Births in the slums Bashny.Net

Saj - a pregnant mother of the family, preparing to give birth to another child in a slum Korail in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sajid is living in a small, stuffy and dirty closet in Korail slum, surrounded by plants. As in most other slums, where no doctors or basic health units. Like hundreds of years ago, there is only the midwives help deliver babies. However, their qualifications under a big question, and give birth under their care is a risky business - many women die in childbirth along with her newborn. In Bangladesh, the world's highest death rate of pregnant women - 440 to 100 thousand people. It is caused by the fact that the majority of births in the country accepted unskilled and uneducated midwives.

Sajid decided to give birth under the supervision of a midwife. She believes that if God wants, everything will go well. In spёrtom air slum closet, without any modern devices and medicines, Saji uncomplicated birth to a boy.

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1) 34-year-old pregnant Saji sitting in squalid conditions of their shacks





2) Saji caresses her son, and she suffers severe pain of the first contractions



3) March 22. Even being pregnant, Saji forced not only to work but also to perform household duties. Naturally, she was not able to pass meditsinskoe survey and make your child under medical supervision. If it does not work, her family will die of hunger, so Saji continued to work on the hard work until the last, which, of course, strongly contraindicated for pregnant women.



4) Saji lay down to rest in the sultry noon April 9



5) April 17 started labor pains. In the slums there are midwives to help women giving birth, but their ability to a big question, because deaths during childbirth are uncommon.



6) April 17th. The midwife listens to the heartbeat of the fetus by means of trimming the plastic tube. In Bangladesh, the death rate of women during pregnancy is 440 per 100,000 - the highest rate in the world. But the death rate during childbirth themselves even higher. According to statistics, ongoing since 2007, it is 151 (or the child or pregnant woman) per 1000 births. Of these, 61 cases for 1000 - the death of a newborn. The main reason for such high rates - illiteracy midwives and lack of normal medical support.



7) April 17th. Woman gives birth to the traditional way of this area, under the supervision of a midwife, because the money for a full medical obstetric care in a family there. Saji will give birth as well. But she believes that if God is on her side, then everything goes well, because she has already given birth to three children in the same conditions.



8) May 5th. In the light of a new inhabitant of the slum - the midwife holds a newborn baby boy and exhausted Saji is nearby. Family financial situation only worsened during her pregnancy, Sajjil even had a few days to starve. But despite this, she diligently complied with all the recommendations and bans midwife. Finally, in due time she gave birth to a healthy baby boy in the care of the same grandmother, without any modern instruments and drugs. For many it's hard to believe, but an hour later she left her own midwife on foot with a newborn baby in her arms.



9) May 8th. Newborn lying on the floor next to three older children who eat rice.



10) Saji child breast feeds dirty stuffy room, May 8, 2009



11) Black spot at the foot of the child shall ward off evil spirits.



12) The father welcomes his son a kiss



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