Somali Teenager Divorced by Husband after a brutal child birth caused her to wet the bed

Seventeen-year-old Gani Adan not only lost her baby, but was divorced by her husband, and scorned cruelly by her neighbours for 10 months whilst she suffered incontinence resulting from her traumatic first childbirth experience.

After being in labour for three days, the traditional midwives attending to her forcefully pulled the dead baby from Gani’s womb, rupturing her bladder.

“When I suffered this problem, I fell into shock. My husband couldn’t bear to be with me so that was how I was divorced. People used to gossip about my condition, they would say that this girl can’t hold back her urine and that is why she was divorced,” she said.

On 30 November, Gani received free fistula surgery in Luq mother and child hospital in Gedo. Recuperating in bed, she recalled that the reason her husband left her was her bed wetting.

“Urine was flowing when I was brought here. I received free medicine that has improved my condition. I also underwent free surgery. Now, I am 100 per cent healthy,” she said

Fadumo Warow Hassan suffered from fistula for 14 months. She was forced to shut down her tea shop in Ceeldhanaaw village in October 2020, fearing that people would get to know of her condition.

“Only my parents and our family knew about my suffering, I hid it from the rest of the people fearing they would gossip about me, so I stayed home. My urine was flowing, so how can you work if you wet the chair you’re sitting on?” she asked.



Very shocking and sad... some people don't deserve to be walking this earth
 
The 'midwives' aka butchers, forcefully pulled a baby out of her, damaging her bladder so she can't hold her urine, and her husband divorces her instead of seeking immediate help for her.
This is how he thanks her for birthing his baby?

Hollywood writers need to tour Somalia and interview the women there, if they want to find inspiration for their horror movies.
Midwives over there are trash. They have caused so many issues with births.
 
A fistula is an easy surgery, but needs someone trained in Urogynecology to fix it.
Unfortunately, it is one of the more socially stigmatizing conditions a woman can have after birth because of the urinary or fecal incontinence that arises. The birth was so traumatic that it caused a hole to form between places it shouldn't have. Some women have fistulas that make it so that poop comes out of their vaginas.

I'm glad she was able to get some medical care! That husband who left her at her time of greatest need is an asshole, may he get what's coming to him. I hope she chooses the next man she's with more wisely.

Here's a documentary that talks about it more in depth based in Ethiopia:

A quick caveat, It may make you cry because of the inhumane treatment these ladies suffer from the stigmatization.
 

Basra

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it is easily fixable. I think in Ethiopia there are many doctors who are expert in performing surgery for it. Or Kenya am sure since ethiopia is not safe now
 

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It’s so heart breaking.

in general, delivering a baby is life or death situation. Even in west with advance medicine, there are always delivery complications .
 

Leila

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It’s so heart breaking.

in general, delivering a baby is life or death situation. Even in west with advance medicine, there are always delivery complications .

I was in labour for 2 days and I had to have an emergency C section. I live in a country with one of the best healthcare systems in the world and it was a traumatizing experience .

And some people (funny it’s mostly men) have the nerve to argue it’s no big deal for a underdeveloped teenage girl to give birth because women managed to do the same for thousands of years .
 
I was in labour for 2 days and I had to have an emergency C section. I live in a country with one of the best healthcare systems in the world and it was a traumatizing experience .

And some people (funny it’s mostly men) have the nerve to argue it’s no big deal for a underdeveloped teenage girl to give birth because women managed to do the same for thousands of years .
A grown woman can be not fit to give birth to a baby, we dont know if it was bc she was underdeveloped or not, so u cant rly say, unless u know her personally and have done a medical check on her to see if shes fit to give birth u cant rly say that.
Also giving birth is supposed to be a traumatizing experience, modern medicine is an anomaly in the entire human history, and even with modern medicine its still difficult to give birth.
 

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