Providing in a Pandemic: The Challenges of Rural Maternity Care Just Got More Difficult (Daily Yonder)

Karen Clemmer 6/24/2012:16 PM

By Mikhal Ben Joseph, June 24, 2020, Daily Yonder.

Rural moms already faced a host of obstacles to get good prenatal care. Rural nurse midwives and doulas are trying to fill the gap. (Part of a series.)

Mothers all over the country faced new hurdles when Covid-19 turned birth plans upside down: fathers not allowed to attend prenatal care visits, temporary closure of health clinics and OB/GYN offices, concerns over mother-to-baby transmission of the disease.

In rural America, it made the tough job of finding good maternity care that much tougher.

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