Roots Community Birth Center

06/01/2026

Weekly Parenting Group at Roots! 🌱

When: Thursdays, 10-11:30am

Where: Roots

*FREE for current, former, and non-Roots families!

Perfect for families with young children.

Coffee and snacks provided. ☕️

Transportation assistance is available if needed 🤲

Led by Roots midwife Rachel Voigt, CPM ✨

Sign up on our website or call the front desk! 🪴

05/28/2026

05/27/2026

Meet our Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) 🌱

Camila (she/her) is an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant with Roots and loves dismantling barriers for the families she serves. Through her experience, she has become deeply passionate about advocating for informed consent and supporting families where they are, whether it is prenatal or postnatal, to help them achieve their lactation goals while helping reduce barriers.

She was born in Chile with ancestral ties to the Mapuche people of her country, but has lived in the United States most of her life. She has made Minneapolis her home for over 10 years never leaving her artsy neighborhood.

She has been working in the lactation field for over 7 years, and is also an Indigenous birth doula, a Reiki practitioner, a body worker and artist.

She lives in Minneapolis with her partner, their two children, one cat, one dog and 4 hens. She loves reading, getting her toes in the soil while gardening, and making things with her hands.

She is an activist to the core, and is very involved in maternal health, q***r reproductive rights and equity. You can always find her talking about pottery, plants, hiking and books.

Consults are offered in English and Spanish ✨

05/21/2026

Join us for Childbirth Education at Roots 🌱

In person OR virtual options available. ✨

4 hour class that covers:
- Stages of labor
- Hands-on comfort measures and positions for coping
- Tools for handling unexpected situations
- Understanding postpartum, newborn care, and feeding basics

FREE for Roots families 🌱 Open to folks not birthing with us for $150.

Link in bio to our website to sign up or call our front desk ✨

05/19/2026

Childbirth Education at Roots! 🌱

In-person OR virtual options available. ✨

4 hour class that covers:
- Stages of labor
- Hands-on comfort measures and positions for coping
- Tools for handling unexpected situations
- Understanding postpartum, newborn care, and feeding basics

FREE for Roots families 🌱 Open to folks not birthing at Roots for $150

Link in bio to our website for more information or call the front desk to sign up! ✨

05/13/2026

The new Roots Birth Center is fully open! 🌱

For folks coming in for clinic visits, please come in the front door. 🤰🏾

For folks in labor, please come to the right side of the building, you’ll see a door to access the birthing suites. ✨

05/12/2026

We're hiring! 🌱

Roots is seeking a part time clinic & birth assistant to join our team. ✨

Our ideal birth assistant is experienced in attending births, has an NRP certification, CPR certification, is familiar with IM injections, venipuncture and is cool, calm and collected. 🤰🏾

Members of this role work closely alongside the midwife in both clinic and birth settings to room clients, collect maternal, fetal and neonatal vitals, collect labs, chart in clinic & births, be responsive to emergencies under the direction of the midwives and keep both the clinic and birth suites clean and stocked. 🌱

This role has been filled by Medical Assistants, Registered Nurses, and midwifery students. ✨

We are a close-knit team of folks who firmly believe that access to midwifery care, culturally appropriate care, and trauma informed health services are a right of all people, and we seek to provide these services daily. 🤲

If interested, please see the LINK to our job posting and send an email to [email protected] with your resume.
https://www.indeed.com/job/birth-clinic-assistant-d4a7e0c604118d52

05/05/2026

Happy International Day of the Midwife to our beloved midwives at Roots Community Birth Center + around the world. ✨

The work they do daily is so vast and imperative to the health and wellbeing of birthing people and their babies.

At Roots, our midwives see folks in clinic prenatally, postpartum and for well person care; lead childbirth education classes and parenting groups; support folks through birth at our birth center; and all the behind the scenes advocacy work to improve access and outcomes for families locally and nationally. ✨

05/04/2026

The first baby has been born at our new Roots Community Birth Center! 🌱

This family had a fast first birth- baby was born within 15 minutes of arriving at our birth center! They were surrounded by the best birth team: partner, doula, midwife + birth assistant, and birth photographer. It was an unforgettable first birth in our new space. We are overjoyed for this family and will continue to support them for postpartum care and beyond.

Welcome to the world, sweet baby Zai! ✨

Midwifery care: Roots Community Birth Center

Doula support: Kayla Hernandez, My Love Grows

Birth photography: Gather Birth Cooperative .of.gatherbirth

05/01/2026

C-Section Awareness Month | April, 2026 🌱

Every year, April is the month dedicated to bringing awareness to cesarean births and the impacts it has on birthing families. We’ve continued to see a rise in the frequency of c-section births broadly in our country and locally in our state. Care at Roots Community Birth Center itself is a preventative model of care that reduces preventable c-sections. Our midwives are skilled in supporting low-risk pregnancies and physiologic birth.

Roots Community Birth Center is one of the few stand-alone birth center in the state of Minnesota that can support VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) families. ✨ Promoting VBAC as a safe option for many, is an important component of Cesarean Birth Awareness Month. At Roots, we can support care for those who have had one cesarean birth.

While Roots midwives does not perform cesarean surgery, we do care for folks who started in our care prenatally, needed to give birth via c-section for various medical reasons and resume care with them postpartum once they are discharged home from the hospital. The frequency of our visits postpartum (compared to conventional OB postpartum visits) support the emotional load of a change in birth and postpartum more fully. 🌿

Through awareness, advocacy, research, and resources we can move towards reducing the incidence of c-sections in this country, supporting mental health and advocating for vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC). ✨

Birth Photography: .of.gatherbirth Birth Cooperative: Birth Support, Birth Photography, and more