Our Stories

Pregnancy is a beautiful experience, and it can be full of questions for mothers and fathers to be. With so much to consider in preparation for this new life, the question of where to birth is top of mind for many expectant parents. In the United States today, 98.4...

Women of Haiti carry the past, the present, and the future with beauty, laughter, strength, and tears. It’s not easy. There are many challenges, like the economy, food instability, gas shortages, domestic and sexual abuse, political unrest, gang violence, and the...

She cried throughout her entire labor. She gave birth to a healthy baby. She cried more. She cried more and more for an uncertain future. We are thankful for a safe birth. We acknowledge her pain experienced. At the same time we are very sad for this country...

"I hide behind the lace curtain in the doorway to stay out of the way. She sees me and smiles. The small house on the hillside is hot and filled with the bodies of pregnant women waiting to see their midwives. Sweat rolls down my face. I watch her listen to her...

Did you know that we have an online store with MamaBaby Haiti merchandise? Spread the word! And get your t-shirt, sweatshirt and mug now! VISIT OUR ONLINE STORE

We celebrate all fathers in the month of June, here in the US on June 20th and in Haiti June 27th. With love and support, all these babies were born and this is MamaBaby Haiti. Thank you for making this possible for our fathers and their families. D O N A T E

Mobile clinics are very important at MamaBaby Haiti.Every week we travel to remote locations to provide care for women who otherwise would get none. One of the mountain villages is a 5-hour walk from MamaBaby that women make when in labor. We go by boat and hike 90...

As you may know, we are transitioning from our current location in Cap-Haitien to our own land next door. We are in the process of building our new bigger birth center and have started fundraising for phase two.We need $100,000 to continue building! Will you help us...

MamaBaby Haiti was honored to have Pascale Belony, Miss Supranational Haiti, with us for a beautiful and well supported labor and birth. Pascale is a nurse as well as title holder who fights against injustice and health disparities. We are so happy to have Pascale as...

We have an urgent request! Once again we have a number of women and babies trapped behind the hospital gates, sleeping on cardboard on the floor outside the hospital.With your support, we have been able to release several women and babies in the past. This week we...

This year we would like to honor all of the midwives working so hard through a global pandemic and the many impacts … from sickness, lack of supplies, food shortages and global inflation, we know it’s been a hard year. “Follow the data, invest in midwives" – that’s...

If you have volunteered at MamaBaby you most likely know these three inspiring people. Every day we are so grateful to have such an amazing team in Haiti.Volunteers are priceless!  We simply cannot attach value to the time and effort that they spend helping MamaBaby...

Bòn fèt, Cameron! Today we celebrate his second birthday. We are all so grateful to experience his joy for life everyday. He is truly a miracle.Many of you know baby Cameron’s story. For those of you that don't know .... Baby Cameron was just two weeks old when he was...

We met her in the village. She walked for hours through the mountains in flip flops in labor to meet us. She was very pregnant at almost 42 weeks gestation. After a very long labor including a transport she birthed a beautiful and healthy baby. We paid her hospital...

Did you know you can support MamaBaby Haiti by making your Amazon purchases via Amazon Smile?! If you have not already, put us down as the charity you support. It's a simple way to GIVE to our mamas and babies while purchasing the things you need! *NOTE: We are...

This is Patricia Couch, Vice President of MamaBaby International.  I’d like to speak to you about an urgent issue that is near and dear to my heart.  Over the years MamaBaby Haiti has gotten more involved in many deep issues that arise for mothers and babies...

Maternal, neonatal and infant mortality is a very important concern globally. As we continue on with this much-needed work in Haiti, it's important to remember that midwives make a difference. DONATE MamaBaby mobile clinics make a difference! We go to this remote...

I know this isn’t what we usually fundraise for, but there is something close to my heart, personally, that I’d love to share with you about a remote village in the mountains of Haiti called Port Français that needs water.I remember the first time Carmelle and I hiked...

It is a warm and wonderful place filled with hope, smiles, and laughter. That doesn’t mean it can’t also be hard. At MamaBaby Haiti, the midwives listen and learn about the lives of the women that come to us for care. We try to provide the best care for each...

We watch as lives change and babies grow. MamaBaby Haiti is all about community and connection. Each Monday we see up to 70 new pregnant people for FREE prenatal care. This is one of the many ways that MamaBaby Haiti continues to help reduce the maternal and neonatal...

MamaBaby Haiti birth centers are found in two locations. Our birth center in Cap-Haitien in the Northern Department of Haiti has been open since 2010, sees hundreds of women each week and attends over a hundred births a month. Our second and newest birth center in...

January 22nd, 2021 marked the 10 year anniversary since the first baby was born in the care of MamaBaby Haiti. Thank you for all of your support over the years. We couldn’t have done it without you. We are working hard on construction of our new birth center &...

It’s also what helps women go into labor and keeps contractions coming until baby comes out. I dare you to not get an oxytocin rush when you watch this beautiful story about a MamaBaby Haiti midwife doing life saving work! It is a story of tragedy turned to...

That is how we felt when we opened MamaBaby Haiti in 2010.  That is how we feel again in 2020 when we raised enough money to buy the land next door to our RENTED birth center in Cap Haitien, Haiti. The birth center that has served us well for years… The birth...

Denis holds her granddaughter, Leisha, and tells me how she sold her very own clothing to put her other daughter, Loveny, through nursing school so that women would not die in childbirth. Denis laughs and smiles as we talk about how her daughter Loveny is attending...

We drove over the green hill in the late afternoon to the most beautiful vision. Valleys and mountains covered in vibrant tropical colors of green, and a new little MamaBaby Haiti birth center nestled amidst the hills.  Two hundred people gathered singing to...

The rapping at the door kept happening through the night and the women just kept coming one after another.  By the time the night was over 12 babies were born in 12 hours. This is not typical at MamaBaby Haiti.  On an average night we have two,...

I’m sitting here crying. Today midwife Carmelle called us crying because she went to the Haiti hospital and took pictures of this.   These women and their newborn babies are sleeping outside, on the ground with nothing more than cardboard mats because they...

Day Seven In Haiti Part One: Carrie, Carmelle and I walk into Shada and a little boy recognizes me and yells and runs to me to give me a welcoming hug. It is Anderson! He is the little boy who was covered in staph and scabies in January. His skin is clear and...

Day Five in Haiti:I turn my body away from the pushing crowd and face the rusty tin wall to cry. The lump grows in my throat and I want to sob, but I fight it, turn around and fill the last three medicine cups with our treatment for scabies and staph: neem oil,...

Day six in haiti:The day started with two mom’s laboring in the birth room and 40 women holding their babies and singing together in beautiful morning song at MamaBaby Haiti.  We created a circle of moms and dads with babies three months and younger, pulling them...

Day Four in Haiti:Due to gas shortages we walked EVERYWHERE. I feel like I walked 10 miles today. This is what we did: Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - and I bore my testimony in Haitian Kreyol to the congregation, which I am sure was amusing, but...

Day Three in Haiti: We had an intense birth this morning and took care of many urgent birth center needs before we left on an outing. (I will write the stories later... still processing).  Saturday is the day we play. It’s about unity and coming together as...

Day Two in Haiti: After a boat drive, we hiked for over an hour through the jungle up steep trails. We arrived at the foot of the mountain village where they have built a small little clinic room for us out of stilts with a wood plank floor and a metal tin roof...

Day one in Haiti. I lay here on the roof in my tent listening to the rain and my heart feels very full. I am grateful for the team that has come with me and is special to me in many ways.  Sofia Autumn Zulu Shepherd is a baby that I caught many years ago and...

    Help us meet our $100,000 fundraising goal on November 27th, 2018 #GivingTuesday Want to join us in supporting a good cause? This #GivingTuesday We're raising money for Mama Baby International (MamaBaby Haiti) and your...

There are so many things going on that we just had to share. Now more than ever we need your support.  We have many things happening here. Today, October 3rd, for example: Three babies born last night in the wee with midwives Gennie, Erlyne and Carmelle, two girls and...

I would like to share with you my graduation speech from our very first gradation and MamaBaby Haiti. I hope that you can feel it the way I felt it as you read along. Hello to everyone and welcome to our first MamaBaby Haiti graduation. We are so happy that you could...