AAAS Kavli Winners Take Another Look at Dutch Birth Care
By Zvezdana Vukojevic and Jop de Vrieze
Birth care became our professional specialty out of a tragic necessity. In August 2015, our first son Mikki died in Zvezdana’s womb and was stillborn after 34 weeks of pregnancy. We were left devastated, empty handed and with lots of questions. What started off as a private quest of a grieving couple, ended up as an investigative journalism project that we were absorbed by for eight months - the same duration as the ill-fated pregnancy.
