In order to understand the local realities of health and
development initiatives undertaken to reduce maternal and infant
mortality, the author accompanied rural health nurses as they
traveled to villages accessible only by foot over waterlogged
terrain to set up mobile prenatal and well-child clinics. Through
sustained interactions with pregnant women, midwives, traditional
birth attendants, and bush doctors, Maraesa encountered
reproductive beliefs and practices ranging from obeah pregnancy to
'nointing that compete with global health care workers' directives
about risk, prenatal care, and hospital versus home birth. Fear and
shame are prominent affective tropes that Maraesa uses to
understand women's attitudes toward reproduction that are at times
contrary to development discourse but that make sense in the lived
experiences of the women of southern Belize.
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