Program for Expecting Mothers Aims to Lower Infant Mortality

Kansas City supports doula program for expecting mothers

Doulas looking to expand their business are receiving a boost.

Fewer preterm births and C-sections. Doulas seen as key to improving maternal health in Kansas City

The new Maternal and Infant Health Center at Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center will provide doula services to maternity patients (Suzanne King/The Beacon).When Tristin Dockery was in labor with her first son in 2021, she only had one request: To get up and walk around her hospital room. The nurse on duty said no. So Dockery, then 20, stayed in her uncomfortable hospital bed as one contraction followed another. It was at the height of COVID. She an…

Program for expecting mothers aims to lower infant mortality

A prenatal program in Columbus is helping expecting mothers. One mother shares her experience as a mother of two.