Tamazutz is a mother of 14 children, all born in her village in the mountains of El Hammam, Algeria. A midwife, she says, is an old woman from the village.

Women are wrapped after childbirth and drink warm teas. Onion tea, she says, is the best for contractions.

It is a common practice in her village to bury the placentas in the Earth after the birth. A legend in her culture says that if the animals eat it, she will be sterile thereafter.