'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 ...

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 ...

Women who get pregnant in this window are more likely to live longer: new study

There is one upside to women who get pregnant at certain ages, and it could not only add years to their lives but also ...
WFTV

The perception-reality gap for women giving birth after 35

ORLANDO, Fla. — Melissa Holmes, at 42 years old, became a mother for the second time in 2023, joining a growing trend of women giving birth later in life. Melissa Holmes, 42 The perception-reality gap ...

My midwife told me I was days from death – says Capital DJ as she reveals terrifying experience weeks after giving birth

CAPITAL DJ Aimee Vivian has shared the traumatic ordeal that almost killed her weeks after giving birth. The radio host, 34, ...

Increasing numbers of women are dying during pregnancy or in the weeks after giving birth

Official data found there were 252 maternal deaths from 2022 to 2024, which is 20% higher than the rates from 2009 to 2011.