Hope’s Embrace, a pregnancy care center based in Nicholasville, is helping make birth support accessible to everyone in the Tri-County with this year’s Bumps and Bundles Baby Expo, coming to
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The Midwives of Appalachia Get Organized
Despite the region’s rich history of reproductive care, birth options remain incredibly limited. A group of midwives in Kentucky want to change that.
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When Laura Browning was pregnant for the first time, she knew what she wanted from her birth experience. She wanted a home birth with a midwife, ideally, and if that wasn’t possible, she wanted a nurse-midwife (who are typically hospital-based) to deliver her baby. She associated obstetricians with “quick in-and-out appointments” that lacked personal care and warmth. “I wanted to know who’s going to be delivering my baby who’s going to be catching my baby and have a relationship with them,” recalled Browning, who is now pregnant with her fourth child.