Adeline Favre from Val d’Anniviers in southern Switzerland attended over 8,000 births from 1928. The story of her life is also the history of her home canton of Valais in the 20th century. The fact that Adeline survived her own birth was anything but a matter of course. When her mother gave birth to her in May 1908, having... read full story
"From a practical point of view, doctors understood much less about childbirth than the midwife,"