More than half of Mississippi is considered a maternity care desert, with no hospitals providing obstetric care, no OB-GYNs and no midwives. Read more from KRRoyals:
by Kate Royals, Mississippi Today‘Death at your toes’: A look inside a Mississippi maternity care desert by Kate Royals, Mississippi Today November 3, 2022 YAZOO CITY — Jamara Johnson knew something was wrong when she went into labor with her third baby early in the morning of Aug. 30. She was 38 weeks pregnant and had been in pain the night before. She attributed it to overextending herself while cleaning her apartment in Yazoo City – “nesting,” she said.
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