After preparing their public health presentations – including hand-sewn model pelvises, breasts and amniotic sacs – the students from CASA midwifery school boarded a run-down bus, ate American cheese and hot pepper sandwiches, and rode 32 hours from their school in San Miguel de Allende to the small city of José Maria Morelos in the Southern state of Quintana Roo. There all 40 students slept on the floor of a classroom at the Universidad Intercultural Maya and gave presentations to local traditional Mayan midwives about prenatal resuscitation, post-partum hemorrhage and other topics. The traditional midwives, who had learned from relatives and practiced for many years, taught the students about home births in hammocks, herbal medicines, and their own approaches to obstetric emergencies and prenatal care.
Next post: homestays with traditional midwives.
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I love that these are black and white. It helps to accentuate peoples’ faces, and draws us in to the moments captured here. And that photo of the bus – it’s like a character in this whole story!
Thank you! It’s exciting to be working in black and white again. And that bus, that bus. At one point I surrendered to it and decided it was probably my home, where I would live on Chipotle ramen and lemony peanuts forever…
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