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Doula, midwife programs will expand to address city health-care inequities

BY LEAH FOREMAN
Posted 4/1/22

As a German-trained midwife with 22 years of experience, Stephanie Heintzeler has experienced firsthand the inherent differences in maternal healthcare as it is practiced here and in other countries.

“In Germany and other European countries by law, the midwife has to deliver the baby, not the obstetrician—[the] obstetrician has to call in a midwife, they are not allowed to deliver. So the midwife has to deliver the baby and our numbers are much, much better,” said Heintzeler, who founded The New York Baby, a doula and midwife organization. “The outcome in terms of maternity and mortality and morbidity is much, much better in all over Europe versus the United States.” 

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