Babies in Baghdad refers not only to the babies born in Iraq, but to our own babies who have grown up to be soldiers that live and die for the protection of Iraqi children.

Maureen Swingle is first and foremost a mother and wife in her American family and then a nurse manager of 250 co-workers in the Mother-Baby unit at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, MO. Maureen is a graduate of Madison General Hospital School of Nursing and Washington University in St. Louis with a Masters of Science Degree in Health Services