MaryLou Carr CNM, Director of the Cambridge Birth Center, talks about empowering midwives could help women

Statistics about giving birth in the U.S. are not promising. Several other wealthy countries have lower rates of both maternal and infant mortality than the U.S. and maternal complications from birth have doubled in the past 20 years.

But a new study, from the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE, says that integrating midwifes into the health care system might help.