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“A birth center is where choice meets dignity. Where science and tradition weave together. Where the rhythm of labor is honored—not rushed.”

We support, and are supported by, these sister midwifery organizations.

  • Jamaa Birth Village - Jamaa Birth Village provides culturally-congruent traditional Midwifery care for Saint Louis area families.

  • Birth Center Equity - Birth Center Equity was created to make birth center care an option in every community, by growing and sustaining birth centers led by Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC).

  • NAPCM Bigger Table Fund- NACPM’s Bigger Table Fund is a scholarship initiative to help grow a racially, ethnically and socially representative CPM workforce to meet the urgent needs of childbearing people in our country.

  • Mujeres Aliadas- Midwifery school in Michoacán, México and Women’s Organization for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.

  • birthFUND - WE’RE BUILDING A BIRTH CARE REVOLUTION.

We support these sister midwifery organizations through regular donations.

  • Jamaa Birth Village - Jamaa Birth Village provides culturally-congruent traditional Midwifery care for Saint Louis area families.

  • Birth Center Equity - Birth Center Equity was created to make birth center care an option in every community, by growing and sustaining birth centers led by Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC).

  • NAPCM Bigger Table Fund - NACPM’s Bigger Table Fund is a scholarship initiative to help grow a racially, ethnically and socially representative CPM workforce to meet the urgent needs of childbearing people in our country.

  • birthFUND - WE’RE BUILDING A BIRTH CARE REVOLUTION.

  • Mujeres Aliadas - Midwifery school in Michoacán, México and Women’s Organization for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.

Please look at their websites and consider joining us in upholding their important work in midwifery education and birth equity.

'Mini' Home Detox Package

Retail Price: $1200

  • Breathe easier with this gift certificate for a Natural Haven 'Mini' Home Detox Package, good for up to 2 rooms or product categories. Whether you're just starting your journey toward a healthier home or looking to fine-tune your space, this personalized consultation (available in-home or virtually) offers expert guidance on reducing toxins in your environment.

    Perfect for families with little ones or anyone facing a chronic health challenge—this package is designed to help reduce everyday exposure to harmful toxins and support your path to a cleaner, safer home with clarity and confidence.

    expires 12/31/2025, certificate good one "Mini 'Home Detox' Package" only.

  • Natural Haven

    Founded by Karen Bloom, a consumer products attorney, Natural Haven helps you cut through greenwashing and overwhelm to create a safe, healthy space for you and your family. Includes customized product recommendations and actionable advice tailored to your unique needs.

Fitness - Fuel, and Recovery Package

Retail Price: $500

  • This all-in-one wellness package from CrossFit Santa Barbara is designed to help you move, feel, and perform your best. It includes:

    Nutrition Consultation (30-minute): Personalize your fuel and optimize energy

    Myofascial Release Session (30-minute): Support recovery and mobility

    Personal Training or Physical Therapy Sessions (Two 60-minute): Build strength, address imbalances, or return to movement with confidence

    Whether you're just getting started, recovering from injury, or looking to refine your routine, this package offers expert support for the journey ahead.

  • CrossFit Santa Barbara


    Owned and operated by a Doctor of Physical Therapy, CrossFit Santa Barbara prioritizes the fundamentals of solid movement patterns first, and then builds upon these fundamentals to create well-rounded and resilient athletes. Our excellent coaches ensure that each workout is customized to each individual’s ability level, so that every athlete can maximize their training, while minimizing injury risk. We welcome athletes of ALL abilities – regardless of if you are new to exercise, or compete at a high level.

Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy Session

Retail Price: $275

  • Want to know how best to prepare your pelvic floor for your upcoming birth? Feeling unclear about how to return to exercise postpartum? Are things just not feeling right down there? Motherhood is an athletic event and we love helping women feel strong and confident for all the heavy lifting.

  • Pieton Physical Therapy

    We treat you as a whole person, not as a single body part. The body is designed to move as a coordinated system which is why we support you from a 360° view. Our physical therapists have extensive experience and passion caring for:

    • Pregnancy, Birth Preparation & Postpartum

    • Pelvic Pain

    • Urinary Symptoms

    • Gut & Bowel Health

    • Pain with Intimacy

    • Sport & Orthopedic Injuries

    • Return to Running

Brew “Flight” Package

Item Details: This brewery package is your passport to some of the best pours in town. With tasting flights for two, custom glasses from multiple breweries, and more, it’s the perfect pairing of craft and community—no babysitter required.
Retail: $350

Thank you to our sponsors!

Laulima Process Architect Firm

We help organize & scale your business so that you can make your impact on the world.

Liminal Physical Therapy + Wellness

Inclusive, evidence-based + mindful physical therapy + proactive wellness.

Ocean Perinatal

We believe that informed decision making between a mom and her care team is vital to her health and crucial to the best possible birth outcomes.

The Victoria Project

The Victoria Project is changing maternity care. one safe, holistic, and gentle birth experience at a time.

Curious about the midwifery model or how birth practices shape our world?

Join our director, Laurel Phillips, and Stacy Pulice to hear about the philosophy that guides the Santa Barbara Birth Center. They explore the crucial role of birth centers in transforming maternal care, the systemic barriers that continue to sideline traditional birthing practices, and the remarkable health benefits of midwifery-led care, including dramatically lower C-section rates and improved postpartum support.

Listen here:

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Click below to donate to The Anna Bunting Midwifery Fund to support access to midwifery care including home birth.

Anna was a beloved midwife in Santa Barbara since the 1970s. She was our mentor, our partner, our midwife and our friend. She was an original member of SB Midwifery, and an essential part the history of the Birth Center and of the stories of thousands of families in our town. We love her and she is missed deeply.

Give Here

Celebrate the Season of Giving with SB Birth Center

Your support ensures families continue to receive the compassionate, personalized care SBBC is known for. Let’s continue creating life-changing stories for families in our community—your gift matters!

This holiday season, we’re thrilled to announce a $20,000 matching gift opportunity thanks to the generosity of local doula Kara Rhodes and her family.

We are so grateful for the love and support that our clients and community have provided over the years. Please consider making a donation to help us continue our work! 

DONATE

Make a financial gift, contribute to our matching grant.

VOLUNTEER

Join us by volunteering, giving in-kind, or contributing creatively.

Thank you to our 2024 donors!

We would like to thank our generous donors whose support enables us to offer our services to the community.  Recognition is based upon a donor’s cumulative giving.  Every effort has been made to assure accuracy.

  • Adams Chiropractic

  • Agape the Heart

  • Alkemi Training Labs

  • Ali Johnson

  • Aurielle Whitmore

  • Bettina

  • Bouchon

  • Capri Hotel of Ojai

  • Carp Physio

  • Chandler Davis

  • Christiannah Williams-Ehrman

  • CorePower 

  • Daniel Gibbings Jewelry

  • Integrative Body Therapy

  • Deckers

  • Pieton Physical Therapy

  • Balanced Physioga 

  • Pathways to Natural Health

  • Origins Integrative Medicine

  • Earth Milk Moon

  • Elena Shelton Birth and Wellness

  • Every Birth Matters 

  • Family Constellation

  • Flow Yoga 

  • Futsal S.B.

  • Good Night Moon Child 

  • Harry Cearnal

  • Heart Face Flower Farm 

  • il Fustino

  • Inner Light Midwifery 

  • Island Seed & Feed

  • Therapists in Community

  • Jen Gibian

  • Santa Barbara Family Wellness

  • Judi Cearnal 

  • Kari Arcuri

  • Kenny Loggins

  • Khasy modisette

  • Kindermusik

  • Kinship Creative LLC

  • Lazy Acres

  • SB Novella

  • Santa Barbara Zoo

  • SB Centre for Aerial Dance

  • SB Juice Ranch

  • SB Museum of Natural History

  • Seventh Dimension Dance

  • Sharon Schock

  • Soul Care

  • Soul Cues Nutrition & Wellness

  • Sunshine Swim lessons 

  • Superior Fitness

  • Tend Task, Inc.

  • The Apiary

  • The Farm Cart

  • Thomas Caleel

  • Tristin Tracy photography

  • Virginia Perry

  • Wilson Swimming

  • Wisniewski Chiropractic Inc

  • Wyllow PT

  • Yoga Soup

  • Lupa

  • LynDee Rankin

  • Max Gleason

  • McConnell's Ice Cream

  • Michael Gibian

  • MN Studio

  • Nikki's salon

  • Nikole Paulos Midwifery

  • Olde Oak Meadow Yoga Studio

  • Om Chanti

  • Peace of mind planning

  • Peace of mind planning 

  • Refugio Ranch Vineyards

  • Roots & Herbs

  • Sage Society

  • San Julian Ranch/Elizabeth Poett

  • Santa Barbara Shellfish Company

  • Santa Barbara Tennis Club

Thank you to all our past donors

    • James S. Bower Foundation – Grant

    • Adam & Kara Rhodes

    • Anthony & Kyra Rogers

    • Brittingham Family Foundation

    • Blaine and Valerie Lando, via National Philanthropic Trust

    • Camp Grammy

    • The Caleel Family

    • Christina and Jonathan Siegel

    • Janelle and Daniel Green

    • Anonymous

    • Fund for Santa Barbara

    • Gerald McC. Franklin

    • Stacy & William Pulice

    • Williams-Corbett Foundation

    • Caitlin & Joseph Tufts

    • Dorothy & William Adler

    • Jason and Robin Yardi

    • Santa Barbara Foundation

    • The Saxon Family Fund

    • Christiane Schlumberger/ Karuna Foundation

    • Cleo A. Bluth Charitable Foundation

    • Camp Grammy ♥ Making Memories

    • Harvey Bottleson & Patsy An Grace

      in honor of Sara Miller McCune

    • Jason Isaacs & Leise Thomason

    • Joseph H. Chang, MD

    • K Frank Kids & Home

    • Alice Levine and Phillip Newell

    • Montecito Bank & Trust

    • Santa Barbara Graduate Institute

    • Santa Barbara Tennis Club

    • Laurel & Glen Phillips

    • Dr Sue Carlisle MD

    • Anonymous

    • Becker Family Foundation

    • Buynak & Fauver Law Firm

    • Central Coast Doula Association

    • Deborah & Hiroshi Takikawa

    • Dr. Ronald & Laura Dinning

    • Harvey Bottleson & Patsy An Grace In honor of Sara Miller McCune

    • Howard & Tracy Rochestie

    • Justine Roddick

    • Mathew & Darcy Wronkiewicz

    • Montecito Bank and trust Community Dividends

    • Orfalea Fund

    • Patricia & Steven Forrest

    • Josh & Amy Phillips – Conception Tile

    • Reitz-Dellinger Living Trust

    • Richard Nagy & Shelly Noble

    • Schneiderman/Meinhart Family

    • Bernhard & Beverly Penner

    • FLIR Systems, Inc– Matching Funds

    • Jessica Risko Smith

    • Jules Zimmer

    • Samantha Davis, Adesso Jewelry

    • Tim Rutland

    • Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara

    • Virginia & Marc Bobro

    • Raven Waterfall

    • Jett Black

    • Whitney Rush

    • Ocean Perinatal

    • Laulima Process Architect Firm

    • Liminal Physical Therapy &Wellness

  • Adesso jewelry

    Alice Levine

    Alicia Williams

    Allen Associates

    Alter Eco Chocolatiers

    Amelia Jane

    Amy Phillips

    Anna Bunting

    Anne and Hale Milgrim

    Antoineette

    Artisans

    Ashley Moore of Rincon Designs

    Beach Grill at Padaro

    Beckman Vineyards, Judy Beckman

    Bed Bath & Beyond

    Bella Dolce Bakery

    Bellezza Vita Spa and Salon

    Benjamin Fahrer of Permaculture Artisans

    Billy Baldwin

    Birthing from Within

    Blue Bee

    Blue Caleel

    Boone Printing

    Botanik

    Brett Leigh Dicks

    Buynak & Fauver Law Firm

    Camp Grammy”heart”Making Memories

    Carrie Paine

    Chicken Little

    Chris Ulep

    Citrix Online

    Color Services

    Cosbar

    Crooked Road Winery

    Crosby Loggins

    CVS, Zach Patterson

    Cynthia Lear Stokes with www.hospitaltubs.com

    Dalgene’s Interiors

    Daniel Gibbings Jewelry

    Darian Bleecher

    Dennis Allen Associates

    Devyn Duex – Nebula Dance Lab

    Diane Patterson

    DJ D’ete

    DJ Fab

    Dr. Crystal A. Galvan, D.C.

    Dream Collective Boutique
    Turk Hessellund Nursery

    Udi-G Photography

    Valerie Rodriguez

    Vasant Designs

    Via Maestra, Renato Moiso

    Walking West, Khas Modisette

    White House Florist

    Wine Cask

    www.hospitaltubs.com

    Young’s Market

    Zen Diva Spa

    Laurie Counihan-Childs

    Lazy Acres

    Lisa Field – Elliot

    Live Culture

    Liz Quinn

    Lobero Theatre Foundation

    Lois Mahalia & Bryan Fox

    Maggie Davis, LMT

    Maison K, Kim Phillips

    Mali Sabatasso Jewelry

    Margerum Winery

    Martial Arts Family Fitness

    Matt Metcalfe

    Matt Wallace

    Mattress Mikes

    Maybird Clothing

    Melville Winery

    Michelle Howard

    Minelli Tile & Design

    Mission Security

    Monarch Office Supplies

    Montecito Bank & Trust

    Municipal Winemakers

    Nancy Black

    Native Son Design Studio

    Nicole Strasburg

    Nikole Paulos

    Nu Cuisine

    Om Sweet Mama Catering

    Patsy An Grace & Harvey Bottelsen

    Peet’s Coffee

    Peirre Lafond

    Permaculture, Benjamin Fahrer

    Phil Lacerte

    Pia Dorer

    Pierre LaFond

    PIP Printing

    Platinum Fitness Summerland

    Plow to Porch Organics, Inc.

    Presidio Motel

    Prince Lionheart

    Raven Waterfall

    Rincon Designs, Ashley Moore

    RND Vodka

    Robin MacDougall

    Roy

    Salon U

    Sandy Danaher

    Santa Barbara Biscotti

    Santa Barbara Brewing Co.

    Santa Barbara Fudge

    Santa Barbara Independent

    Santa Barbara Makeup

    Santa Barbara News Press

    Santa Barbara Tennis Club

    Sarah Wheeler

    Shear Pleasure Hair Designs

    Shepherd Farms

    Sigel Boehme Designs

    Signature Parking

    Spencer the Gardener

    Emma, Nick & Sage

    Elvi Morris

    Emilio’s

    Eric Pedersen, Architect

    Erland Wanberg

    Family Life

    Firestone Brewery

    Flora Deva

    Gamelan Sinar Surya

    Gaspar Jewelry, Katie Gaspar

    Giovanna Bologna Graphic Design

    Graphic Ink

    Green Star Coffee

    Gyrotonics of Santa Barbara

    Haagen Printing

    Hannah-Beth Jackson

    Hipstamatic

    ID Press

    Instrumental Music

    Isaac Hernandez

    Island View Construction

    James Fodor

    Jan and Joanna Von Yurt of Goleta

    Valley Mini-StorageJanet Spargur

    Jason & Robin Yardi

    Jeff Bridges and the Abiders

    Jeff Shelton

    Johanna Anderson

    Josh Phillips of Conception Tile

    Joy Margolis

    Judy Beckman of Beckman Vineyards

    Julia Tipolt

    Julie Schneiderman

    K. Frank Kids & Home

    Karen Bezuidenhout

    Karen Michales, MFT

    Karma Tequila

    Kate

    Kathryn Pieron, LMT, LE

    Katie Gaspar of Gaspar Jewelry

    Kim Fisher Photography

    Kim Phillips of Maison K

    KLITE

    KRUZ

    KTYD

    La Petite Chouette

    Lars and Nils Wanberg

    Larry Lee Consulting

    Laura Macker

    Stacy Smith

    Supply Room Boutique

    Suzanne Curtis

    Talina Hermann

    Tennis Club of Santa Barbara

    Tent Merchant

    TheStationery Collection

    The Lobero Theater Foundation

    Toad the Wet Sprocket

    Tracy and Howard Rochestie