A fear became a callingSourced
She feared childbirth.
Then taught 17,000 couples.
Facing her first delivery, Flora Hommel worried about childbirth. She studied the Lamaze method in Paris in 1951, then returned to Detroit to teach it. By 1989, she had taught more than 17,000 couples.
Her own worry became
a way to support others.
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