Sunita Mandal is a 20-year-old mother of two daughters. She got married when she was just 14 and gave birth to her first baby at the age of 15. After just one-and-a-half years, she gave birth to another child which died right after birth. During the delivery, her womb had ‘collapsed’. Despite this, Sunita gave birth 18 months later.
“It’s very hard for me to handle my two daughters and to do household things. I always have back pain and feel weak,” says Mandal, a resident of Malekapur village in southern Nepal’s Saptari district. “I bleed a lot too,” she says.“You know I nearly died during the birth of my second baby.
I was lucky that god saved my life, but we couldn’t save our baby,” she says with tears running down her cheek. But even that did not stop her from wanting to become pregnant again–because she and her family wanted a son.One in every 10 women in Nepal is believed to have been suffering from uterus prolapse currently. And thousands more young girls are at its risk. Nepal has a high rate of child marriage and underage births, that too in short intervals. A Human Rights Watch report says that Nepal has the third highest rate of child marriage in Asia, after Bangladesh and India.
More than 37 per cent of Nepali girls get hitched before their 18th birthday and 10 per cent tie the knot by 15, even when the minimum age for marriage under Nepali law is 20.
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