Miracle of life: Covid killed their husbands, they fought to give birth

Paul John & Radha SharmaTimes Network
May 30, 2024 | 20:00 IST

Two widows fight to conceive children with deceased husbands' genetic material, defying loss and legal hurdles for motherhood dreams.

  • The husbands of two women died from Covid during the deadly second wave
  • One of the women was planning a child through fertility treatment when she lost her husband
  • The other woman was told that her husband would not live for long
  • Now, both are determined to be mothers of children of their dead husbands
  • From Gujarat, an amazing story of love and the miracle of life

Remember those dark times of unprecedented death and disease during the second wave of Covid in the year 2021? People were dying, gasping for breath as hospitals ran out of beds, ventilators, medicines, and oxygen. Desperate pleas of ambulance sirens rent the air as they queued up outside hospitals with patients struggling for breath.

In such times when everybody was losing somebody close to them, the love of two Gujarati women for their husbands hit headlines when they pushed through the wall of grief and moved heaven and earth to ensure that they get a chance to become mothers to their husband's child even after their death. A year after the devastating second wave of Covid, as people pick up the pieces of their lives, we take you on the journey of two women whose lives were changed by the deaths of their husbands, but who are hoping to create a future based on the past.
/india
Copyright © 2024 Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved. For reprint rights: Times Syndication Service.