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Doulas can improve health outcomes for women and babies. Insurers are taking notice.

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By Marina Kopf Verified, Zinhle Essamuah Verified
| WBTS-TV (Boston, MA) Verified
Like many first-time moms, Nathalia Marin Torres was excited when she found out she was pregnant last August, but she was also a bit nervous. The 33-year-old Colombia native didn’t click with her OB-GYN and felt like she needed more support navigating the health care system in the United States. “When you’re kind of far away from family and from your culture, it’s a little bit overwhelming,” Torres said. She was referred to Alexia Franco Pettersen, a Mexican American doula in Minneapolis.
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A woman gave birth 8 minutes after a hospital turned her away. A bill aims to stop that from happening again. Original

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By Zinhle Essamuah Verified, Stefanie Cargill
| NBC News Verified
A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labor, after a video circulated of a Black woman writhing in pain at an Indiana hospital. She was told to go home and gave birth in her truck minutes later. Rep.
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Black mothers in Texas and Indiana say hospital staff ignored cries for care while they were in labor

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By Zinhle Essamuah Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Two Black women said they were denied immediate medical attention despite being minutes away from giving birth. The incidents, which happened days apart in different states, highlight long-standing disparities in health outcomes for Black women, health experts say. In a TikTok video that has gone viral, Texas resident Karrie Jones can be seen screaming while a nurse at Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite asks a series of intake questions, including her due date.
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