Sharada Thapa, 34 years old, has been working as a FCHV for two year in Resha, Dotesahara. She has three children one son, 7 years old, and two daughters, 17 and 12 years old. Poor Hari’s life: She was given a life with difficulties, but had to give it up before her time, bleeding to her end. Hari lives in Resha 3 and she belongs to a working class family. In her family there is a father, mother, and sister. Quiet in nature, a polite girl. Once grown up, she passed her S.L.C. She went to Baglung Bazaar for further study. When she was twenty years old she got married. Her husband is in the Indian army. She was very happy, and after some time she became pregnant. She delivered her baby on 2061 (2004). She gave birth to a daughter. Her family wanted a son, so she again...
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WELCOME LABOUR ROOM She is quiet in a room of chaos and clatter. Tulkumaripun’s small frame sinks into the dark turquoise sheets of the Baglung District Hospital Maternity ward. The bright green of her traditional Nepalese dress blends into the sheets. As a new mother, her pained stillness seems out of place. A mob of young nursing students in lavender saris gather around her with worried expressions on their usually excited faces. Tulkumaripun barely opens her eyes, emitting only a soft moan as the drip’s position is modified. The lavender mob straightens her blankets, and then leaves her to rest. Tulkumaripun had gone in to labour the day before, but there were complications. The baby’s arm had come out first leaving the unborn stuck in the birth canal, a potentially life threatening situation for both mother and child. Like most expecting Nepalese mothers in western Nepal, Tulkumaripun was at...
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