How Doulas and Midwives Can Reduce Black Maternal Mortality
How Doulas and Midwives Can Help Combat the Racial Biases of Western Medicine 0 Shares American mothers die in childbirth at a greater rate than mothers in all other "developed" countries — three times more than in Britain and Canada, for instance, according to a 2018 report by NPR and ProPublica. Additionally, for every woman who dies during labor in the US, at least 70 experience complications that bring them close to death. In other words, a mother quite literally puts her whole existence on the line anytime she tries to bring life into the world. Peter Bernstein, MD, MPH, program direct...