Green Smith was known for her Black maternal health advocacy and midwife care as Black women are three times more likely to ...

"That a Black midwife and maternal health expert died after giving birth in the United States is both heartbreaking and ...

From Left: Midwives Helena Grant, Martine Jean-Baptiste and Alexis Dunn Amore. While they earned the respect of their communities and occasionally the public at large, midwives were simultaneously ...

The American College of Nurse-Midwives called Dr. Green Smith’s death a “profound failure of the systems meant to protect ...

The student comes in for a pregnancy test — the second time she's asked for one in matter of weeks. She's 15. She lives with her boyfriend. He wants kids — he won't use protection. She loves him, she ...

Midwives offer longer, more personalized prenatal visits, continuous labor support, and culturally sensitive care—while still providing access to interventions like epidurals when desired. Certified ...

In the span of her nearly 20-year career as a licensed midwife who attended hundreds of home births and birth-center deliveries in Los Angeles and Oakland, Racha Tahani Lawler never had a shortage of ...

The Free Birth Society advised pregnant women to avoid doctors and midwives, with deadly consequences. The bigger tragedy is the brutal system the women were so desperate to flee.

As thousands of people are committing to giving up alcohol during Dry January, research from a midwifery lecturer at Northumbria University has been included in new national guidance on the harms of ...