BirthWorks International Affiliates & Partners

We are growing a network of organizations and professionals who share a vision for transforming birth through knowledge, compassion, and human values. Together, we promote and expand access to holistic birth education and to evidence-based, heart-centered care. This strengthens communities that support birthing families worldwide.

Join a Global Vision to Transform Birth


We inspire and empower parents to trust their abilities—making births better.

Let's shift the global narrative to one that trusts mothers' instinctual birthing wisdom.

Women everywhere deserve birthplace choice. Accelerate the conversation with us.

For caregivers to believe in normal, natural birth, let's discuss what goes right at birth.

We ensure new parents experience choices—for holistic education and informed consent.

The mother-baby dyad reveals the priorities of gentle birth, skin-to-skin, and breastfeeding.

Loving birth practices transform planetary health. Cooperation can make them the norm.

Our Global BirthWorks Affiliates & Partner Organizations

APPPAH
The Association for Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology and Health shares how our earliest experiences (pregnancy, birth, attachment) are foundational to relationships and lifelong health.
Explore Birth Psychology
Simplified Website Design
Our website developer offers design and content support for childbirth educators, doulas, and other birth workers! BWI professionals get 10% off.
Want a Website?
Microbirth
Toni Harman is an author/filmmaker/expert on childbirth's impact on the infant gut microbiome—which predicts development, health, and life-long immunity. BWI co-sponsors conferences and filim launches.
Watch Microbirth
Midwifery Today
A long-time partner, they are returning midwifery care to its rightful position in the family. Their vision of this care as the global norm redefines a vital partnership with women.
Be a Member
Nino Birth
Neuroscience for Improved Neonatal Outcomes reveals cutting-edge, evidence-based science for optimal infant development. Dr. Nils (& Jill) Bergman train our Newborn Care Specialists (Kangaroulas) on how to best support baby (and preemie) needs.
NurtureScience
Primal Health Databank
Dr. Michel Odent developed the Primal Health and Womb Ecology concepts. Now, we understand that conception to the first year of life is a critical period—for each newborn and for global health ecology.
Learn from Odent
TriCare
BWI is a certifying organization for US Defense Health Agency's military family Childbirth & Breastfeeding Support Demonstration. BWI-Certified Birth Doulas can be paid directly for support.
Learn More Here
International SOS
BWI-Certified Birth Doulas (abroad/overseas) get paid to offer birth and newborn support! International SOS manages the TriCare Overseas Program for US military families abroad (on land or water).
Global Benefits

Become a BirthWorks International Affiliate

We partner with like-minded organizations that share our vision for confident mothers, shorter labors, positive birth experiences, and the healthiest beginnings for babies.

By sharing knowledge and resources, we build wisdom and help evidence-based best practices spread more rapidly. Affiliate partnerships among birth organizations accelerate empowerment and expand our collective impact.

Intrigued by the possibility of collaborating synergistically to transform birth so families thrive and flourish into positive futures? Let’s chat!

Benefits of Affiliation

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The BirthWorks Experience!

This unique approach is values-driven, with heart and spirit informing our Philosophy. It believes in the power of women and in their ability to give birth. We honor their intuitive connection to their body and babies. Mothers discover instinctual knowledge within of how to give birth (and care for their babies!). This all-encompassing program focusing on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual—from pregnancy to postpartum—allows parents to embrace all of it fully and prepare for the entire birth experience (and beyond)!

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Unassisted birth (KW)

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Have a Question? Let’s Chat.

Please don’t hesitate to reach us, happy to be in touch.

Cristin Tighe
Executive Director & International Coordinator
info@birthworks.org
1-609-953-9380
1-202-276-3521 Mobile/WhatsApp