she delivered and then after delivery. brief he did not even cry he had to resuscitate that bird bit by bit after to me if it was cool for the baby had died. i could feel the prevent a woman had gone through it's really touched me. when a baby dies at birth the village women take it for immediate burial. traditionally men have taken no part in the birth or death of babies. babies are even more vulnerable than their mothers at birth globally over three million babies are born dead and a further two million died in their first and only day of life but even after that

and newborns life remains precarious margaret bandas last baby died within a week of being. the little one by year when we. wanted to so bad the weather was. you never in doubt heard him will remember that it was you who put them over your one of them learn madame's the end i remember. going to do you know you will last and when i'm to feel when one was home with. them recently and goldwasser you know with. the know what i'm going to pull. away when the only tough although sleep tonight. if pregnant woman. i had it to mean she's on the me to life and death so the mother could die or the bill so could die they would not name the baby

bentley they called for itself because to them the gun is that they all survived. so they have to be sure that this will be indeed has stopped by and for them when the cord falls off is a sign that this baby chances of survival be tacky that's when they would name the big. name of the man we sat on the very mean there isn't. any good. in the. young who never would in another the job we normally don't. know them out of the

don't know what that word when i'm on. one hundred new widgets in a magazine out of lida do. daddy it was a man i'll magazine memo that my now cut off. traditional. we're the ones who are conducting daily varies in the community that one time the government supported them but then after. they discovered that most of the mothers were dying from the infection they were dying from breathing they were dying from high blood pressure which had to addition with that into who did not manage to embrace. an experiment to change traditional birth attendants failed and the deaths continued their reason lay in long distances between villages and health facilities poor roads little transport and few ambulances make it impossible to get birthing

mothers to skilled care in imagines he's so in order to discourage home the government banned the ancient institution of traditional birth attendants. how to put. them with him on a war do. a job that a woman kunda my kind unchain your mother and i may kind of your day job will as i will oh my way would i do a one of a college jani moonglow me kinder as if it was you that. was. my god am. i not or do we give our and the lab it that killing us in on it are clearly very famous when you got a visit i won't want to will die i'm a mini well made anice i am legally a disaster oh i just doubt the harmonies all. add up with a town in louisiana and one needed the same one i did it and the jam and an oh my

oh my dentist the oh my hours are great any woman. would die in it would drain it would you need to be on what he got you for a woman that i'm with somebody and he is all i get when of them it is a in unary. the the the. the. the the. my love is first ban on traditional birth attendants was opposed by traditionalists and overturned but when joyce banda became president in twenty twelve she reimposed it . the president has ordered that women should only deliver with skilled help in clinics and hospitals. today she's opening a waiting home for pregnant mothers donated by an international celebrity. when i

began to wonder what was happening several women i decided that it would be the best thing i could do is to empower them it was thousands of women. this going to do if i didn't hear because just ponder intervened. and when i was given the. i went to the hospital and the doctor says we have to induce we have to induce all the baby i didn't know when that will bridge wish you were all course up you can do the baby. finally induced and i thought it was over and then half an hour later i just collapsed i was bleeding to death. i got out of that hospital and i said why do they beat you missed me pip's. president banda is on a mission to protect and empower women in malawi yet in a strategic move she selected a man chief quite amy to lead her initiative on safe motherhood and promoted him to

see me achieve. my mother experienced a program. for two days just imagine sure about today that this story you know women she was not it into me i nearly burst into tears. i pledged that if i were never allow in a woman in my village to deliver. in the house of the ana school personnel. i've crossed malawi there are still some dead somewhere but the i'm meeting each and every chief from with this with the south with the north east and the west to measure that or that traditionally does in malawi they know their role in order to save the born and the pregnant women. chief what

amy has the power to engineer change by steering a massive cultural shift and he's using tradition to do it. with all those powers would have been you know given to get shifted by the question of the lunde. i'm using those powers now commit for that you know money device on the way before i arrived at the facility. then i'll turn to. teach. these are now the. warrior as they are now passing one to say no woman should. give you a break. this is a good time for the lady to get involved in some other programs because pregnant women and it's not going to be for city to.

walk about every respect to this type of guns and everybody understands the does quite easily. mean this is one of the. other program in the area. according to our culture preakness and i'm told by the security issues. they are which is in the communities who would want to eat the bad you wouldn't know who exactly did it and if you came to the hospital. it would be such a family so it's a bit of a wait and did that but i guess it shows. introduced

the idea of providing every woman in the pregnancy with a confidant what he calls a secret there are books for our gods are these are the encyclopedias in our culture. that's what i was on my minimum get i knew about it and got in my way you see you see what i'm up to the mama wolf in oregon when did i want him out on the walk you know i don't like to hear about that we get. it about. that. for the first time it was hard for a pregnant woman to put the secret to money budget their women know hugo's hunting for the secret woman this is the reward for the secret women in the inn or the villages this sick recordable they do cordon him over there would have been too

much. when this you know god saved this agreement there was a four of them who make sure that it is reported to the facility under the orthogonal escort of the pregnant woman to the facility. another objective of the safe motherhood initiative is to improve the quality of care at health facilities but change here has not come easily. and that it was. going over my comes to the hospital just from the guest where we and by all means she she has been safe from the she was able to reason to believe that so so it becomes

a record and sadly we are not able to deliver that to this woman. the first day i came to be this was the lady you that day i would remember all along player. a friend of a women and always be painfully. big gray all those women most painful i'll never forget about those b.s.c. . and they loved the one me and women when i believed i would in those people and give it but. while a hospital is one of the biggest maternity hospitals in africa with up to seventy deliveries a day yes doctor is its only full time obstetrician with around hof the nesson cortef field. despite these obstacles has managed to more than hot the number of

men ten. twenty thirteen. she's fully fit the fit. when i mean. in its terms of any kind of improve the quality of the steps of that they give me we are told this by showing on the message received from this facility is that this one thing that has been made that. no we cannot afford to do as long as you are. coming with their babies. and i was not ready to do without. was. like that sometimes it is that it. s.

. and. then you talk of it to require. differend what can they do to make things that need to be the feds. and. we have multi-source is. that all. useful tool for the place to be so when they see it bit by the government themselves you know don't like visit them friend between the two women right away. but. we started on monday saying different things needed to change we could not continue that we were not so all we needed the passion for bravery change within we've been there must be done on this stuff themselves. in the recovery but now

that we're going to be doing good old good you see what i've been up in it with this little boy three years it will be in this lifetime do you need right now this is this it's my love this it could be no you look you my name i was sympathetically so that was. the stuff i did mean more or less the same i was in my company from the beginning know almost i believe what we want to use the. midwife. is one of the team looking up to gladys michael. another to live. although i don't know who was did what i now do well this is. not to go i. know let's. begin. with. that is that we're going to

find out and i. am bound to know what it was. that it was going to do put up systems so that when my mother comes it is not only when a particular person is not around that they'll be able to get attention about kind of subjects and that's how the what grounds come about the clinical or did come about and though the system that was set up so i took two and a mother comes though i definitely have your twenty nine yeah we always know what's going to be delays. people been present for too long to do it of going out for no fee because if you trust bush just that it isn't yet his budget and yes you're right but no it's just that big fellow says ok i want to actually hold most of the unemployed live in the congo and i understand this is soon to sound. gladys's labor is not progressing. but the systems are in place

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a good one at that. i would never say yes. they're going to get it if they ever would do video with what you've already got to go to but i am on that we've got some of that statistics show that in only twelve months doctor and the midwives hospital have managed to cut by more than off both maternal and newborn deaths. now the pressure is on to sustain and enhanced these improvements i. don't think. it is did i want to. see any money to many many journalists.

if. if think if the money if. the fight. i used to believe that before over thirty until they came here that it became the thing. that. you have placed them and putting them together like you know hold of the faithful so you understand it but then he weddle save a life is just too he's too strong he has to lie.

he went over to. i go to a radio station passing the message of. the message or. giving bed. i just. don't get it. i did end up on one by one. would. it be to my label what it is that's one of the ten that we're going. to get i want. i cared about safe motherhood from the radius i headed from chief quite a high as way. to report to you that the figures are going down the. the

message he was telling us is that we have to implement the scene our own abilities so that in order ladies we mean should fall down the main or the social take but for this thing to wake women a head about greece i say wall no it's a very difficult i came to understand god nor the system the ordering beings in or the technology or nowadays because i believe and i still believe that it's serious about those orden days we used to lose our lives do seem to want to me who are new got to go right to our moods and more do are made for the woods behind piety for me to this change was for the people to understand that it is

it is it true that when you go to the hospital the the lady who is but ignorant to deliver properly there do indeed a bad. design by me in this corner you better load the guru the. eat. mother you will then it will give. what is that will. the women's group in implanted village helps pregnant women with their many needs including improving their diet. and the men have joined them. maybe being involved in the issues of safe motherhood is what we see here their women plus the man they are in the garden they are tuning the ground so that they should prompt their vision was i'm to give the first of most of the pregnant woman so of a man in this village also taking budget. because they have the allies and they

know about their men also should be taking part in issues of safe mother who. was it was roughly the same thing. as anything else so a number of traditional taboos used to restrict what a pregnant woman could eat eggs and pork for example were forbidden and anemia was common the first priority date is for the women the pregnant creamy in this room in their home and then the division of those and distribute to the trigger of community and then put it to its. margaret bunda who lost her previous newborn baby at one week has benefited from the god what do you know tugging. on my son because we're going to get a good meal and i will tell you or. you want to know it's going to be. to the god i'm a big i want to. go but we in the good times we should but i also know

what it was and it was again something that is when is it. is when it's going to the us is a little rude. and . i was i was. hospital gladys his labor is still not progressing. would you just sit it out one was done before it was from home my mum will say. and then the full. focus of a would still be a. way of getting. the first

baby was delivered by a traditional birth attendants had home if she'd had the same problem then she and the baby could have died. but even here shortages of vital resources could still put her life at risk you're talking about supplies what drugs a place will be in operations or even ambulances just to take patients to hospital official says the big big macdermid across the board very. sick and move on no one. made their way. over the last digit of the little girl this. one thing you know it's like oh now immediately what should i do what if i did this woman. and this is not planned this did the people you see for even just no blood so this is no this is the this is.

for them i get it on them but they're not there. and maybe our luck or blood. seven out of the nobles guesses. when you have such a gift is there you have a few minutes to save that money and one of the critical things will do that will be black. but in this situation we will let you know don't ask illiterates. to meet with every patient from a female who want. this fish interest to him it could be a month two weeks in which is pretty critical. they telling you that we do not have sufficient blood to be able to sustain the rock that we have a muscle that i'm afraid mother's work will stay on and basically of two money dental when the next drop of blood is that when you will. be very disappointing to go around the whole country or the community to go to the facility

and here to some other drugs or for not found at that facility. in theater gladys is very and is. going smoothly had decision to deliver in hospital may well have saved her life. will be more. on. the. oil but what. could i do love to do is the face of people they don't know but in this business.

so why did you go on and on about it and i mean. i mean i think oh. you know i'm not going to my friends on leno number to this week ok. first of all that's between. they were considered to be something very abnormal so they would do let them stay in the bush maybe for a month where scored but a wi fi interventions on the community might then you're born care people are coming to get eyes that that was being aware and now this baby it's i being cared within the community is. evelyn trained health assistance in low cost care that can dramatically improve the survival of babies after birth.

of a room. in. one with someone in there as man got them from home i mean. almost you know could really if. they gave this. what is this what's of most of the interest none of. it is going to be with you know this explained to you that there's been two different wind is going to jump over this. and. look in determine if we didn't live in. really the mode. to go do traditionally people were putting data on the bike or cord to them it was a bike made seem to help the stump but the.