Reports | 25 05 2020
Despite the difficult living conditions experienced by the region of Houla, northern Homs, but "Ruqaya" is thinking about having a brother to her newborn, after the success of her first experience of childbearing in natural way.
She confirms in her speech to "ROZANA", that she dreamed of establishing a home, family and children, like the other girls, even though the region she lives in is experiencing a siege and, and most of the child requirements are unavailable and most births are difficult and dangerous, due to the shortage in the medical supplies, but her natural birth for her child, "Yusuf ", made her think of having a brother to him.
"If the war dragged on and, siege and the high cost of living, the child would come accompanied with his livelihood " says Ruqaya.
The challenge of continuing life
Saeed married in the beginning of the revolution in 2011, and has got a new baby girl, and with the events escalation and the war intensification, he decided not to have children for two years, but recently he changed his mind.
Saeed says, "The ongoing shelling, clashes and poor living conditions are getting worse in the Houla day after day, what led me all to refrain from procreation for two years, but life must go on, so I decided, despite all these circumstances, to have another child, whether under the bombing and siege or not. "
And he advised the wary and hesitant young men about having children, to do it, and experience the fatherhood feelings, because the war is an "extended", he says.
Dissenting opinions
Abu Yazan disagree with Ruqaya and Saeed opinion, he believes that the idea of procreation is not suitable, as he advised young people who ae about to marry to delay procreation, and take into account the situations of health and security, that their children will face.
Abu Yazan told ROANA that he has married seven years ago, and fathered three children, but currently he is not thinking about having another child, because the current situations are different from the past, where the modern hospitals existed to take care of the mother and the child before, and the shortage in the infant milk was not source of concern, but now, the basic medical supplies are unavailable.
"In every region we have only one gynecologist, and number of deaths were recorded, of mothers and children." He adds.
According to Sammy who is a nurse in Houla, already recorded many cases of deaths during childbirth has already recorded, but in slight percentages. Most births are by midwives at home, and he stressed that the only gynecologist in the area is unable to deal with the critical situations of mothers who need surgery, due to the lack of medical equipment.
Sammy says: "Most of the births in the Houla are at home with the help of midwives, and in case the birth was difficult, they would see a specialist in the region," and despite the fact that Caesarean sections had exceeded the fifty operations a month in Houla, still under the shortage of essential supplies because of the siege of the forces of order to the Syrian regime siege on the region, "pointing out that there are cases where mothers have lost their lives during childbirth, as a result for the shortage.
And between being afraid and being courage, procreation remains under all the bad conditions experienced by the families in Houla, also financial situation plays the most important role in that decision.