Birth Detroit Care is for every birthing person with a low-risk pregnancy. During your first visit, the Birth Detroit care team will talk with you about your health, your pregnancy, your goals for your care, and help determine whether or not community-based midwifery care is right for you. If more specialized care is needed, we will refer you to an appropriate trusted healthcare provider. No one will be turned away. 

Birth Detroit Care is a community-based maternal health practice, offering prenatal and postpartum care by midwives, as well as childbirth education and postpartum support. Birth Detroit Care is patterned after the JJWay® maternal health model Easy Access Clinic™, which centers access, connection, knowledge and empowerment as keys to a healthy pregnancy, healthy birth and healthy baby. Birth Detroit provides safe, quality, loving care through pregnancy, birth and beyond. 

Midwives are healthcare providers trained to provide safe, nurturing, hands on care to birthing people before, during and after birth. Midwives approach pregnancy and birth as normal physiologic life events. They provide full spectrum prenatal, postpartum, and interconception care, and focus on building trusting relationships, meeting your educational needs and being a partner to you and your family during your pregnancy, birth and postpartum journey. 

Birth Detroit Care offers telehealth and in-person prenatal and postpartum care visits. Our team looks forward to connecting with you and your family to provide warm, personalized, respectful care, including confirmation of pregnancy, prenatal screenings and labs, ultrasound, education and shared decision making, nutrition and breastfeeding support, labor preparation and warm referral to a trusted provider for your baby’s birthday, and postpartum maternal infant-health and breastfeeding support check-ins.

Your pregnancy and postpartum journey can be up to 120 days (if you include the postpartum fourth trimester). Birth Detroit Care is here for you for the journey. In addition to prenatal and postpartum care, Birth Detroit offers childbirth education and postpartum support.

Birth Detroit Care accepts insurance, and no one is turned away for not having insurance. We are a community-based maternal health practice working to build insurance payor relationships. Birth Detroit Care is generously funded as an innovative and promising community maternal health model by local and national philanthropy, grants and individual donors.

Birth Detroit Care is now located at 8575 Heritage Place, Detroit, MI 48204.

In 2018-2019, we asked in our community survey if you thought a birth center was a good idea for your community and got a resounding YES! We also heard that you wanted more time in prenatal visits, quality childbirth education, postpartum support and a partner that treats you as a partner, involves your partner, and respects your race, culture, language, gender identity, attractional orientation and life experiences. We heard that you want community midwifery care now. So, started with Birth Detroit Care first in 2020, as we planned for the birth center to open in the next couple years. The birth center is now open too!