{"id":274218,"date":"2019-04-27T13:15:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T17:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiW2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnVuZnBhLm9yZy9uZXdzL2NvZmZlZS1jZXJlbW9ueS1hbmQtbWlkd2l2ZXMtbXVtcy1nZXQtaGFwcHktc3RhcnQtcnVyYWwtZXRoaW9waWHSAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:41:40","slug":"coffee-ceremony-and-midwives-a-happier-start-for-rural-ethiopian-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274218","title":{"rendered":"Coffee ceremony and midwives: a happier start for rural Ethiopian mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNFPA\u2019s 2019 feature followed midwives and coffee-ceremony hospitality in rural Ethiopia as ways to pull pregnant women toward skilled birth care, blending tradition with clinical safety.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Coffee ceremony and midwives: a happier start for rural Ethiopian mothers\" \/>\n<p>Maternal health gains depend on staffing, transport, and trust, not only posters. A coffee pot at the clinic door can lower fear when hospitals still feel alien.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s modernization speeches rarely lingered on night-shift midwives. Yet maternal survival is a harder scoreboard than cabinet photos.<\/p>\n<p>As health\/women reference, the UNFPA piece keeps a human scale: named practice, rural setting, and the stubborn fact that Ethiopia\u2019s future is born in places without sirens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/news\/coffee-ceremony-and-midwives-mums-get-happy-start-rural-ethiopia\">UNFPA<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With coffee ceremony and midwives, mums get a happy start in rural Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;UNFPA NewsBASOLIBEN, Ethiopia \u2013 When Fikre Molla was preparing to have her baby, she wanted the childbirth traditions she had grown up with, but the safety of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19kS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601457,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274218\/revisions\/601457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}