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    Giving Birth to Hope

    Jun 23, 2022 4 minutes
    by JAVACIA HARRIS BOWSER

    Ashley Rogers didn’t expect to have a cesarean birth. Her pregnancy had been uneventful, and she had been planning a natural birth after her first child had been born via C-section 11 years earlier. So in July 2021, when doctors told her a C-section would be the safest way to deliver, “I was freaking out,” Ashley recalls. Luckily, in addition to her husband, Marley, Ashley had her doula, Nadia Gramby, by her side.

    “I remember lying on the table and Nadia coming over. She whispered, ‘It’s going to be OK. You got this.’ And I was totally fine after that!” says Ashley, who gave birth to her son, Makaio, that day.

    For Black birth workers like Nadia, a doula

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