Across Women's Lives photographer Anne Bailey spent time last week at the Fundação Altino Ventura rehabilitation clinic in Recife, Brazil, where she took portraits of the parents of babies with microcephaly while their children waited to be seen by a physical therapist.
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Maria de Fatima Silva Oliveira, 21, with three-month-old son Joaquim Gabriel Oliveira Ferreira. Once a week, they travel three hours by car from Frei Miguelinho to Recife so Joaquim Gabriel can participate in physical therapy.
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Germana Soares, 24, from Ipojuca with three-month-old son Guilherme. Learn more about Soares and her involvement with other mothers of babies with microcephaly here.
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Andre Guimaraes, 35, with three-month-old daughter Lauren de Fatima Guimaraes. From Jaboatão dos Guararapes, one hour south of Recife by car.
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Rosana Xavier, 26, with daughter Maria Klara, 1 year and four months. From Olinda, just north of Recife.
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Hilda Venancio da Silva, 38, with four-month-old son Matheus Jober Junior da Silva. From Recife.
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Paulo Rogerio Cavalcanti Araújo, 47, with four-month-old daughter Eduarda Vitória. From Recife.
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Susana Lima da Silva, 25, with three-month-old son William Gabriel. From Recife.
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