MOMS' Programs:  Senegal
West African mother
and daughter
In Mboro, Nov 2005
Midwives on Missions of Service
African Portrait
Senegalese woman
painted by Will Storm
We spent three weeks in Mboro, Senegal, in November of 2005.  Read an article
published in Midwifery Today.  (This is in PDF format, so you need Acrobat Reader.)

MOMS worked with the African Birth Collective on this trip.  
Hands and knees is a common position for labor and birth when women are "allowed
to" choose, without pressure from caregivers.  This mother and child came through in
good health.
At right, Trish Ross is chatting with a
newborn during a neonatal exam.

This girl and her twin brother were delivered
normally (no induction, no surgery) at full
term, with no problem.  One was head down,
and the other was breech.  The smaller twin,
this little girl, weighed about 5 pounds while
her brother weighed about 5 1/2 pounds.  

Not long after this picture was taken, the
mother and her family walked several miles  
through the bush to their home.
At right, Astrid
Grove (Shauna
Dillard) supports
and comforts a
laboring mother.  

ShaUna also wrote
an article for
Midwifery Today
about this trip.  
Senegalese Grandma
Showing off the child
born with the American
midwives