Midwives for Haiti: Saving Lives One Mother and Child at a Time

Erin Curtiss is a midwife in Seattle. Haiti has a desperate for midwives. Women in Haiti are fifty times more likely to die during childbirth than women in America. Erin volunteered to go to Haiti to lend a hand. She was unprepared for what she discovered. Read her story on my Living in the Heartland blog.

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