Listen now (36 mins) | Listen Now For decades the US has experienced the highest infant mortality rate of high income countries. The US also ranks poorly on other birth outcomes such as pre-term births, low birth weight and Caesarean sections. Infant mortality rates for non-hispanic blacks is twice that of the national average. In sum, about 25,000 infants die each year in the United States. During this 37 minute interview Dr. Lubic explains briefly nurse midwifery and its peri-natal goals, she discusses at some length the gradual acceptance of nurse midwives from the 1930s through the 1960s, the Family Health and Birth Center's "care in a social context" and birth outcomes its achieved, i.e., a 66% reduction in both pre-term births and Caesarean sections and a 75% reduction in low birth weights.