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a mother holding her newborn baby while the father looks on
June 21, 2020

Happy Birthday

An article in the January 1976 issue praised Sweden's society and politics, including its health care system. Here, new parents meet their baby after a natural delivery in a public maternity hospital.
Photograph by Jonathan Blair, Nat Geo Image Collection

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