in Puscha-Vodizia
From the last breaths to the first cries. Midwives at the Leleka Maternity Hospital are giving life again after surviving death in the first month of the invasion. By then the front was several kilometers away and the clinic had turned itself into a military hospital. But today, except for a few fragments of the forehead, Leleka seems to be back to normal. Natalya Shemyakina, chief medical director, says: “Children born here are healthy. We do not see the effect of the war on them. They are still imbued with their mothers’ hormones and are preserved. Ukrainian women are brave, they can give birth even under bombs.”
Natalia, however, portrays a disturbed section. “Many women have left, elsewhere or abroad. We have 30% fewer births here than before the war. In addition to motherhood, we see two phenomena: first, an increase in abortions among women who already have children and are afraid.
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Source: Le Figaro
