Diary notes:
  Delivered this lovely baby boy to an 18-year-old Hre woman this morning. 
She had been in labor about ten hours before her family brought her to our camp dispensary.  
She was exhausted.  I examined her as best I could (the husband stood there the whole time 
which meant no internal examination for that would have seriously offended the Hre), and talked to her.  
After five more hours, I went to bed, leaving my senior Hre medic in charge.  
At 4 a.m. , he woke me and I rushed out.  By the time I arrived, a six-pound baby was crying between her legs.  
Everyone was OK.  I cut the cord and then found one reason for the lengthy birth.  She was too small.  
I put in more than a half-dozen stitches.  The relatives all crowded in and congratulated the father at great length, 
who now held the baby.  It was their custom that the father was the one to be slapped on the back.  
I held her hand and told her she had done a wonderful job and that her baby was quite handsome.



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