a civilian birth doula, mother of three, and 17-year Air Force veteran who works as a Department of Air Force gender adviser. That extra support, advocates say, is especially critical for younger ...

Virginia Union University (VUU) made history Tuesday morning as the first historically Black university in the state to ...

Queer doulas like Bloom began offering services across ... Some of it is helping find resources like a childbirth class that’s gender fluid or an OB that’s not going to misgender you all ...

Childbirth isn’t as simple as it’s made out to be. Kimberly McGinnis, a doula with kids of her own, finds herself explaining this to a lot of new moms. “When we see labor on TV ...

In recent years, more Black women have turned to birth doulas for support throughout their pregnancies and to assist in overcoming disparities in health care and bridging the care gap between ...

On Dec. 6, 2018, Holly Wilkerson of Hempfield had an appointment to find out the gender of her baby she and ... her if she would like a bereavement doula, a person who has special training in ...

The struggles she has seen in her community led her to seek more training to help people face death, and in 2022 she added another credential to her spiritual one: end-of-life doula. “ ...

For 24 years, Natalie Ann Evans has worked as a birth doula, providing comfort and support to parents ushering new life into the world. But after caring for her mother in hospice in 2014 ...

Andrea Fagan’s mother Mitzie Derks, a “good, stoic, Michigander” from Muskegon, would never have considered hiring someone to help with her end-of-life care after getting diagnosed with ...