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In Bangladesh, life's now better for new mothers.

Thirty percent of Bangladeshi women have their babies at home.

This can be dangerous.

Now, there are some new helpers.

They're 'Skilled Birth Attendants' and they have an important job.

The helpers first do some training.

They help when the baby arrives.

They can help pregnant women before the baby's birth too.

Some pregnant women have problems.

The Attendants, like Nargis Akhter, send those women to hospitals.

The Skilled Birth Attendants started working 20 years ago.

Now, the World Health Organisation says the situation's different.

It's safer for mothers and babies.

The Attendants stopped mothers and babies from dying.

Abdullahel Maruf's a doctor.

In the countryside, things are changing too.

There's a campaign to help pregnant women.

It wants women to have their babies in a clinic.

Mafia's first baby died.

With her second baby, the clinic and Nargis helped her.

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