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Jemima Kiss
Jemima Kiss

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·Sep 20, 2018

I Was Terrified of Giving Birth

On surrendering to an unknown experience, from which there is no going back — I was already quite pregnant by the spring and looked much more pregnant than I was. Our family doctor fidgeted while I told her about our plans for a water birth at home. I said the scan showed the baby was going to be quite large. She paused. “Nobody likes…

Pregnancy

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I Was Terrified of Giving Birth
I Was Terrified of Giving Birth
Pregnancy

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Feb 16, 2018

In a world with so much pain, we need to listen to each other

Working with Rania Mustafa Ali on her story of escape from Syria has been humbling. This is how it happened — I hope I never stop caring about the world. I hope I never shrug it off, and say that nothing can be done, or that it doesn’t affect me, or that I don’t feel it deeply when I hear about the death of a child, or a family, or one…

Syria

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In a world with so much pain, we need to listen to each other
In a world with so much pain, we need to listen to each other
Syria

5 min read

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Jemima Kiss

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