I was just like, well, whatever happens is supposed to happen.

You know, we thought about like, what if we go in the labor on the road?

We packed a bag.

You know, he packed a delivery bag.

Yeah, yeah, three bags of like pads and stuff in cases.

You know, I go in the labor in the car, just all the supplies that we would need.

That was the best we could do was to like try to prepare to have a baby on the road.

This season on needle, we head home to rural America.

We're passing the mic to black families to hear all about their journeys to parenthood and their own words.

And nothing is off limits.

From foster care and sperm donors.

And so we're sitting in his parking line, he goes, who's the dad?

And I was like, I used a donor.

And he's like, a what? And I was like, a donor, dad's sperm donor.

He's like, oh my goodness.

To catching babies at home.

I felt more pride than just the excitement and the amazement.

I felt a whole lot of pride because not only had I been allowed to do it again and I had

successfully done it again, but the whole world

saw me this time. Like, there's no more ball of way to be a birth partner. We'll also hear

from those working to expand access to care for rural families all over. So in 2004, it was about

56% of rural counties had hospital-based obstetric care. And over the next

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