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Rural Missouri families face longer drives, riskier births as maternity wards vanish

missouriindependent.com · 16h · first reportShare

Melanie Pierce works with many pregnant women who know they’ll have a long drive ahead of them when labor starts. One of her jobs as a doula living in Mansfield, Missouri, is helping families answer a question that may not be as fraught for women who live closer to a delivery hospital: When is it […]