Erin Thornton

Christy and Erin attend Harvard Medical School Symposium & Harvard School of Public Health’s Centennial Celebration

What a week for Birthdays. My daughter turned 10, Harvard School of Public Health turned 100, and Paul Farmer celebrates his birthday…

World Sepsis Day 2013

This year, we feel particularly fortunate to celebrate World Sepsis Day 2013 because maternal sepsis recently hit very close to home for Every Mother Counts.

Every year 100,000 mothers die from sepsis, a severe form of infection. While most of these deaths occur in…

Erin’s Birth Story

Erin Thornton is Every Mother Counts Executive Director and currently on maternity leave with daughter #3. Here’s her story of her baby’s birth, just a couple weeks agoI was scheduled for my third c-section on Tuesday the 20th of August (just last month). I felt confident that it was the right…

Erin at the finish line — The final days of her last pregnancy

We hopped on the phone to chat about how she’s feeling, her upcoming birth, how family life will change and about her challenge to leave work behind for a few months.

EMC’s Erin Thornton Joins the Global Birth Club

EMC’s Erin Thornton, US, shares her labor story.

Labor Details/Baby Details: How did your labor go? Please tell us about the baby (sex, weight, name, etc.) Are you breastfeeding? How did you introduce your baby to your other child/ren? Did your…

Enlightened and MPowerD — a Q&A with Jill Van den Brule

MPowereD is a for-profit social enterprise, but “giving” is at the forefront of our company’s DNA.

Christy and Erin met Jill Van den Brule, co-founder of Micro Power Design (MPowerD) at the Women in the World…

Global Birth Club: April Update

Marie-Ange, our midwife-friend from Haiti, Chennifer, our full-time working mom from Florida, Norah, our stay-at-home mom in Uganda and Erin, Every Mother Counts Executive Director answer our questions for April.

Every Mother Counts Goes To The Inauguration!

The District was packed with visitors from around the county and around the world and a few Every Mother Counts’ staff members were there to see history in the making.