4 funerals and a wedding

And four births...this is the aptly named baby `Lucky'

Midwifery students in the equivalency program

Susan has her own baby, Peter Nanuq, on her back when she does the head-to-toe newborn exam on Teegan, age 1 hour.

These are the three rockstar midwifery students in Inukjuak. Between them, they've had 9 babies of their own. To be a trainee, they applied and were interviewed by staff at the health centre (I guess it formalizes it, since everyone knows everyone here). They are each at a different levels of their training, and carry varying responsibility for pregnant woman - all under the supervision of two Inuit midwives. Their training is all apprentice-based, and they keep a log book of cases, skills, and knowledge acquired. Once they've provided primary care for 40 women (throughout pregnancy, labour, birth and up to 6 weeks for the woman and baby) and have attended 100 deliveries - they 'defend' all their acquired skills before a panel of midwives...from there, they submit their application to the Ordre de sage-femmes de Quebec, the regulatory body of midwives in Quebec.

Working on caribou heart - learning how to infiltrate anesthetic into a wound...

And learning how to suture