Snuggling with siblings

  • Meeting/Snuggling with grandparents

  • Walks around the neighborhood

  • Story time at the library

  • Snuggles with mom and dad

  • Napping with mom and dad

  • Playing with extended family (aunts/uncles)

  • Morning/Bedtime routine

  • First Birthday


Family:

  • Breakfast

  • Waking up

  • Morning routine

  • Lunch

  • Dinner time

  • Bath time 

  • Brushing teeth 

  • Bedtime books

  • Family game time 

  • Playing together in the yard/outside 

  • Trip to a playground

  • Trip to a museum

  • Trip to the farmers market

  • Trip to the library

  • Trip to the grocery store

  • Trip to the aquarium 

  • Practicing musical instruments

  • Playing sports outside together

  • Making cookies/treats in the kitchen

  • Cooking a meal together

  • Grandparents visiting

  • Playing with the family pet/walking the dog

  • First day with new family pet

  • Yard work/raking leaves/planting trees

  • Gardening 

  • Blowing bubbles outside

  • Building legos together

  • Building a fort together

  • Salmon watching

  • Mushroom hunting

  • Exploring the beaches and natural wonders of the puget sound

  • Holiday family traditions

  • Birthday/Family milestone

  • Making crafts together

  • Moving into a new home

  • Backyard camping

  • Backyard fire and s’mores

  • Backyard movie time

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5 Reasons to Document Baby's First Year!

You may be thinking, do I actually need a reason to document their first year? I mean come on! Look at those tiny toes! Well here are a few reasons you may not have thought about and why the documentary approach might be the right fit for you.

  1. They change so fast. No seriously they do. If this is your first baby, ask anyone who has older children. That first year, one day you wake up and realize they’ve grown and changed seemingly overnight. You can’t go back in time. By the end of their first year they will be a drastically different small human.

  2. You won’t be in the photos you take everyday on your phone. Read that again. Yes, I know you’re taking a million photos of your baby on your phone, what parent doesn’t?? But beyond the occasional selfie, are you in those photos? Will your baby be able to see you and how much you loved them, held them, cuddled them, and perhaps even superhuman multitasked with them, when they are grown and looking back at photos? Documentary photography allows you to get in the frame.

  3. You’ll be busy. We all live busy lives, throw in a newborn and it goes up a huge notch. Planned documentary sessions throughout the year allow me to pop in, document, and let you keep on doing your own thing. There’s no outfits to coordinate, location to drive to, or stress of if baby will be in a good mood that day. You get to release all that for the entire year and just be a present parent.

  4. The Baby Book dilemma. How many of us buy/bought a baby book for baby’s first year and never finished it? [Raising my own hand.] Think of this as a made-for-you baby book. Highlights from your sessions will all be printed in a book for you at the end of the year. Meaning no homework for you! If you are a journaler, upon request, I can even leave room for you to write notes in your book for each session, milestones that have happened, or things you’d like to remember about that time.

  5. Your child will thank you later. Yup. Some day when they are older they will look through the photos taken and get to see YOU and THEM during that first year of their life. If you are like me, those photos of our parents and our family only grow more valuable over time. Not only will you be enjoying the photos as your baby grows into a child, a teen, and then an adult, but they will someday be thanking you for the photos that allow them to see a time they do not remember.

Whether you chose to only document those newborn days or opt for a larger First Year Package that includes multiple sessions throughout the year, you won’t regret having the time documented to relive later down the road.

Ready to document your baby’s first year?
I offer not only a First Year Milestones Bundle but can also customize any Year in the Life package to a First Year in the Life package.