Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
In the US, more than 250,000 babies annually are now born under the watchful gaze of a midwife, rather than a traditional medical doctor, and the number is growing. A panel of experts joins Kojo to discuss how the childbirth experience differs when an expectant mom is accompanied by a midwife and why midwife services are now being sought by women across the economic and cultural spectrum.
Guests
- Judith Pence Rooks Author of "Midwifery and Childbirth in America"
- Ruth Lubic Director of The DC Developing Families Center
- Mary Hammond Tooke Nurse-midwife at the Bethesda Birthing Center
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