Choices Birthing Center hosts Black Maternal Health Week events
Mothers LaDawna Jones (left) and Troyisha Jones hold their newborn baby Mylle Jones at Choices - Memphis Center for Reproductive Health on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Black women make up the majority of patients at Choices’ freestanding birthing center in Midtown, whose midwifery practice has been delivering babies since 2017.
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Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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