A woman is suffering receiving injection for local anesthesia because she needs some sutures after delivering

Midwife checking foetal heartbeat

Labour ward is just a room where women deliver one next to the other, without even any folding screen, so they can’t have any privacy

Young mother hug her newborn after a painful labor and delivery

Woman delivering in theatre with a caesarean

A woman in postnatal ward, after delivering, lying in bed in serious condition: she is receiving medical treatment, oxygen, and blood transfusion

TBA assisting a young woman delivering, in a poor labour ward in TBA’s home

Because of lack of beds, pregnants have to sleep on the floor in the anti-natal ward, waiting time to deliver

A newborn doesn’t breath after childbirth and a nurse lies him on a table under the heat of a bulb to start resuscitate him with artificial respiration

A young girl with her first newborn, sitting on her grandmother bed

Both mother and her newborn resting just few hours after deliver

Alice is a TBA, traditional birth attendant, who lives in southern Uganda, but she visits and assists pregnant women, arriving from all over the country, who prefer to deliver at home rather than using public health facilities

A young woman in labour pain crying is almost ready to deliver her first child

A nurse using a razor blade to remove sutures from belly of a woman who had a caesarean

A woman still lying on operating table after a caesarean, when they start to clean the operating room

A woman in post-natal ward after a c-section

A woman in labour ward sufferring during labor is almost ready to deliver

A young woman suffers during labor for her first baby; traditional birth attendant tries to encourage and assist her not only physically but also from a psychological point of view

Young mother has to work, taking care of house and family duties, as digging in the garden. Kabale Uganda