Melissa Lewis

1 month ago | motherjones.com | Hannah Levintova |Melissa Lewis

Sungida Rashid had no intention of taking an Uber to the birth of her first child. She’d never been one to take the easy route, and besides, she wanted to get things moving—and walking seemed the best way to do it. So on an overcast Sunday in October 2023, Sungida and her husband, Nabil Haque, set out from their Boston apartment to St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, the local hospital where Sungida, nine months pregnant, was scheduled to be induced.