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Vanessa Brooks

Vanessa Brooks is the mother of three boys—Asha, 10, Bonny, 9, and Lux, 5—and partner of steadfast and beautiful Marca. She enjoys her small holding in southern Spain, homeschooling the kids and growing vegetables. She has delivered 62 babes as a lay midwife, and runs the Da-a-Luz project.

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I Was Blessed: A Lay Midwife’s Story

by | March 1, 2006

Vanessa Brooks tells of what led her to start her birth center Da-a-Luz and shares the evolving realization of her dream for pregnant women in Spain.

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