Morning Star Women's Health & Birth Center provides comprehensive maternity and women's health care services to patients throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area. The center is a freestanding birth center where families give birth in a home-like environment. In addition to labor and childbirth, its services include health screenings, risk assessments, prenatal care, labor support, postpartum care (for mother and newborn through 6 weeks after delivery), nutritional counseling, childbirth preparation classes, breast feeding counseling and family planning.