Giving deaf children an opportunity to learn

Rebekah Saleem

At 21 Rebekah Saleem was newly married and pregnant, and just when she thought life couldn’t get any better she was told she was carrying twin girls.

Excited and scared at the same time Rebekah and her husband Safraz waited anxiously for the day when their baby girls would be born into the world.

The day came, but the birthing experience was so harrowing for the young mother she is not sure she wants more children. Rebekah believes that the midwife who assisted her in the delivery process at the Georgetown Public Hospital damaged her uterus as she attempted to remove one of the twins with her hand as the child appeared stuck. The raptured uterus, according to the mother, resulted in severe bleeding, and her children were