Madame Nono’s Baby Is Healthy

Our Human Rights monitors have been monitoring one pregnant women in the community, Madame Nono, for several weeks as the due date for her baby approached. When the day came, Children of the Border had a truck driver ready and paid to drive her to the hospital for delivery.

Still, we arrived a little too late, and Mme. Nono gave birth as we tried to carry her to the car. We didn’t have the facilities to cut the umbilical cord from the placenta (not that anybody in the community has the training for that procedure), so we brought her to the hospital as she was. The baby was fine and Mme. Nono was discharged.

The baby is a boy, and Mme. Nono feeds him constantly.  You can see how healthy he looks in this photograph.

Mme. Nono and her healthy baby.