Bevalcentrum Amsterdam is part of EVAA (Eerstelijns Verloskundigen Amsterdam Amstelland). EVAA is an innovative collaboration of 140 primary-care midwives, working across 32 midwifery practices and three ultrasound centres. Their main driving force is to give (expectant) parents and babies a good start, regardless of background or culture.

More than 15 years ago, a group of midwives from Amsterdam-West founded a birth centre in the former Sint Lucas Andreas Hospital — a place where thousands of Amsterdam babies were born.

Bevalcentrum Zuid opens its doors

In the summer of 2023, EVAA opened a second birth centre in Amsterdam Zuid. Here, pregnant women were given the unique opportunity to use nitrous oxide as a safe form of pain relief during labour.

After the merger with OLVG, the birth centre in Amsterdam West moved in 2024 to the Oost location. Here too, we have created a number of beautiful birthing suites, fully equipped to offer women the experience of a home birth.

Initiators Bevalcentrum West

Geboortecentrum “Praktijk Geel”
Geboortecentrum “Praktijk Rood”
Verloskundigen de Baarsjes & Bos en Lommer
Verloskundigenpraktijk van der Hoopstraat
Verloskundigenpraktijk Groei
Verloskundigenpraktijk Vondelpark
De Amsterdamse geboorte praktijk
Verloskundige in Amsterdam (VIA)
Vroedvrouwen praktijk Veilige geboorte
Praktijk mijnvroedvrouw
Praktijk Vroedvrouwen in Verbinding

Initiators Bevalcentrum Zuid

Verloskundigen Zuid
Verloskundigen 101
Verloskundigenpraktijk Groei
De Amsterdamse Geboortepraktijk
Verloskundigen Witsenkade
Verloskundigen Amstelveen Buitenveldert
Verloskundigenpraktijk Amstelveen Ouderkerk
Verloskundigepraktijk Astrid Limburg
Echopunt Oost