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Development Office
The Birth Sister's Program
Ensuring that BMC’s vulnerable populations receive culturally competent and comprehensive maternity care,
the Birth Sisters Program is providing prenatal, labor, birth and postpartum support services within clinic,
hospital and home environments. The Birth Sisters, many of whom are bilingual and come from a variety of cultural
and ethnic backgrounds, assist women from the early stages of pregnancy to postpartum, enhancing the services already
offered by BMC physicians and nurse midwives. Women seeking to become a Birth Sister must undergo a rigorous training
course to qualify them to perform these services. Patients are referred to the program by their prenatal providers,
and generally have an increased risk for complications of pregnancy based on physical and social factors. By
reinforcing the teaching and counseling provided by the doctors and nurse midwives, the Birth Sister also serves
as a confidante, enhancing the prenatal provider’s ability to identify any problems which would place the woman and
her newborn at increased risk for complications.
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