Birth Center at PCC

07/29/2023

Attention Birth Center families: Please join us for an event at the Birth Center at PCC this Saturday to celebrate 9 years! The event is from 2-4 pm. We look forward to seeing all the families we’ve helped build throughout the years!

06/05/2023

The Birth Center at PCC is temporarily closed. Waterbirth, doula care, and a hospital birth center option are available for patients seeking birth center care with our midwives. The Family Birth Place at West Suburban Medical Center is available for Midwifery patients at PCC.

For more information about this option, waterbirth, or doula care through PCC, please contact Mary Sommers, Director of Maternal Child Programs & Birth Center at (708) 386-0845 or msommers@pccwellness.org.

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02/01/2023

PCC is proud to offer midwifery services at two locations. Our patients can deliver in The Birth Center at PCC, our freestanding birth center located at 6201 South Roosevelt in Berwyn, or at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park. Both options include waterbirth and low intervention care. Our patients who deliver at West Suburban also can use nitrous oxide as well as medication options for pain relief. All midwives see patients at our PCC health centers. Please call 708-386-0845 if you would like to schedule an appointment.

03/08/2022

Happy International Women’s Day!

Today is one of the most important days of the year to celebrate women’s achievements and raise awareness about women’s equality. It is also a call to action to accelerate gender parity.

Take some time today to celebrate all the women in your life! 💗

03/07/2022

Check out this feature about PCC's midwifery services on Chicago Parent! We are proud of the work our midwives do. ❤️

Equitable birth services in partnership with a midwife can provide an empowering, uplifting, even life-changing experience.

01/26/2022

January is National Birth Defects Awareness Month. Birth defects can happen for many reasons. Although not all birth defects can be prevented, people can increase their chances of having a healthy baby by managing health conditions and adopting healthy behaviors before becoming pregnant. http://go.usa.gov/xeXAV

10/14/2021

Learn about PCC's birthing options! If you choose a midwife for your pregnancy care, you can give birth at the Birth Center at PCC or at the Alternative Birthing Center at West Suburban Medical Center.

Our Certified Nurse Midwives are experts in pregnancy and birth. They offer prenatal care at PCC health centers and provide care during labor.

For more information about PCC's birth options, please visit:
https://bit.ly/3kWg5HS

10/07/2021

Did you know that PCC has midwives that deliver at the Alternative Birthing Center at West Suburban Medical Center? This center offers parents a variety of choices to manage their delivery, naturally, including water for labor and birth. You will be surrounded in a home-like setting with a queen-size bed for family bonding, along with many amenities.

For more information about PCC's midwifery services, please call 708-317-3035. For more information about he Alternative Birthing Center and to schedule a tour, please visit: https://bit.ly/3CZJIxU

08/09/2021

It's been a while since we posted, but we'd like to wish all the breastfeeding mamas a happy breastfeeding month! You're doing a great job!

05/05/2021

This spring marks the sixteenth anniversary of the nurse-midwifery service at PCC! Certified Nurse Midwives (CNMs) first began working at PCC Community Wellness Center in the spring of 2005. Initially, there were just two PCC CNMs providing prenatal care at just one PCC health center and attending labors at West Suburban Medical Center.

In 2014, we were proud to open Birth Center at PCC and be able to offer to continuous labor support and birth in an out of hospital setting to those with normal, low risk pregnancies.

Over the years, our midwife group has grown by leaps and bounds! We now have 11 nurse-midwives who provide prenatal care, postpartum, and well-body care at six of our health centers, attend labors and births at the Birth Center at PCC and at West Suburban Medical Center, and on average catch 30-35 babies every month.

We are honored to have cared for so many pregnant people and babies in these last sixteen years, and we can't wait to see what the next sixteen years will bring!

Happy Sweet Sixteen to the midwife group at PCC, and happy International Day of the Midwife to all our midwife colleagues around the world!