Maternity
Tuesday 31 October 2023 North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) maternity staff have been working with women from black and Asian backgrounds to improve outcomes and experiences during pregnancy and birth. Project SMILE was set-up with funding from Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Vaccination Programme’s Reducing Inequalities Grant Awards to look at the experience […]
Discussion Approximately one in five surveyed women reported mistreatment and approximately 30% reported discrimination during maternity care. These experiences were more common among Black, Hispanic, and multiracial mothers. Approximately one half of respondents reported holding back from discussing questions and concerns during maternity care. These findings highlight the gaps in delivering respectful maternity care and […]
Metro Mommy Agency offers Black women in Miami-Dade county increased access to doula services The U.S. has a crisis when it comes to maternal health: in 2020, the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. was three times higher than in most other high-income countries. Not only that, but it
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Reproductive Rights Reporting Fund. JASPER — Ginger Kalafatis burst through the doors of Jasper Memorial Hospital, straight into her worst nightmare. It was Labor Day […]
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Reproductive Rights Reporting Fund. JASPER — Ginger . . .
Maternal care is becoming increasingly difficult to access in the United States, according to a report released Tuesday by the March of Dimes, a nonprofit organization focused on improving the health of pregnant people and babies. More than a quarter of counties in the U.S., 36%, have no obstetric hospitals or birth centers and no […]
This map from the nonprofit March of Dimes shows maternity care deserts across the U.S. in 2020. March of Dimes/US Health Resources and Services Administration. hide caption toggle caption March of Dimes/US Health Resources and Services Administration. This map from the nonprofit March of Dimes shows maternity care deserts across the U.S. in 2020. March […]
After pushing for several hours, my patient looks exhausted but happy, clutching her seconds-old newborn to her chest. As I help her put her baby to breast for the first time, she isn’t thinking about anything other than the tiny human blinking up at her. As well she shouldn’t. She doesn’t know that this birth […]
TUESDAY, Oct. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Pregnancy can be safer and healthier for both mom and baby with good access to quality maternity care. Yet, the United States is still among one of the most dangerous developed nations for childbirth, especially in rural areas and communities of color, according to a new March of […]
The home birth had been going well, with the baby having been delivered safely, when midwife Lauren Genter noticed that the mother was losing more blood than normal. The family was Amish and didn’t have a phone in the house, so Genter took her cellphone to the one window where she had spotty service to […]