Ann Van Haver
MSF midwife activity manager

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One story that touched me a lot,

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is a woman who arrived
[at the maternity],

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she was 17 years old,
pregnant, full term.

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So at the end of her pregnancy, in labor.

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But this woman had
a psychiatric condition.

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She was unresponsive,
she was not moving and not talking.

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We cannot just do a normal delivery.

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She had no muscles left,
she had not been eating a lot.

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So we decided to do
a caesarean section

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with her agreement and her family’s.

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The baby came out,
the baby was healthy.

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We had her mother staying next to her

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and we kept her in the hospital
for three weeks.

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This woman was married very young
and in her family-in-law,

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she wasn't treated right.

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She didn't feel safe there.

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And she had a very,
very strong reaction to that.

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And then she was shipped back
to her own family.

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And we kept in touch with this family

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because we provided them
with the milk for the next months.

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And this woman is going
back to school,

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is capable of taking care of
her own child.

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And what I saw was a team of women

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in the maternity,
who work there,

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who gave their all, their entire heart.

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They were washing her hair,
sitting with her, massaging her.

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They were being so friendly,
everybody, to create an environment

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in which she could come back
to the world of social life.

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And, that's really, really nice.