The room was buzzing at the women’s health simulation lab at California State University, Fullerton. That’s because on this day, everyone got their own anatomic model of a pelvis and a baby head.

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AtlantiCare Nurse-Midwife Jeanne Dadura estimates she’s delivered approximately 3,000 babies during her career as a midwife, which spans more than 30 years. When Dadura first began practicing as a ...

When Cal State Fullerton assistant nursing professor Angela Sojobi was completing her education, she was the only black midwife student in her program. The lack of peers that looked like her brought ...

Huston-Tillotson University is starting a new program to train and increase the number of doulas, certified midwives and lactation consultants in Central Texas. With a $763,500 one-year grant from ...

Jerker Liljestrand is Senior Program Officer of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Four babies are born each second of every day. By the time you finish ...