how did she do that?

We all did a double take when Mama E showed up at noon yesterday holding a tiny blanket-wrapped baby. Just the afternoon before she had been sitting in the pediatric waiting room - with a still very pregnant belly - calmly waiting for her one-year-old daughter to see the pediatrician. Apparently in the course of the subsequent 18 hours she started active labor, gave birth, cleaned herself up and made her way to our clinic with the newborn alone on public transport. Wow. I have friends back home with impressive birth stories but some of these Haitian moms bring it to an entirely different level.