What Maternal Health Care Can Do To Prevent Family Separations
In 2021, when now-32-yearold Natalie Van Houten took her first job as a certified nurse midwife in Wolf Point and Poplar, the two largest towns on the Fort Peck Reservation, she found some challenges she hadn’t anticipated.
For one thing, resources and community support for pregnant patients and new parents are hard to find in rural northeast Montana. And she sees more high-risk pregnancies