“I wrapped him up and started praying for God to protect us until the earthquake ends and we can go down safely.”
When the earthquake struck, Fatmah Ahmad’s family fled their building in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo only for her to go into labor – giving birth to her third child in hospital a few hours later.
“May God protect him, give him a good life and not deprive me of him,” she said of her new son, named Najm al-Din Mahmoud.Even after he was born, mother and baby faced danger. A big aftershock struck later that day as they lay in an upstairs maternity ward.
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