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An unexplored element within the literature the consideration of a patient's environment. This work seeks to understand the importance of this element in a patient's care and reproductive experience.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Semistructured interviews (60\u201075 minutes) of 5 Black midwives across the continental United States were conducted to answer the research question\n                      <jats:italic>How do considerations of the environment shape Black midwives\u2019 care praxis?<\/jats:italic>\n                      Participants held a variety of licensing designations; 3 were certified nurse\u2010midwives, 1 was a certified midwife, and 1 was originally unlicensed but later became a certified professional midwife. Abductive analysis was used, and multiple rounds of coding were conducted to produce themes.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Three general categorizations of environment emerged: (1) natural or climatic environment, (2) social environment, and (3) caregiving environment. Environmental consideration informs\n                      <jats:italic>anticipatory guidance<\/jats:italic>\n                      , or experiences witnessed and participated in that inform how midwives will advise a future patient. This anticipatory guidance demonstrates how Black midwives draw on their embodied knowledge of past experiences to inform and personalize their care for current and future patients.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Black midwives consider the environment in a multiplicity of ways to inform their care and how it may impact a pregnancy. Awareness of both the natural and social environment of a patient informs the midwives on relevant aspects of the patient's history and steers the Black midwives\u2019 anticipatory guidance, which can go beyond just one patient. Overall, the consideration of the environment for Black midwives does not necessarily change the quality or type of care they administer, but instead informs how to approach care so that they can provide a more personalized experience for patients.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/jmwh.70090","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,5]],"date-time":"2026-02-05T10:16:56Z","timestamp":1770286616000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The Consideration of Environment in Black Midwifery Care Practices"],"prefix":"10.1111","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-8281-660X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bryttani","family":"Wooten","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography and Environment University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  Chapel Hill North Carolina"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_8_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/soc4.12867"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/ajes.12173"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s10995\u2010021\u201003224\u20101"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/jmwh.13614"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.14325\/mississippi\/9781496818911.001.0001","volume-title":"Delivered by Midwives: African American Midwifery in the Twentieth\u2010Century South","author":"Luke JM","year":"2018"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4159\/9780674037205"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_8_1","first-page":"303","volume-title":"Herausforderung Solidarit\u00e4t: Konzepte \u2013 Kontroversen \u2013 Perspektiven","author":"Gibson HA","year":"2024"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_9_1","volume-title":"Motherwit, an Alabama Midwife's Story","author":"Logan OL","year":"1989"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_10_1","volume-title":"Safe in a Midwife's Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South","author":"Holmes LJ","year":"2023"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_11_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/jmwh.13021"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_12_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/jmwh.12750"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_13_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jmwh.2009.01.002"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_14_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0192523"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_15_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/birt.12308"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_16_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/3090205"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_17_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/2158244017752220"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_18_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/soc4.12829"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_19_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/1090198111418634"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_20_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1525\/9780520963207"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_21_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cppeds.2021.101028"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_22_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"138","DOI":"10.4337\/9781803923796.00011","volume-title":"Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice","author":"Albertyn C","year":"2023"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_23_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/wcc.860"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_24_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/9781119845379.ch15"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_25_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.5040\/9781350226005","volume-title":"Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life beyond the Human","author":"Escobar A","year":"2024"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_26_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/1466138108099586"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_27_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jogn.2025.03.004"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_28_1","volume-title":"Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research","author":"Small ML","year":"2022"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_29_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0735275112457914"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_30_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/14780887.2020.1780357"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_31_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.7208\/chicago\/9780226206868.001.0001"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_32_1","unstructured":"Federal Writers\u2019 Project Papers 1936\u20101940. 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