Our experienced team provides compassionate, informed, family-centered prenatal, birth and postpartum care in our facility or your home.
The Corpus Christi Birth Center is the only fully licensed free standing birth center for the greater Corpus Christi area. We have over 25 combined years of midwifery experience. If you are interested in using our birth center, we would love to talk to you more and give you a free tour of the center. Just give us a call at 361.883.BABY. (361.883.2229) ext 1
We would love nothing more than to pamper you in our bed and breakfast like atmosphere. You will always feel right at home as our guest. Schedule a free consultation to discuss all of your birthing options with us. We offer water birth in our beautiful water birth room and follow the safest of water birth standards. At CCBC you have many safe and effective birthing options. Our midwives offer quality care for low risk women during normal pregnancy and birth. We provide complete professional prenatal care in a warm and safe environment for labor and delivery. We are family friendly and professionally equipped. Thank you for visiting us on Facebook. We hope that you will continue to follow us on Facebook and don't forget to visit our website and call us today to schedule your free consultation.
02/11/2026
Introducing...
✨Raven, CD✨
She is one of our lovely birth and postpartum doulas who is here to serve the community! Whether you are having a hospital birth, homebirth, or birth center birth, she is here to help you or a momma you know!
She is also here to support and give love to any new moms and newborns during their postpartum period!
Give us a call to discuss packages and pricing!
361-883-2229
02/11/2026
💕 Every heartbeat matters. ❤️
February 7–14 is Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) Awareness Week. CHDs are the most common type of birth defect, affecting nearly 1 in 100 births. One of the most important tools we use in out-of-hospital birth to ensure safety is the Newborn Pulse Oximetry Screening.
What is it? 🩺
It’s a painless, non-invasive test we perform 24 hours after birth. We place a small sensor on your baby’s hand and foot to measure how much oxygen is in their blood.
Why does it matter? 📈
This simple "pulse ox" test helps us detect critical heart issues that might not be visible to the naked eye. It’s a small step that ensures your baby gets the right care immediately.
At CCBC, your baby’s heart health is our priority from the very first heartbeat. 🕊️✨
02/09/2026
Today at 10am!! 🤩
02/07/2026
First part of the series today!
02/05/2026
02/05/2026
Come and learn how lifelong nutrition and chiropractic care benefit the lovely journey of pregnancy, from none other than Dr. Knowlton and Sean Sutherland!
02/05/2026
Most of your CCBC Team spent the morning at the hospital renewing our Neonatal Resuscitation Program Certification.
The vast majority of babies born at term and of low-risk mothers breathe just fine on their own but we are ready for the ones who need more help adjusting to life on the outside.
Although our official certification lasts 2 years, we often have drills as a team to stay on top of our skills.
You matter.
Your baby matters.
Team work (both inside our facility and within our community) matters.
We aim to bring you safe, compassionate and family centered care.
02/04/2026
Join us in our Childbirth Education Series!
Physiology of Labor breaks down the natural hormonal, physical, and emotional processes of labor and birth, helping you understand normal labor patterns, fetal descent, and how the environment and support impact labor progress. Perfect for those who want a deeper, evidence- based understanding of birth without fear or over-medicalization.
Comfort technique for labor class is such an important class, whether you plan to give birth in a hospital, birth center, or at home, this class is designed to support you with practical, evidence-based tools for labor and birth. This class explores hands-on, emotional, and environmental comfort techniques that support the natural process of labor. Participants will learn practical tools such as positioning, movement, breathing, touch, and partner support to promote relaxation, reduce pain, and encourage labor progress. Emphasis is placed on individualized, trauma- informed, and physiologic support during labor and birth.
02/03/2026
Come join us for this class! More details to come in the following days!
All Birth Workers welcome to come and listen in!
01/29/2026
Welcoming all of our new moms and their supportive partners to come and learn about what to do during the first trimester to be set up for success throughout the rest of the pregnancy. While you are here, we will fill out all the paperwork needed prior to the initial prenatal visit, so that you and Midwife Kris have more time to talk about more specific questions and details that are tailored to your thoughts and concerns.
Call us to schedule
361-883-2229
01/29/2026
Join us in our Childbirth Education Series!
Physiology of Labor breaks down the natural hormonal, physical, and emotional processes of labor and birth, helping you understand normal labor patterns, fetal descent, and how the environment and support impact labor progress. Perfect for those who want a deeper, evidence- based understanding of birth without fear or over-medicalization.
Comfort technique for labor class is such an important class, whether you plan to give birth in a hospital, birth center, or at home, this class is designed to support you with practical, evidence-based tools for labor and birth. This class explores hands-on, emotional, and environmental comfort techniques that support the natural process of labor. Participants will learn practical tools such as positioning, movement, breathing, touch, and partner support to promote relaxation, reduce pain, and encourage labor progress. Emphasis is placed on individualized, trauma- informed, and physiologic support during labor and birth.
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Our “story” is a long one. We would love to share more with you if you want to hear the “longer version.” This is actually the “abbreviated version.”
The Birth Center story begins with our founder and the current owner, Beth Overton. Beth began her midwifery journey in 1995 (25 years ago). Beth spent 3 years in schooling and apprenticeship with some of the finest midwives in the state and even traveled out of state to get additional training in Florida. But Beth accredits her most valuable education to Helen Jolly Nelson and her staff midwives at Family Birth Services in the DFW metroplex. Helen is retired now but still active serving on our state’s midwifery board. She and Beth have remained good friends and kept in touch all these years. At one time, Helen was given the nickname the “grandmother” of midwifery in Texas because she has done so much for Texas midwives. This was Beth’s mentor.
There were no birth centers in Corpus Christi at the time Beth began to study, and only one other midwife in the area, who never had any formal training herself. So Beth decided to travel to get a more formal education, not only because the state required it but because that was what she wanted. After completing her education, Beth was licensed and began a home birth practice, which steadily grew over the next 14 years.
During her home birth years, Beth became heavily involved in her midwifery organization and served as President of that organization. She also served on several committees for the State Midwifery Board during an extremely important legislative time for midwives between 2002-2003. It was during this critical time in history for midwives in Texas and under Beth’s leadership, that Texas midwives were able to finally become “licensed” in Texas. Prior to that, midwives were not considered licensed, they were called “documented midwives,” which simply meant they had registered with the state.
In 2003, Beth sat for the NARM exam (North American Registry of Midwives) and became a Certified Professional Midwife. She then went on to become a preceptor for NARM as well as several midwifery schools so that she could teach midwifery students.
Then in late 2011, Beth decided to pursue a dream to open Corpus Christi’s first free-standing licensed birth center. Her dream was to provide more options for more women and to build a practice of like-minded midwives who would work together in harmony. It wasn’t easy. Beth had to remortgaged her home and personally invested all she had into this dream but her investment paid off. Friends and patients jumped in to help, too. They donated furniture and supplies and of course spread the good news.
The Corpus Christi Birth Center opened in May of 2012. The first location was on Santa Fe street in an old home built in 1912. It was a charming old home but it was very small and was rented, not owned. However, since the birth center was so successful that first year, Beth was able to purchase her own building less than two years later.
Beth continued to teach and train new midwives and continued to look for those that would be a good fit for her vision. She loved teaching new midwives almost as much as she does bringing new babies into the world! As the Center continued to grow, two of Beth’s students caught the vision that Beth had for the Center and they were a perfect fit, too. Those ladies are Grace Frantz and Adlai Welfel. Grace was the first to finish. But Adlai also because licensed about a year later. They are both now Certified Professional Midwives. They are both Texas Licensed Midwives, and we are so pleased that they both chose to put down some roots at CC Birth Center as staff midwives.
The Corpus Christi Birth Center is still the only fully licensed free standing birth center for the greater Corpus Christi area. Combined experience for all our midwives is over 25 years! Even Adlai, our “least experienced” midwife has already attended 158 births (as of June 13, 2020). Beth is currently serving as the Clinical Director for the Center. She overseas the clinical practice and provides back up for the staff midwives as needed.
We currently have one student, Katie Hon. Katie is one year into her clinical training and is studying through a MEAC accredited school which is Mercy In Action College of Midwifery. When Katie completes her schooling and apprenticeship, she will become our first student to finish with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Midwifery. We are so excited to grow with the advancement of excellence in midwifery education as we help to advance quality care in our community.
We love the women we get to know and serve. We love all those beautiful babies, too. We hope you will come by and meet us in person, especially if you still have questions.
Well, that was the “abbreviated version” of our story. But all you have to do is ask, if you want to hear the longer version. ;-).
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