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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGiving birth in a bunker in Kyiv: 'I said to him you're a new Ukrainian'
Viktoria, 32, describes the birth of her first child in Kyiv: 'While I was pregnant I had taken yoga classes, prepared for gentle birth-giving, took courses. It wasnt like this.'It was the second day of the war.
Me and my husband were afraid to drive to the hospital because of the explosions
The doctor said we needed to go to the bomb shelter
When we entered the shelter we were shocked. It was built in Soviet times and wasnt maintained, it was crumbling and very wet and cold ...
For us there was a small room without any doors, only a shower curtain that separated us from the main room with 50 people in it. There was no medical technology, just a gynaecological chair. I was trying to not even look over there and hoping to go back to the hospital soon.
Then my waters broke. My doctor looked at me and said: OK, we will do it here, its too dangerous to wait. At that moment I wasnt afraid. I trusted my doctor the only thing on my mind was holding my son and ending the pain.
I was so happy when I saw my son, Fedor. With his black hair he looked like a small copy of my husband, who cut the cord. When I held Fedor he was very warm. I just felt, wow, love and pure happiness and all these mystical feelings.
As I held him in the bunker, I said to him: Youre lucky, youre unique, youre born in Ukraine, youre a new Ukrainian.
For us there was a small room without any doors, only a shower curtain that separated us from the main room with 50 people in it. There was no medical technology, just a gynaecological chair. I was trying to not even look over there and hoping to go back to the hospital soon.
Then my waters broke. My doctor looked at me and said: OK, we will do it here, its too dangerous to wait. At that moment I wasnt afraid. I trusted my doctor the only thing on my mind was holding my son and ending the pain.
I was so happy when I saw my son, Fedor. With his black hair he looked like a small copy of my husband, who cut the cord. When I held Fedor he was very warm. I just felt, wow, love and pure happiness and all these mystical feelings.
As I held him in the bunker, I said to him: Youre lucky, youre unique, youre born in Ukraine, youre a new Ukrainian.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/02/giving-birth-in-a-bunker-in-kyiv-new-ukrainian
Victorias doctor was more concerned about her safety in a hospital, than having to give birth in a wet, cold Soviet era bunker. He was right to be. Putin is a barbarian.
Maternity hospital near Kyiv damaged after attack
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-n1290293/ncrd1290339#liveBlogCards
I hope my son will experience this war only from stories that he will never, never feel what its like in real life ... Im hoping and praying for peace hes a new Ukrainian, he should grow up in a new Ukraine.
Yes, but no doubt the new Ukraine will have new, well appointed, modern bunkers, just in case.
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Giving birth in a bunker in Kyiv: 'I said to him you're a new Ukrainian' (Original Post)
speak easy
Mar 2022
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secondwind
(16,903 posts)1. ....
my eyes watered up when I saw the mom and her baby.... what a world we are living in today!!!
speak easy
(9,238 posts)3. The Russians shelled a maternity hospital.
Putin is a barbarian.
Demovictory9
(32,448 posts)2. I'm glad mom and baby are well
Magoo48
(4,705 posts)4. Peace, good health, and freedom to mother and child.
brer cat
(24,559 posts)5. What a nightmare.
I'm glad mom and baby are well.