Birth, joy and fears for the future.
A couple soon expecting childbirth in the hallway of a makeshift underground maternity ward of the Isida clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 2, 2022. Gynecologist and medical director Saar Yaniuta navigates the halls with her cellphone light. Her pregnant patients and the fathers-to-be trek to a basement, where they sleep in a shared hall. Nurses tend to newborns in a converted cafeteria underground.
Bonya’s family, Helena and Vasyl, both 35, are awaiting a Caesarean section on Friday for their first child, a girl. The war meant they had to bring their dog along.Helena has been diagnosed with placenta pravia, a condition that can cause serious bleeding during delivery. The hospital has stocked up on enough blood to assist her. But concerns over the delivery — and bringing their daughter into the conflict — have left her very anxious.
The couple have weighed their options for after the baby’s birth. But they are limited. Vasyl is unable to leave Ukraine, like all men under age 60, who are covered under a general mobilization to fight. But he also does not want to join the territorial defense while trying to care for a newborn.For now they are just trying to focus on the joy their daughter will bring them after years of hoping for a child. They are considering naming her Victoria — for victory.
And so is she. Her husband moved to the hospital to help support her. Their cat, Richard, is with them, too. The day the war started, she said, one patient who was six weeks pregnant called in a panic and asked for a medical abortion.“I don’t know what will be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, but now we do everything to help our patients,” Yaniuta said.
The baby was due Feb. 23. Even as many of their relatives fled Kyiv in fear, the couple knew they had to stay to see through his birth.They worried labor might begin at night, with the city under curfew, when it would be dangerous to drive. Or that they would fall victim to an attack before the delivery. At one point, a missile landed less than 300 meters from their apartment.
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