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A Chaotic Week for Pregnant Women in New York City
Early on Sunday, March 22nd, Lauren Pelz got a text from a friend who’d heard that the NewYork-Presbyterian (N.Y.P.) hospital network had decided to bar partners from accompanying women in labor, due to concerns about the spread of covid-19.
Why We Need More Black Doulas
The black maternal mortality crisis is not improving. Doulas can help.
Rates of maternal mistreatment in the US are high across the board — especially for women of color
DURING A ROUTINE prenatal visit in 2009, Lisa Keyser’s obstetrician lectured her about her weight gain. She told Keyser, a former NCAA Division III swimmer in her 20s, that she needed to walk faster when she went to the mall, that she should cut back on soda.
What It’s Like to Be a Doula for Women of Color
Doulas — non-medical professionals who help pregnant women before, during, and after childbirth — typically cost at least $1,000 and are not covered by insurance.
ROMPER Docuseries
This Doula Says Birth Is Especially Dangerous If You're Black, & She's Not Wrong. When you meet Regina Conceição, the doula featured in Episode 2 of Romper’s Doula Diaries, she exudes calm, and calm is clearly what she brought to the birth that the episode follows.
The Amazing People Who Are Changing How Low-Income Moms Give Birth
What Shakima Woolward, 35, wanted most with her third baby was a natural birth.
Her first two children were born via cesarean section for reasons, she said, that were never adequately explained by her doctors. With her second child, now 7, the decision to perform surgery was abrupt.
abc7 Here and Now Show
Here and Now on May 15, 2016: Healthy Start Brooklyn
My Journey as a Doula
My first doula experience happened when I was 13 years old, although I didn’t know it at the time. Every day after school towards the end of my aunt’s pregnancy, my mother would send me over for a couple of hours to help her with chores around the house.