With the closing of Bryn Mawr’s Lifecycle Wellness and Birth Center, women have lost an important maternity option.

With Lifecycle closing, what is the future of maternity care in Philadelphia? / Photograph by Pavel Danilyuk

Collingswood resident Caitlin Corkery is a self-described “birth nerd.”

She’d grown up in the ’90s and 2000s, when women’s bodies were relentlessly shamed by tabloids. When she began learning about the birth process, though, she recalls it being “the first time hearing about how powerful women’s bodies could be.”

In her free time, she took a doula course to learn more about the practice of those who are trained to provide guidance and support to a pregnant woman during labor. So in 2020, as she prepared to welcome her first child, she thought hard about the kind of

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