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Haiti Quake Puts 63,000 Pregnant Women at Risk

January 25, 2010
Rebecca Harshbarger, WeNews

UNITED NATIONS, New York (WOMENSENEWS)--Rose Mirlande Veilard could no longer feel her baby's kicks and became scared. The Port-au-Prince, Haiti, resident wondered if her baby had been killed during her struggle to leave her home near Champs de Mars, the presidential plaza, during the earthquake.

Since the earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, the 22-year-old has slept in a car parked outside of a church. When Veilard was finally able to see a doctor at a hospital, she found out her baby was still alive, the U.N. Population Fund, or UNFPA, told Women's eNews.

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