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Mamie Sesay, 35, lies in bed with her newborn child as she recovers from surgery that saved her life at the Pujehun Government hospital in Pujehun, Sierra Leone on Friday March 19, 2010. After Mamie had given birth at a health center located 12 miles away, the nurse in charge struggled for two hours to extract the woman's placenta, that had remained blocked. She then called an ambulance that took six hours to get Mamie back to the hospital where she finally got treated. Medical staff said saving her was a miracle - she had been bleeding for 8 hours. This was Mamie's 10th pregnancy, four of which resulted in the death of the child. Her first child is 18 years old...

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Mamie Sesay, 35, lies in bed with her newborn child as she recovers from surgery that saved her life at the Pujehun Government hospital in Pujehun, Sierra Leone on Friday March 19, 2010. After Mamie had given birth at a health center located 12 miles away, the nurse in charge struggled for two hours to extract the woman's placenta, that had remained blocked. She then called an ambulance that took six hours to get Mamie back to the hospital where she finally got treated. Medical staff said saving her was a miracle - she had been bleeding for 8 hours. This was Mamie's 10th pregnancy, four of which resulted in the death of the child. Her first child is 18 years old...