Meet Julienne cadet the woman who gave birth during Hurricane Matthew.

(CNN)Jean-Atan Cadet and twin brother Jonas were welcomed into the world as the hemisphere's poorest nation embarks on another painful recovery.

Hours after Hurricane Matthew cut a destructive path across Haiti, their mother Julienne found herself in distress and bleeding during labor.
Cadet, 35, had been trudging alone on a dirt road near the rural southwestern community of Fond-des-Blancs. Workers from St. Boniface Hospital spotted her, the hospital's resident coordinator, Kat White, said in a phone interview Friday night.


A motorcycle the expectant mother had hired for the journey was unable to cross a river.

"I was in so much pain," Cadet told White. "I was afraid I would lose the babies or pass away."

An ambulance rushed Cadet to St. Boniface. On Wednesday afternoon, she had one of four emergency cesarean sections performed at the hospital during the hurricane, according to White.


Cadet was fortunate.At least 300 people have died since Matthew made landfall in Haiti on Tuesday as a Category 4 hurricane, according to Paul Altidor, Haitian ambassador to the United States.

The death toll is expected to rise as remote areas isolated by washed-out bridges become accessible, the ambassador said.

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