I'm sitting in a warm, light-filled church on a Saturday morning, surrounded by a group of doulas in training. Two toddlers are also in attendance, babbling and wandering in between the pews.

Ohio's goal is to have six or fewer infant deaths per 1,000 births in the state. Currently, the figure is at 14 per 1,000 births for Black babies, and at five per 1,000 births for white babies.

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 ...

Not long after, social media users coined a term to highlight that distinction: "FOTUS," or Felon of the United States—a play on the common President of the United States acronym "POTUS." ...

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 ...

Two years after Medi-Cal started covering doula care, a number of doulas say it's a constant fight to get reimbursed for their services. Others say they haven't been paid for some work at all.

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 ...

Even in her practice as a death doula, she can't take away a grieving family's pain. She can't bring back what's gone. However, under the right circumstances, Gikonyo can make it somewhat beautiful.

(Alessio Donnini/CBC) A recent policy change at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) to curb the rapid spread of measles has some doulas worried about the emotional and physical impact it could ...