ST. LANDRY PARISH — A new initiative by the Louisiana Department of Health is set to make doula services more accessible to families across the state. The Louisiana Doula Registry allows doulas ...

Ohio Medicaid started covering doula services in October of last year. It’s part of a state effort to reduce Ohio's higher-than-average infant mortality rate. The rate was at 7.1 in 2023, higher than ...

An effort in Columbia aims to address these troubling trends through a bipartisan bill filed in the House of Representatives that would require Medicaid and private insurers in South Carolina to cover ...

Doula care was associated with 15-34 more vaginal births after cesarean per 100 deliveries and increased exclusive breastfeeding rates by 20%. Support from doulas also reduced preterm births by 3 ...