RMOMS is a federally funded grant program that seeks to improve maternal health in rural communities. The Texas and Missouri RMOMS representatives with us today that you’ll hear from...

For true innovation in maternal health to occur, we need to take a look at what works (and what needs improving) with maternal health in various cultures. On this...

Vanessa Caldari founded Mujeres Ayudando Madres because she I realized that midwifery care, especially in Puerto Rico, was really for people with access to the finances and the education to have...

In the Appalachian region, poverty is a huge concern. Too often, pregnant women miss appointments because they don’t have the money for gas. Or they’ll have a baby on...

Black women have twice the rate of preterm birth compared to white women, and that has persisted despite decades of research, despite differences in socioeconomic status, maternal education, access...

Eight years ago, when To-wen Tseng returned to work after giving birth to her first child, her right to pump at work was denied and the company refused to...

The sad reality is that people in rural communities don’t have as many resources to healthcare, and that includes adequate prenatal and maternity care. For Shaunette Howard, her biggest...

According to today’s guest, Dr. Rachel Caskey, “stark disparities exist whereby Black women are nearly three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related condition compared to white women....

For Birth Sisters Doula Services‘ LaToshia Rouse, becoming a doula changed her entire life because she gets to give people exactly what she wishes she had while delivering her...