14 Jun 2026
by Methmalie Dissanayake
“Trapped inside the womb without even a drop of fluid around him, my little boy suffered. His tiny arms and legs became bent, and his growth slowed more and more. Yet I was told there was nothing that could be done from the outside to help him.”
A mother, who wished to remain unnamed, said this about her son, whom she lost four hours after he was born. She had carried him from the 16th week – when a scan first revealed that the amniotic fluid around him had begun to decrease – through nine weeks of intermittent bleeding and fluid discharge, to a 29th-week emergency caesarean section. She had been told, repeatedly and plainly, that her son would not survive.
Continued: https://www.themorning.lk/articles/7SF1AVNmliDXAw9Y1YSY
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