Opinion editor’s note: Editorials represent the opinions of the Star Tribune Editorial Board, which operates independently from the newsroom. More than 8% of Minnesota babies are born to women living ...

A young midwife who was born without a womb will get to deliver her own baby – after her best friend offered to be her surrogate. Georgia Barrington, 28, was diagnosed with ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Miriam Timblin graduated from Faith Christian Academy in 2022 and is now taking a significant step toward her dream of becoming a midwife by taking it international. Timblin ...

Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden was born into slavery on a plantation in Black Mountain, North Carolina. She remained there after being freed in 1865, going on to become a midwife. In this animated feature ...

It would be understandable if certified nurse midwife Rachel Blessington wanted to keep her head down in the busy work of delivering babies and caring for women. With options for prenatal and ...

BENTIU, South Sudan (AP) — Elizabeth Nyachiew was 16 when she watched her neighbor bleed to death during childbirth. She vowed to become a midwife to spare others from the same fate in South Sudan, a ...

Binta Niang dreams of becoming a midwife and returning to her native Mali to help women. But her dream is blocked by a credit-killing debt for – of all things – an uninsured visit to an emergency room ...