Burr Ridge Birth Center (Burr Ridge)

The Burr Ridge Birth Center is a center of wellness for individuals and families seeking empowering, holistic, and respectful healthcare. Led by our team of Certified Nurse Midwives, we aim to challenge the status quo of a healthcare culture that is often impersonal, rushed, disempowering and confusing.

Our approach to care is simple: we value and respect our clients as individuals with unique experiences, needs and expectations.

We celebrate autonomy and our clients’ values and choices. Shared decision-making and trauma-informed care is at the heart of our approach—it is personal, intentional, empowering, and transparent healthcare.

We aim to be an inclusive center where every client feels seen, validated and safe within our walls. We respect and honor all individuals regardless of age, race, ethnicity, religion/philosophy, sexual orientation, ability, gender expression, socio-economic status, or any other personal characteristic.

We acknowledge that family is defined by the client and welcome this family to be involved in our clients’ healthcare, pregnancy, and birth.

Our midwives prioritize evidence-based practices and recognize education as the foundation of optimal healthcare.

We know that pregnancy and birth are normal, healthy and intimate life events, and our role as midwives is to support, protect and guide laboring clients to a safe and empowering birth. We understand the importance of the birthing parent and newborn dyad, and honor this relationship in every aspect of our childbirth and postpartum care.

We are grateful for the opportunity to serve our clients and their families, and to create memorable and powerful connections and moments with you!

Our clients can pay for care in one of three ways — through private insurance, public insurance or self-pay.

Our office manager can run a verification of benefits to help provide you with the full description of your care benefits and what would be your client responsibility before you even choose to move forward with us. Transparency in affording care is just one of the ways we provide full informed consent!

We are currently unable to accept clients who have the following:

• Prior uterine surgery, including previous cesarean birth
• Multiple gestations with this pregnancy (i.e. twins, triplets)
• Chronic health complications (i.e. diabetes outside of pregnancy, hypertension, heart/kidney/lung/blood diseases, hyperthyroidism, neuro-psych disorders, seizure disorders, HIV+)
• Current, active substance or alcohol use during pregnancy

We are unable to accept VBAC clients at this time.

Maternal transfer rate of  14.7% reflects transfers from birth center after admission in labor, of which  14.7% were non-urgent and 0% were urgent. An additional 5.1% of clients tranferred to a hospital postpartum, of which 2.9% were non-urgent and 2.2% were urgent.

Newborn transfer rate was 7.35%, of which none (0%) were urgent.

We host in-person small group orientation/tours on Mondays, Thursdays and Staurdays. You can see the schedule and register here.

The Birth Center offers a range of classes for expectant families, including:

You can see a complete list of upcoming classes here.

Accredited with the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers (CABC)