Bringing babies into the world in Lebanon’s crammed shelters

Mariam Zein cradled her 11-week-old son on a mattress on the floor where she and her family have sheltered near Beirut since the Israel-Hezbollah war upended her young family’s life. “I was really excited when I was in my ninth month of pregnancy… I never thought he’d be born and there’d be war,” said Zein, 26, clutching baby Hussein. “I haven’t been able to enjoy my son —my first child… to see him getting bigger in his own bed, in his own home.” “I was very sad, and I’m still sad,” she told ...

By none@none.com (AFP)