While sociologists have long explored health and illness, much of it has been androcentric
and White‐centered. Scholars began to focus more on women's health including pregnancy …

Background Birthing people of color experience disproportionately higher rates of infant and
maternal mortality during pregnancy and birth compared to their white counterparts. The …

Purpose: Birth doulas support pregnant people during the perinatal period. Evidence of
doulas' positive impacts on pregnancy and birth outcomes, particularly among underserved …

Objective To understand motivators and barriers of aspiring midwives of color. Data Sources
and Study Setting Primary data were collected via a national online survey among people of …

This article documents the experiences of Black birthworkers supporting pregnant and
birthing people and new mamas during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic …

Mentoring involves a reciprocal relationship between a more experienced person (mentor)
who offers guidance and counsel to a less experienced person (mentee). Reported benefits …

Context Community‐based birth doulas support pregnant women, transgender men, and
gender non‐binary individuals during the perinatal period and provide essential services …

Over the past five decades in the United States, White women have breastfed at higher rates
than Black women. While a small but growing body of social historical research has …

Objective The lived-experience of race and racism among historically vulnerable
populations needs critical examination in the United States'(US) maternal and reproductive …

Non-Hispanic Black mothers are 2.3 times more likely than White mothers to receive
delayed or no prenatal care. Black women possess a long history of midwifery-led care, but …