Amid High Mortality Rates Black Women Turn To Midwives

Fountain Valley, CA - June 29:Midwife Angie Miller listens to the heart beat of MyLin Stokes Kennedys baby with her wife Lindsay and their child Lennox, 21 months, at their Fountain Valley home on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. Black women are turning to midwives to avoid racism, mortality rates and unnecessary C-sections in the hospitals. In Los Angeles County, mortality rates among Black mothers from perinatal complications are four times higher compared to White women. Black infants are three times more likely to die before reaching their first birthday. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)