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Neighborhood Birth Center aims to tackle maternal health disparities
Black birthing individuals have two to three times the maternal mortality and morbidity risk as white individuals. Nashira Baril, founder of the Neighborhood Birth Center in Boston, knows of the disparities in maternal health all too well. “There is a crisis in maternal health, and it bears down inequitably to communities of color, particularly around Black folks in this country….
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Neighborhood Birth Center to open facility emphasizing midwifery in Roxbury
New funding is helping to create a safe, nurturing environment for mothers in Boston.
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Alabama woman with rare double uterus is expecting a child in both
A woman in Alabama who was born with a rare double uterus is pregnant in both uteri.
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Woman in labor walks from Fenway concert to Boston hospital to have son
A woman who went into labor just before a Pink concert at Fenway Park ended up walking to the hospital to give birth last week. Angela Mercer’s new baby boy is healthy and her family is overjoyed, despite having missed the show they came to Boston to see, according to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where Mercer walked from Fenway....
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Maria Menounos says she's “grateful to be alive” after welcoming baby girl
Maria Menounos is reflecting on the many health and personal challenges she’s overcome while giving followers a peek into her life as a new mom to daughter Athena.
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Meet ‘Baby Pike,' the boy born on I-90 Sunday
Massachusetts, meet “Baby Pike,” the boy who was born on Interstate 90 as his mother was heading to the hospital on Sunday. Audelina Ordonez Barrios was heading east on the Mass. Pike Sunday evening when she gave birth to her son on the highway before she could make it to Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, she told NBC10 Boston. The…
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Mom introduces baby born on Mass. Pike in Westborough
Audelina Ordonez Barrios introduces her son, a healthy baby boy she’s nicknamed “Baby Pike,” after he was born on I-90 in Westborough.
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Baby Hippo Born at the Dallas Zoo
Mom Boipelo gave birth to the much anticipated baby last Sunday at the Dallas Zoo.