Who are you?

We are Amy, Siri, and Anna of Snohomish Midwives. We have been members of this community and catching babies for many years, mostly in homes and freestanding birth centers all over Snohomish County. You can read more about us individually here.

What are your goals?

We hope to make this birth center space an accessible, inclusive place for families to receive prenatal and postpartum care, give birth, and gather as a community.

Do you take insurance?

Access to midwifery care is one of our core values, and we are actively working to contract with all major insurance providers. Currently, our contract with state insurance (Apple Health) is active, and all others are in process. To cover our overhead costs, we are charging a $2000 facility fee, due by 36 weeks, for all clients who do not have Apple Health.

We will update our clients and this page as insurance contracts activate. Our hope is that insurance companies will reimburse for our facility fee retroactively, in which case we would reimburse you in full. You may also submit the cash fee to your insurance as a superbill, which may be reimbursed; however we have not had any clients try that to date.

This cash fee is optional. If you are not able or do not wish to pay it, you have the option of birthing at either Sprout Birth Center in Mountlake Terrace or Puget Sound Birth Center in Kirkland. We are privileged at and work closely with both of these facilities and are happy to support you there. We are also happy to strategize about payment plans with you if your heart is set on EBC.

Sadly, KaiserCORE and TriCare will not contract with certified professional midwives. We can take these clients on a cash pay basis only.

Wasn’t this already a birth center?

Yes! 2808 Colby Ave hosted Cascade Midwives & Birth Center from 1995-2022. We (Snohomish Midwives) were not involved with Cascade; in fact, we were primarily a home birth practice before this! We are excited to bring new energy into the space as Everett Birth Center.

What is a midwife, anyway?

We are Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs), which means that we provide prenatal, perinatal, postpartum, and newborn care for healthy, low-risk people. We are licensed in the state of Washington to catch babies at homes and free-standing birth centers, and work collaboratively with hospital providers if the need arises.

We are guided by the Midwives Model of Care©. The core principles of this model are:

• Monitoring physical, psychological, and social well-being throughout the childbearing cycle

• Providing individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous hands-on assistance during labor and delivery, and postpartum support

• Minimizing technological interventions

• Identifying and referring when obstetrical attention is indicated

Is midwifery care safe?

For low-risk people, the short answer is YES!… Particularly in a state like Washington, where midwives are well-integrated into the medical system.

To quote an article from Motherly (2025):

According to research from the CDC and the Commonwealth Fund, when midwives are fully integrated into health systems—able to prescribe medication, admit patients to hospitals, and work without burdensome oversight—maternal and infant outcomes improve dramatically. We’re talking 41% fewer maternal deaths, 39% fewer newborn deaths, and 26% fewer stillbirths.

Midwifery is associated with increased rates of spontaneous vaginal birth, improved satisfaction with quality of care, and an increase in positive breastfeeding experiences.

Midwifery care is  also associated with reduced rates of labor induction and augmentation, as well as lower rates of cesarean section and forceps delivery, reduced use of regional anesthesia, fewer preterm births, decreased perineal tears, decreased infant mortality rates, and lower costs for both clients and insurers.

Not only is midwifery safe for low risk families, but families are more likely to reflect positively on their pregnancy and birth experience. Midwives believe in a sharing of power and decision making. This leads to increased reports of their clients feeling in control, competent, and empowered. 
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In other words... the majority of pregnancies fall in the category of "normal" and "low-risk.”  And for those people, choosing midwifery care gives them the greatest chance of having a normal, uncomplicated birth and reduces the risk that they will have a cesarean delivery, even if they have to transfer their care to the hospital during labor.​