Victoria Ferrell Ortiz found out she was pregnant during the summer of 2017. The Dallas resident was finishing up an AmeriCorps job with a local nonprofit, which offered her a small living stipend but no health coverage. She applied for Medicaid so she could be insured during the pregnancy.
"It was a time of a lot of learning, turnaround and pivoting for me, because we weren't necessarily expecting that kind of life change," she says.
