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 she endured as a result of her prolapsed uterus, Barabati told no one about her symptoms. Like too many women, Barabati was afraid that if she told even her husband about her personal health problems,
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