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Sages-Femmes Haiti

Sages-Femmes, this is what they call midwives in Haiti. For some time, midwifery has been evolving in Haiti. It is a medical profession with defined competence that consists of accompanying the pregnant woman before, during and after childbirth.

PHOTO: 22-year-old Haitian mother Doresca Camicile gave birth to Quadruplets

PHOTO: 22-year-old Haitian mother Doresca Camicile gave birth to Quadruplets

Here is a photo of 22-year-old Haitian mother Doresca Camicile, a resident of Twama, a locality in Fonds-Verrettes Haiti, who gave birth to four babies (quadruplets) at a hospital in Fonds-Parisien Haiti.

The woman in white is midwife (sage-femme) Edeline La Paix who assisted her during childbirth.

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Sages-Femmes Haiti - Additional information:

These sages-femmes women occupy an important place in society, yet these professionals are not treated as such. We do not appreciate their dedication to the cause of health. (lenational.org)

Haiti's ministry of health now has a national institute for midwifery education, l'Institut national supérieur de formation de sages-femmes (INSFSF) which is slowly tuning midwifery in Haiti into a respectable profession.