birth attendants

Given that she was simulating childbirth on a couch in a carpeted hallway off a hotel lobby right after breakfast, Paulina Quinones Gonzalez decided to keep it simple.

No umbilical cord wrapped around the baby's neck, no obstructed labor, no shrieking and flailing.

(World Vision) A new report warns basic life-saving solutions such as hygiene, adequate nutrition, bed nets and skilled birth attendants "not a priority" for too many leaders.

"Politics, not poverty, is what is killing these children," the NGO's leader says. Much health funding is spent in ways that fail to have greatest impact for saving children and mothers; changing that could save as many as six million a year.