The US has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Journalist and broadcaster Elaine Welteroth has launched a birth fund, and an advocacy movement, to combat this. After what she ...

Birth Justice is a framework created in Overtown, Miami, Florida, in 2010 at Power U Center for Social Change. That framework ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Queer couple who is pregnant Parents-to-be hire midwives for a myriad of reasons, from wanting a home birth to more personalized ...

Giving birth in America is not safe enough. And when the person giving birth is Black, it is just plain dangerous. In 2021 the maternal mortality rate for Black women was 2.6 times the rate for white ...

In the state of Washington, a planned home birth with a licensed midwife is just as safe as a birth at a licensed birth center. Researchers arrived at this conclusion after analyzing outcomes of more ...

Each year, there are nearly 70,000 births in Massachusetts. Of those, approximately 17% were attended by a midwife. That's according to the latest census data from 2020, as reported by the Centers for ...

For many women, a nurse midwife is the perfect choice for their pregnancy or gynecology care. A nurse midwife is a registered nurse who receives extra training from an accredited midwifery program and ...

Midwives have helped women to deliver babies for centuries and they were present at most births until the early twentieth century. Today, more than 12% of all births, both vaginal and C-section, in ...

Staff at the North Shore Birth Center on the campus of Beverly Hospital say they’ve delivered their last baby. The center was the only stand-alone midwife-led birth center currently delivering babies ...

New midwifery services became available for Lane County’s expecting mothers this week, filling a gap in women’s health options after PeaceHealth closed its midwifery birth center in August.