Humor, Honorable mention
Volker Kraemer
Stern
Stern
01 January, 1983
The midwife with a mother after giving birth to her second child at home. Birth is both an everyday event and a wonder. Every second, three babies are born in the world. Advocates of delivery at home argue that hospitalization with specialist medical help is needed in at most a tenth of all cases.
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