“I was 33 when I was pregnant with Niku. I had a difficult pregnancy. In my 32nd week, my obstetrician demanded termination of pregnancy because of undoubted signs that the child would not be born healthy. My husband’s family suggested abortion on the pretext that
„I was 24 when I was summoned by the commissariat during the World War Two. Our regiment was taken to Ukraine. But we had to stay there for only two or three days. I was a doctor-stomatologist. They registered us and told us that they
„I’ve always had this feeling that I was “nobody’s child”. I was born in Telavi in 1981, without a father. When I was born, my father had another family and he had left my mother during her pregnancy. Imagine how difficult it must have been
„I was not able to have children because of biological reasons. I would have never been able to have a baby unless medicine had been so developed. Saba, who is now 13, is a biological son of my husband and me, born through in vitro
I was married at 22 and lived for 7 years with a man who was completely different from me. My eldest child, Mariam was diagnosed with hydrocephalus caused by birth trauma. They discharged us from the hospital, not telling us there was something wrong with
„I had done gymnastics as my parents wished until I took up judo. I knew that there was some extracurricular sports class available at school and went to check it. It appeared to be a judo class. When I entered the class first, I liked
„Both my husband and I wanted to have a baby very much, i.e. this was a planned pregnancy and we prepared for that. Moreover, as my husband is a doctor, we learned the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations and almost retold them to each other.
„My mother and I spent all summer holidays in Borjomi in my childhood. Most of the time we rented the house of one and the same photographer, who worked and took pictures in the Borjomi Park. I was allowed to do anything in this house,
“He is a boy, so when he grows up he’s going to be ashamed of having his mother’s last name,” – this is what I’ve been told repeatedly, but I refuse to agree. I don’t think that as a parent I am responsible for ensuring