Scrapbook of the Midwifery Today Costa Rica Conference
“Birth without Borders”

San Jose, Costa Rica
23–27 May 2007

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Planning Trip Photos

Marie with her husband Luis and Jan. Luis' passion is working on sustainable agriculture, like ours is sustainable birth.

Handpainted carts are an old handicraft of Costa Rica, shown with Nidia, Jan, Marie and Eneyda on their way to visit traditional midwives.

Active volcano Arenal. We spent the evening watching her create new ground as she erupted and glowed. See more photos of Arenal erupting.

Uva Meiner doing a prenatal home visit.

Eneyda at Christine Zingrich Gazdag's house on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica; Christine will be doing a workshop on kinesiology.

This photo represents the seed of the idea for "Birth Without Borders" conference in San José, Costa Rica. Rebecca Turecky, Vanessa Calderon and Salem Hamilton were all Costa Ricans who, along with Jan Tritten, helped bring the idea to fruition. The seed was born and watered at the CIMS meeting in Boston in 2006.