Sunday, September 28, 2008

Weird and disturbing

Two stories about babies in the paper yesterday. Both in Bangladesh.

One was of a baby born weighing 33 pounds. The baby was unhealthy and died within minutes after birth. But the story is about the fact that thousands of people went to the parents' house to see the baby, and the parents had to hide him. Good God, mind your own business, people.

Second story involved a baby born with two heads last month. Again the child died, but in this case 150,000 people went to the town to see the baby. 150,000!

What is with these people? Leave these families alone. You think the trauma of this birth isn't bad enough but then they have their towns inundated with curious onlookers. Go home!

4 comments:

cityofmushrooms said...

33 lb baby?? wouldn't the MOTHER also have died???

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Apparently not. They did think she was having triplets, but no, just one giant baby. I wonder how these things happen.

cityofmushrooms said...

haven't these people ever heard of ultrasound?

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Small towns in Bangladesh? No. I'd say ultrasounds are part of a whole other world. It is rather amazing that the mother of the 33 pounder did not die.