A midwife’s death days after childbirth complications reignites the conversation around Black maternal health

Janell Green Smith was a certified nurse-midwife and doctor of nursing practice in South Carolina. Less than a week after ...

'Her worst fear has come to pass': Midwife who advocated for Black women dies after giving birth

Janell Green Smith, 31, was determined to reduce racial disparities in maternal health care. Her family hopes her legacy will ...
University of Delaware

Healthier moms, babies

Allie Melchione rushed to Christiana Hospital on a late Saturday afternoon last spring. It would be her first time stepping into a maternity ward with a job to do. It’s a unit she hopes to one day ...
Lexington Herald Leader

Baptist Health Lexington’s nurse gives birth to its first baby of the new year

A Lexington nurse gave birth to Baptist Health Lexington’s first baby of 2025 at the same hospital where she works. Casey Dotson normally assists patients as a nurse on the mother/baby unit of the ...
The Advocate

Nurse midwives could ease Louisiana's infant mortality crisis. Why hasn't the state embraced them?

Chelsea Fazande talks about her pregnancy with Natalie Harvey, a certified nurse midwife with Ochsner Baptist, in New Orleans on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. Fazande went on to deliver a baby girl named ...
New York Post

I’m a nurse and these are the crazy excuses why dads miss kids’ births

Now this is a low-down daddy shame. A labor-and-delivery nurse is virtually pulling back the hospital curtain on the hilariously “absurd” reasons why fathers have missed the births of their children — ...