Benigna Condori, who is pregnant, sits on a bed with her son at a maternity shelter in Huancarani, on the outskirts of Cuzco, March 23, 2008. Some maternity hospitals in Peru offer shelter to women and their families, who live further away, weeks before the women deliver their babies.
Maruja Caira, 35, delivers her baby via a vertical birth in the Belenpampa maternity center in Cuzco March 22, 2008. Due to the preference of some Andean and Amazon women to give birth in a vertical position, several Peruvian hospitals are offering this option under healthy and professional conditions to avoid home births, reduce mortality rates of women and babies and respect women's traditions. Picture taken March 22, 2008.
Maruja Caira, 35, delivers her baby via a vertical birth in the Belenpampa maternity center in Cuzco March 22, 2008. Due to the preference of some Andean and Amazon women to give birth in a vertical position, several Peruvian hospitals are offering this option under healthy and professional conditions to avoid home births, reduce mortality rates of women and babies and respect women's traditions. Picture taken March 22, 2008.
Araceli Escalante looks at her baby, which was delivered through a vertical birth, in Belenpampa maternity center in Cuzco March 23, 2008. Due to the preference of some Andean and Amazon women to give birth in a vertical position, several Peruvian hospitals are offering this option under healthy and professional conditions to avoid home births, reduce mortality rates of women and babies and respect women's traditions.
Maruja Caira, 35, delivers her baby via a vertical birth in the Belenpampa maternity center in Cuzco March 22, 2008. Due to the preference of some Andean and Amazon women to give birth in a vertical position, several Peruvian hospitals are offering this option under healthy and professional conditions to avoid home births, reduce mortality rates of women and babies and respect women's traditions. Picture taken March 22, 2008.
Medical personnel prepare to cut the umbilical cord after Maruja Caira's baby was delivered via a vertical birth in the Belenpampa maternity center in Cuzco March 22, 2008. Due to the preference of some Andean and Amazon women to give birth in a vertical position, several Peruvian hospitals are offering this option under healthy and professional conditions to avoid home births, reduce mortality rates of women and babies and respect women's traditions. Picture taken March 22, 2008.
Araceli Escalante's newborn baby is checked by a nurse after she delivered it via a vertical birth in the Belenpampa maternity center in Cuzco March 23, 2008. Due to the preference of some Andean and Amazon women to give birth in a vertical position, several Peruvian hospitals are offering this option under healthy and professional conditions to avoid home births, reduce mortality rates of women and babies and respect women's traditions.
Araceli Escalante's newborn baby cries while being checked at the Belenpampa maternity center in Cuzco March 23, 2008. Due to the preference of some Andean and Amazon women to give birth in a vertical position, several Peruvian hospitals are offering this option under healthy and professional conditions to avoid home births, reduce mortality rates of women and babies and respect women's traditions.
Maruja Caira breastfeeds her newborn baby after delivering it via a vertical birth in the Belenpampa maternity center in Cuzco March 22, 2008. Due to the preference of some Andean and Amazon women to give birth in a vertical position, several Peruvian hospitals are offering this option under healthy and professional conditions to avoid home births, reduce mortality rates of women and babies and respect women's traditions.
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