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Our favorite photos of motherhood in Costa Rica through the years

As The Tico Times celebrates Mother’s Day this year, we’re looking back at some of our favorite stories and images featuring mothers in Costa Rica (including sloths. Because baby sloths). Take a look:

Priscilla Mora/Colectivo Nómada for The Tico Times
The Tico Times
Jill Replogle/The Tico Times

In 2015, then-Managing Editor Jill Replogle recounted her experience giving birth at the public Hospital Calderón Guardia…

Courtesy of Gabriela Díaz Musmanni

…and Gabriela Díaz, a former Tico Times reporter, took us through her experience at the Hospital CIMA.

Don German Lopez Martinez
Arnaldo González/The Tico Times

Photographer Arnaldo González explored the exuberant and solemn moments of Mother’s Day 2016 in Chepe.

Alberto Font/The Tico Times

Managing Editor Katherine Stanley shared the mothering tips she’s learned from Costa Rica, “whether I liked it or not.”

mom and baby whale
Kristel Segeren/The Tico Times
Sloth mother and baby.
James Kaiser
Denise Vidal celebrates Costa Rica independence.
Alberto Font/The Tico Times

 

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