Many Afghan women face lonely, frightening births

KABUL/HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - An Afghan woman can expect to have an average 5.1 Babies in her Lifetime, the highest Fertility Rate in Asia. That makes giving birth a common, and frequent experience -- but mothers say it is too often also hard, lonely and frightening. At the Ahmad Shah Baba hospital, which Medecins Sans Frontieres runs on the outskirts of Kabul, Bazbobo, 40 and seven months pregnant with her 13th child, says she has delivered most of her babies at home and alone, unable to get to hospital without a male relative to escort her. ...read more..

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