My mother is looking for non-fiction book she read back in the early 70’s(though it could been written years before) about a group of civilians hiding in the jungles of the Philippians during World War 2. She says there was a chapter where a woman had to give birth in complete darkness.
Any chance it could be Guerrilla Wife by Louise Reid Spencer?
This is charming Mrs. Spencer, who went to the Philippines as the bride of her mining-engineer husband. Life on Masbate was pleasant: plenty of years to do the housework, the Saturday bridge parties and occasional sprees to Manila. Then the Japs. To avoid torture or even murder, the Spencers took to the hills, little dreaming at the time that the jungle would claim them for more than two years. Louise Spencer didn’t imagine that before they got out they’d be living with savages who had never seen white people before. This little band of refugees was forced to lead a strange, hunted, gypsy-like, jungle life.http://www.militaryhistorybookshop.com/ap_louise_reid_spencer.html
Somebody named Laverne gave birth to a baby named Susan, but not in complete darkness. Page 202 says:
That may be it-I’ll check it out.