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Students witness the mock birth. |  |
Delivery of the placenta | |
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Head is out! Midwife checks the infant's neck to make sure there is no cord wrapped around. |  |
Midwife checks the placenta to make sure all parts are there, and none left inside. | |
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After delivery, the umbilical cord is tied in two places with clean string after it stops pulsing. Here a clean, sterile blade is used to cut the cord. One woman in the class had told us that she gave birth alone and could only find a rock on the ground to pound the cord in two. Infection is a common killer. |
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Midwife massages the uterus to prevent uterine hemorrhage. Uterine hemorrhage is the #1 cause of maternal death in the world and in Tibet. It only takes 1-3 hours for a woman to die from hemorrhage. From Gargon there is neither enough time nor the means to get to a hospital. |