Dr. Suri Srimathi began studying to become a doctor in an era when it was frowned upon. At age 92, she has delivered 200,000 babies and counting, as she still performs her medical care as if in her heyday. She has not only birthed babies, but has birthed and nurtured care for women’s wellbeing in India. Child marriages, large families, maternal deaths, stillbirths, and newborn deaths have seen dramatic declines over the years. Times when she performed deliveries on minor pregnant girls or the 13th delivery of a child from the same couple are rare these days. Dr. Srimathi still feels joy “in the babies she has helped bring into the world, the mothers who returned home safely, and the quiet promise that care will continue in the hands of those who follow.”
