In the Peruvian rainforest, where the nearest clinic can usually only be reached by boat, childbirth still often ends in death. One woman is no longer willing to accept this.
Everything went well with her third child, after her first was stillborn at seven months and her second pregnancy also ended in a miscarriage. Now Jhoana German is sitting on the terrace of her wooden hut in Nuevo Horizonte, a village of seven huts in northern Peru, and is brushing a dark lock of hair from the sleeping baby’s forehead in her lap. Colorful birds call out in confusion, three barking dogs chase each other to the banks of the Putumayo, the river that borders Colombia. It has been five days since her son was born. The boy is healthy, but she barely survived.
Source: Stern
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