Tehran Diary: The Midwife--video.NEWSWEEK.com

5/22/09: Haleh Khorram studied to be a midwife in France, then returned to Tehran to practice and be near her family (Video: Maziar Bahari, Mehdi Ganji)

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[rastaturk1]

@scrappygirl100 The govt has never played an encouraging element in people's lives instead the do the bidding of foreign powers. If the govt didn't hold people back, Iran may have started to rival some European countries in life style quality. Iran and US are ranked about equal in several socioeconomic categories such as income equality and business corruption.

[rastaturk1]

@scrappygirl100

What the hell? Obviously you don't know anything about Iran. The only reason their society may not be as consumerist as ours, is from the 3 military coups the Brits and US have pulled in Tehran the last 100 years. Iranian/Americans who happen to be the most educated and accomplished of all immigrant groups in the US according govt stats. I hate Iran's govt now and I hated Iran's govt when the Shah was in.Both sold out. Billionaire mollahs are not different.

[ebi2019]

@scrappy i mean if you were talking about iranians....

[ebi2019]

@scrappygirl you really don't know what you are talking about! Lol

[HotSwollenPregBelly]

Aw, the way the baby kicks and nearly pushes the transducer off at 0:39 is so cute.

[squaaaaash]

@linfinster immigrants to where? , ure rite! Like the Mel Gibson remake of Life of Brian!

[scrappygirl100]

I think that you need to remember that their culture is about 75 years behind us in their philosophy about family size. They are still functioning as immigrants, and the need to produce children is important to them so they have someone to help them as they age.....they lose children to war, disease and famine and it takes a few generations before they are culturally habitated here and realize that they don't have to worry about those things anymore. :) Call me.

[Mahdavi1990]

What the hell do you think Iranians are like? Iranians are very modern and civilized people, don't try patronizing their culture and society.

[linfinster]

I wish the immigrants from Somalia had the same "respect" this woman talks about and stop having so many children they can't and wont ever be able to afford. It's wrong to have children you can't afford, for anyone.

[UsedGloo]

I love the new mindset of the mother she's checking.  Kind of a reversal of what you'd expect from the typical middle eastern importance placed on sons rather than daughters.