of ethnic Mixe, from the village of Santa Maria Alotepec, Bertha Martinez works as a midwife from fourteen years and serves especially the young ones in your area
to be met in a public hospital, pregnant women in this population must travel four hours to reach the city of Oaxaca, capital of the state.
Bertha said his young age has led to the suspicion of some women, but said they are increasingly putting their children in their hands, particularly the youngest of "between 19 and 32 years."
"The first time I helped in childbirth, with 14 years, I was a child. As it was the first time I went, at first I did feel afraid, but because the baby was born beautiful," said the young midwife .
In Mexico, the number of midwives is declining, although there are places, especially in indigenous and rural areas country, where women still have the techniques of natural medicine with the support of herbs, as does Bertha Martinez. Commonly 
be the mother or grandmother who leaves an inheritance to his descendants this job and there are those who "dream" to be midwives and state they are aware of this practice skills through the dream, he said.
In his case, he learned the trade through civil organizations that promote natural methods, including organizing Nine Moons, who has a midwifery training program called "Full Moon."
From 14 years, Bertha is a member of the Network for Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights in Mexico and since then also attends international conferences and training courses in Morelos and Chiapas, Oaxaca contiguous states.
also in the Mexican city of Guadalajara recently learned acupuncture techniques, used in her homeland to heal people, with the support of the Association for the Development of Indigenous Acupuncture, an organization that helps promote health in their communities. Bertha
combines his work as a midwife with the third tier school classes in high school, studying with the support of a scholarship, and plans to continue to become medical professional, although his goal is to learn natural medicine and functions complete human body.
So far, one of his priorities has been to use and promote the use of medicinal plants to heal the sick.
"I like to say that it is always better with herbs because they contain many chemical compounds are known natural that our ancestors and is a heritage we have and we must seize," he said.
Bertha's house is also his office. That provides counseling and treatment to those who come for pregnancy as well have some physical discomfort. Although
also visits the homes of their patients, pregnant women as indigenous people prefer to have a birth at home, surrounded by family members. Bertha Martinez
To be a teenager midwife is not easy, except when trying to recover knowledge of herbs that the natives of this land known in detail, many of which have been lost.
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