Fewer preterm births and C-sections. Doulas seen as key to improving maternal health in Kansas City

The new Maternal and Infant Health Center at Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center will provide doula services to maternity patients (Suzanne King/The Beacon).

When Tristin Dockery was in labor with her first son in 2021, she only had one request: To get up and walk around her hospital room.

The nurse on duty said no…

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