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Gabrielle Glaze felt scolded and shamed when she delivered her first son in a Birmingham, Alabama, hospital, forced to observe strict rules about lying stationary through her contractions and enduring countless cervical checks from “total strangers” who seemed disappointed by her body’s progress. So when Glaze, 33, gave birth to a second son in a birthing center in April, surrounded by a team of midwives who said they would let her body lead the way, it seemed as if her previous labor experience

Some say the facilities, which focus on autonomy in childbirth, could lead to better health outcomes — but officials are tightening rules, citing risk.

CHARLES TOWN — Members of Kable Team Realty gathered once again this year to organize their second annual coat drive to benefit both the Martinsburg Union Rescue Mission and Jefferson

Stephen Thomas, the principal of St. Andrew's, has been selected to participate in the Extraordinary Educators Leadership Collaborative.

In a series of essays detailing the profound influence the wilderness had on Harriet Tubman, Louisa May Alcott, Laura Smith Haviland and others, the author explores how the outdoors presents an opportunity for women and girls to exist in an unbound space.