Best and worst places on earth to be a mother
In the top-ten nations for mothers, Netherlands ranks 9th. Fifty babies celebrate their first birthday with a large cake on Sept. 29, 2009 in Ouderkerk aan den Amstel, Netherlands as an initiative from Unicef to promote vaccination of mothers and babies in the Third World.
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