Gaby Cavins’ ordeal Gaby Cavins entered her military treatment facility on a Friday afternoon in February 2017 for a prenatal ...

Queer doulas like Bloom began offering services across ... Some of it is helping find resources like a childbirth class that’s gender fluid or an OB that’s not going to misgender you all ...

I'm sitting in a warm, light-filled church on a Saturday morning, surrounded by a group of doulas in training. Two toddlers are also in attendance, babbling and wandering in between the pews.

Ohio's goal is to have six or fewer infant deaths per 1,000 births in the state. Currently, the figure is at 14 per 1,000 births for Black babies, and at five per 1,000 births for white babies.

Childbirth isn’t as simple as it’s made out to be. Kimberly McGinnis, a doula with kids of her own, finds herself explaining this to a lot of new moms. “When we see labor on TV ...

In recent years, more Black women have turned to birth doulas for support throughout their pregnancies and to assist in overcoming disparities in health care and bridging the care gap between ...

Two years after Medi-Cal started covering doula care, a number of doulas say it's a constant fight to get reimbursed for their services. Others say they haven't been paid for some work at all.

Andrea Fagan’s mother Mitzie Derks, a “good, stoic, Michigander” from Muskegon, would never have considered hiring someone to help with her end-of-life care after getting diagnosed with ...