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Your baby’s on the way

Luzia Brand from Libingen in Toggenburg has helped 6,000 babies into the world. She has been a midwife for 50 years and still hasn’t had enough of it. Luzia retired long ago, but still visits “her” ladies – pregnant women and new mums – several times a week on remote farms in Toggenburg. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) 

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