This past week, I have woken up waaay too early every morning. Today was no exception, despite the exhaustion from the past few days.
The midwives from Casa Aramara (casaaramara.com.mx) picked us up in the morning to tour their birth center. It's amazing! They have around 4 exam/consulation rooms, two birth suites, rooms for housing interns, a kitchen, a rooftop yoga studio/classroom, and a rooftop medicinal garden. What an amazing service in a city where some hospitals have C-section rates of 95%!
The birth rooms each have several rebozos hung from the ceiling in strategic locations. The fabric is slightly stretchy to allow easy movement.
She showed us a few of the medicinal plants. One was for treating UTIs, another for anemia, and another (a variety of eucalyptus) for treating newborn respiratory issues via an inhaled vapor.
We next walked over to a midwifery school run by the same midwife who runs the birth center, Maria Cortes. They are in the final stages of governmental approval to open a 4-year accredited bachelor's program in midwifery. It will be the first in the county to combine traditional midwifery practices with modern midwifery.
And I was TOTALLY geeking out over the building it will be housed in--built around 1800, a former house, and now under historic preservation. You enter through a gorgeous archway into an interior courtyard with a fountain. The rooms all open into the courtyard, so you have to go outside to go from one room to another. It has five classrooms, several rooms that will be offices, a kitchen, and a few bathrooms.
It feels like you're entering a small Renaissance palace 🙂 Nearly every room had skylights, which I suspect were part of the orignal design. It's built from adobe bricks, which means it's more insulated than modern construction.
We were close to the historic city center, so we walked over to see the cathedral and to each lunch. I got a few minutes to play tourist! After lunch it was time to head to the airport. Two flights later, I got home at 1 am.
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