SHOT AT IN MOTHER’S WOMB: Mother breastfeeds baby after 13 days of birth

Bullet-wounded mother Nazma Begum burst into tears as she got the chance to take in her lap her newborn, shot at in her womb, for the first time on Wednesday, 13 days after her daughter was born through caesarean section.
Nazma said, ‘The baby was in a glass-walled room when I was taken at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital from my ward. I cannot describe my feeling in words when a physician gave her in my lap. Maybe none can explain the feeling of a mother of such a time.’
She, however, lamented that she always dreamt for a healthy child as her first child, a Class III student, cannot remember anything she sees or learns.
Pregnant Nazma and her baby in the womb were injured and her uncle-in-law was killed in shooting on July 23 as a sequel of infighting between two groups of the ruling Awami League-backed youth and student organisation Juba League and Chattra League.
Nazma needed caesarean section on the same day to give birth the wounded child at Magura Sadar Hospital and the baby was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital two days later. Nazma was also brought to the same hospital later for better treatment and to remain closer to her newborn.
The mother was enthusiastic when she said the baby had been looking at her and she saw the baby sucking its own finger. ‘My daughter began sleeping after breastfeeding and then the physicians took her again into her glass-walled small room.’
Nazma’s husband Bachchu Bhuiyan said that his wife got the chance to keep the baby for over half an hour in her lap and she breastfed the baby before she was taken to her ward.
He said that he and his wife named the baby Suraiya Begum.
Paediatric surgery department associate professor Kaniz Hasina Shiuli, who has been supervising the treatment of the newborn, said that the baby was improving and they gave the baby the chance to get its mother’s love.

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