BarabatiBarabati suffered from uterine prolapse for twenty years without even telling her husband about her symptoms. “If I told anyone, they would neglect me and treat me badly. They would say that I am a ba
... [more]Like many women, Barabati was working in the fields when she first knew that something was wrong. By her best guess she was around thirty years old at the time; just two years earlier she had given birth to her one and only child. It was April, the peak of the harvesting season, and Barabati had been cutting and tying bundles of grass. As she bent over to pick up a heavy load she felt a sudden pain in her lower abdomen. Barabati had never heard of uterine prolapse, but she immediately knew that something wasn’t right. Despite the pain that
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