Esther N McCarthy: It’s nothing new - in times of crisis, women and children suffer
Refugees fleeing the conflict from neighbouring Ukraine hold flowers, on International Women's Day, at the Romanian-Ukrainian border, in Siret, Romania. Picture: Andreea Alexandru/AP/Shutterstock
I’m trying to wrap my head around what it must be like to be a pregnant woman in Ukraine, where 80,000 mothers will give birth in the next three months.
The three times I was an expectant mother were the happiest months of my life. Having survived a 120-foot fall off a cliff when I was 22, albeit with a broken back and hip, I was warned becoming pregnant would be dangerous. Each birth needed considerable medical interventions, from surgery to neonatal care, without which, they realistically would not have survived.
