In recent years, hundreds of hospitals closed in rural areas across the U.S., and the maternity wing often has been one of the first units to go. That's led to expansion of an older model: Midwives helping women give birth at home. WyPublicRadio
When the West was first being settled, women didn’t have the option to go to the hospital to give birth. Today that still can be the case as
For me, this isn’t a familiar idea at all. I wasn’t born anywhere near a farm. My mom gave birth to me and my older brother in New York City. I wondered about the difference between giving birth in an urban versus a rural setting.“We lived very close to a hospital,” my mom Bozena says. “It was like a block away, maybe 500 to 600 meters, so you couldn’t take a cab or car or whatever. You had to walk,” she said. “It was the middle of the night. I think it was Monday and I decided we had to go.
So my mom walked back home and, when she felt more contractions, she walked to the hospital again. My mom kept on saying she felt alone when she was pregnant with my brother. He was her first kid and she had no immediate family in the United States so she was depending on doctors and hospitals.
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