In Mexico, Empowering Mothers During Childbirth

Years later, Estefanía Monterrosas still remembers the girl.

How she came in the middle of the night. How she came alone. How she had crossed the border from Guatemala to Mexico with little more than identity documents, stating her age was 18—documents that turned out to be her sister’s.

The girl was only 15. She had run away from home. And no one in her family, but her sister, knew she was pregnant.

Monterrosas was on duty at Casa Materna that night. She had never seen the girl before. But she recognized her.

“I was a teenage mother,” says Monterrosas. “So I kind of understood and felt everything she felt. No woman should have to go through what I went through.”

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