At the beginning of 2025, Arkansas had fewer than 50 trained doulas, or trained birth coaches, across the state, according to ...

CHAPEL HILL – Relatively inexpensive interventions were effective in helping health care providers in Latin America improve the way they treat mothers during labor and delivery, reducing bleeding and ...

Miracle Barnes (left) acts as a doula for Amanda Rutledge (center) and Sarah Moyer (right) during a BirthWell Partners labor training exercise in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 23, 2023. BirthWell ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Critical life-saving skills were practiced Thursday on new equipment at Central Oregon Community College. Paramedics and health professionals experienced hands-on training with ...

On a Friday morning in early September, a group of women sit cross-legged facing small candles and flowers in a softly-lit birth training room in Hartford. Six of the women form a circle around a ...

Danita Turner, a nurse at Ward Memorial Hospital, participates in a childbirth training at the hospital in Monahans on Oct. 7, 2025. Like many rural and small hospitals, Ward Memorial does not have a ...

Today's sporting landscape increasingly accepts that athleticism doesn't end when motherhood begins. High-profile athletes ...

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Looking over the books on motherhood written by Elisabeth Bing, one might be forgiven for lumping Ms. Bing in with the blossoming sorority of mother-writers currently expounding on the joys and ...

It’s been a big day for Noelle. It’s only noon, and the medical mannequin has given birth at least a dozen times already. First, it was a series of uncomplicated births. Then, it was births with ...