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Article: Continuity, change and collaboration in midwifery: from Japan, memories of a midwife at 95 years of age; and from India, news of a new project to improve midwifery education and care for safe motherhood.
- Article from:
- International Midwifery
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Yukino Abo, aged 95, writes:
'I remember the event that made me want to become a midwife. I was six, and hadn't even started elementary school. The wife of our clan's eldest son had gone into labour, and my mother was summoned in the middle of the night to help boil water. Back then, all babies in Japan were born at home, and an important duty. of women was preparing the bath for the newborn. I went with my mother and got a shock when I saw the young wife suffering. They had her in a sling, suspended from the ceiling. It looked like a very painful position. It made me cry, but all my mother had to say was, "I told you not to come, didn't I?"
'It so ...