Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hospital staff is always quick to notice when there’s a Hummingbird in the facility. If the doctors and nurses have been through ...

McKayla Lee / Underscore News Pregnancy-related traumas can be not only physical, emotional and spiritual, but also intergenerational, particularly for Indigenous people who have endured a history of ...

It’s the middle of the night, and Autumn Cavender drives down a country road through the pitch-black darkness. It’s a familiar routine for Cavender, who explains that most babies are born between 11 p ...

Stephanne Rupnicki, left, teaches breastfeeding best practice to an Indigenous mom. Rupnicki is on the forefront of an effort to train Indigenous doulas to help curtail rising maternal mortality rates ...

Pregnancy-related traumas can be not only physical, emotional and spiritual, but also intergenerational, particularly for Indigenous people who have endured a history of colonization, genocide, ...

For Indigenous people, having culturally competent care throughout the entire pregnancy, birth, and postpartum period goes even further. By intimately understanding the community they serve, ...

Members and supporters of the Birth Justice Collaborative at the Minnesota Senate Health and Human Services Committee. (Photo courtesy Birth Justice Collaborative) This is your first of three free ...

On the day Livia Marati was due to give birth, Typhoon Mawar barreled toward Guam. Anyone more than 36 weeks pregnant was instructed by the governor’s office to make their way to the island’s only ...

On Monday, June 10, Indigenous Hawai’ian midwives took the witness stand in a humble Honolulu courtroom, testifying for the very first time in opposition of Hawai’i’s Midwifery Restriction Law. The ...

A new birthing and childrearing lodge is nearly ready to open on Sturgeon Lake First Nation, but leaders say the bigger ...

Hospital staff is always quick to notice when there’s a Hummingbird in the facility. If the doctors and nurses have been through this before, they know the birthing team tending to the pregnant ...