Should I Make a Birth Plan?
May 2, 2025
Should I Make a Birth Plan? Everything First-Time Moms Need to Know If you’re expecting your first baby, you’re probably getting all sorts of advice,
MIDWIFE LED,
Client focused, for over thirty years.
Austin ABC was one of the first birthing centers in Central Texas to be accredited by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers.
Austin's First Birth Center
We have provided the best in prenatal, labor and birth, postpartum, and well woman/GYN care for mothers for over 35 years.
At Austin Area Birthing Center, we’re focused on helping you have a beautiful, comfortable, and natural pregnancy and birth. We accept most major insurance, including United Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna, Humana, Triwest, Oscar, Sana, WebTPA and Tricare.
A Unique Birthing Experience
- Low intervention care throughout pregnancy, labor, and postpartum.
- Nurse-Midwives and Certified Professional Midwives at both locations providing holistic, evidence-based care to childbearing families.
- Classes to prepare families for childbirth.
- Spacious tubs in each birth room for use in labor.
- Waterbirth offered!
- Freedom to move, eat, and drink throughout your birth experience.
- Natural pain relief options as well as nitrous oxide.
Personalized Care
Prenatal visits in a relaxed setting.
Centering Pregnancy, an innovative approach to prenatal care that combines your regular checkups with group support and education.
Private, home-like birthing suites for your labor experience.
Labor support that is tailored to your needs.
Uninterrupted time with your baby for your entire postpartum stay.
Customized schedule for postpartum visits.
Care for a Lifetime
In addition to routine wellness care across the lifespan AABC also offers a wide
variety of birth control methods including:
Self-managed contraceptives, Pills, patches, Nuva rings, diaphragms
Long term contraceptives, Skyla, Paragard IUD, and others
Natural family planning and cycle tracking
Our Services
Austin Area Birthing Center offers holistic wellness, pregnancy, and birth care
with minimal interventions through all stages of life.
Centering Pregnancy is prenatal care that includes your regular health check-up with additional…
Centering Pregnancy
The Birthing Experience
One of the midwife’s most important roles is to support the mother and family with education…
Postpartum Care
After the birth, you will be given your baby to hold with an emphasis on skin-to-skin contact…
AABC offers low cost annual checkups and pap smears for all women in every phase of their lifespan…
Wellness Care
Water Birth
Austin Area Birthing Center’s birthing suites are designed to provide you with a birthing…
Preconception Counseling
Whether you and your partner are planning on getting pregnant or actively trying to conceive…
Schedule a Tour!
Curious to know more? Join us for a group tour of everything that Austin Area Birthing Center has to offer. One of our team members will show you around our beautiful center and birth spaces while explaining our model of care.
Afterwards, one of our office staff will go over general financial info. We will have time for general questions as well, so bring your notepads! Space is limited, so we ask that you please only bring one additional person with you. We look forward to meeting you soon!
From the Blog
Austin Area Birthing Center prides itself on offering a birth experience that will empower the entire family and change lives.
Our blogs are designed to inspire and to give families information about midwifery care and the process of childbirth.
Newborn Care
April 22, 2025
Newborn Care While midwifery care is primarily focused on the mother, midwives also provide care for babies during the first 30 days of life. We
Labor and Birth With Austin Area Birthing Center
April 5, 2025
Labor and Birth With Austin Area Birthing Center Are you a first-time parent and feeling a little uneasy about all of the unknowns? Knowing what