MidValley Birthing Services

12/22/2025

Office Christmas party at Amy G's ❤️

12/18/2025

With labor and delivery unavailable in Lebanon through April, we are here and can provide prenatal care in Lebanon regardless of planned birth location.

For birth services, we offer home birth in Lebanon and have our birth center in Corvallis. There is also still a birth center open in Lebanon, Growing Family Birth Center.

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𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐎𝐁-𝐆𝐘𝐍 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬

The safety of parents and babies has always been—and will always be—our priority. Due to unexpected physician departures, a regional OB-GYN shortage, and the need for continuous inpatient physician coverage to safely support deliveries, we will 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲 pause labor and delivery services at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital beginning 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟓, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔. Outpatient OB-GYN care will continue at the Lebanon Health Center on Fifth Street on a limited basis.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞.

We remain fully committed to restoring services as quickly and safely as possible and are actively recruiting clinicians.

During this temporary pause, we have plans in place to support patients and families. Learn more: https://samhealth.org/news/open-letter-to-our-community/.

Thank you for your support as we work through this together.

Learn more at https://samhealth.org/news/temporary-pause-for-lebanon-labor-and-delivery-services/.

12/16/2025

Welcome baby Goldianne!

She is welcomed by Kaydee and Brian, and lots and lots of older siblings! She was born at their home in Scio on November 16th.

This is the sixth birth we've attended for Kaydee, and we were so happy to be asked to be her midwives again.

She weighed in at 7lb, 2oz.

Birth attended by Liz, Bailey. and Heidi.

(Shared with permission)er

12/15/2025

If anyone is available to come up to Portland tomorrow, Liz could use an emotional support baby for standup.

12/10/2025

Due this winter and considering Home or Birth Center birth? It's not too late.

We still have space for January and February clients!

Give us a call at 541-816-3008 to schedule your free consultation.

12/03/2025

This piece from two years ago never gets old.

"Not safe for work," except at our work.

Ever wondered why childbirth is so expensive? It’s because like everything in America, healthcare is a business and hospitals look at the uterus like it's an...

12/02/2025

Let’s talk about emergencies at home births for a minute. One question we answer frequently is, “What if there’s an emergency?”

The practical answer is, that’s why you have a midwife come to your birth. Midwives are trained to handle things like shoulder dystocia, hemorrhage, cord prolapse, neonatal resuscitation, etc.

We bring IV supplies, medications to treat bleeding, oxygen for mom or baby.

One big difference between community midwives and emergencies in the hospital setting is the tone during an emergency. I can’t tell you how many parents have told me that their hospital providers were “freaking out” during their shoulder dystocia, that the OB yelled at them afterwards for having had a big baby, that people were panicking. We understand feeling stressed, we do, but it doesn’t make anyone safer if providers aren’t managing their stress.

We value handling things calmly. Talking to parents and explaining what’s happening and what we’re doing to fix it. During a shoulder dystocia, clients work with us to change positions and we get the baby out together. After a hemorrhage, we let moms know how much bleeding happened and plan out labs and iron supplementation.

We communicate with clients during and after an emergency situation. Communication improves safety, and in the midwifery model of care, the client is the most important part of the birth team. Our care is about us working with you to keep you and baby safe, not just us doing things to you.

Questions about emergencies? Feel free to message us and ask, or give us a call to chat about what home birth could look like for you.

(Photo from a workshop we attended, wish we could remember the speaker)

12/01/2025

Here's something to do with your baby this winter!

📣Winter Registration is now open!📣 Scan the QR Code or copy the link below to register for Live & Learn classes and some great free parenting classes and workshops from the Parenting Success Network ! Winter term begins January 5th! https://www.linnbenton.edu/community/family-resources/parenting-programs.php

11/30/2025

Welcome baby Ember!

She is the third baby for Hannah annd Jeremiah and was born at their home in Springfield on October 24th.

She weighed in at 8lb, 7oz.

This was the second birth we've done for Hannah and her family, and we were so happy to get to see her and be her midwives again!

Birth attended by Hannah, Bailey. and Becca.

(Shared with permission)

11/27/2025

It's so true.

11/27/2025

We are so grateful for all of the families that we get to work with. Thank you for choosing us for your care.

To make this post special for our staff, we thought we would ask how someone from our group has blessed you? Who are you thankful for from your birth team?

11/24/2025

Lebanon/Sweet Home families, even though we moved our main office from Albany to Corvallis, we still have two small offices in Lebanon for prenatal and postpartum visits, and offer home visits for people who need it.

After we bought the Birth Center, Liz and Maggie both had built offices in their homes to see Linn county clients.

We provide home births for clients here, or we have also had many clients to do their prenatal care here and give birth with us at our Birth Center in Corvallis.