Baltimore’s city health department has started a pilot program to train city residents to become doulas — non-medical companions who provide emotional support and comfort to women during delivery. The pilot program, aimed at low-income moms in the department’s B’More Healthy Babies program launched in 2010, has helped reduce infant mortality in the city.

Andrea K. McDaniels, The Baltimore Sun, August 1, 2017.

URL: www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-doula-infant-mortality-20170725-story.html