Ilda knows how to have her baby safely!

This past June, Jungle Mamas ran one of its Safe Birth and Family Health workshops in the community of Wampuik, Ecuador. This last workshop was considered one of the most successful ones in the history of the Jungle Mamas workshops; considering that over 40 women attended, this group was one of the most active and participating groups they have ever had. Melida had the pleasure of being one of them.

In each workshop, Jungle Mamas employees teach about the use of a safe birth kit. Each birth kit contains maternal postpartum pads, cotton diapers to measure the amount of bleeding once the baby is born, strings to tie and cut the umbilical cord, two pairs of sanitary gloves, hand soap, a sterile sheet to measure the bleeding and maintain the space clean, a candle for night births, a traditional scarf to wrap the baby, and baby clothes for the first months.

Ilda is about to have a baby in a few months and she was worried about giving birth. It has been custom for many years for women from her community, the Achuar people living in the jungles of Ecuador, to give birth by themselves in the rainforest with absolutely no assistance. This led to them bleeding out many times. Thanks to the safe birth kit that Jungle Mamas is implementing in the workshops, which has materials to solve these worries, many women such as Ilda are far safer and healthier when it comes to giving birth. Ilda is now much less anxious about the coming months. Thank you, Hardeep, for donating to this worthy cause!