Kathmandu, Sept. 6 -- Kriti, 33, from Suryabinayak, Bhaktapur, had always wanted a daughter. When her son turned five, she and her husband decided to try for a second child. In March 2021, she became pregnant. "We were overjoyed for the new little one to join the family," she recalls.

But, just 10 weeks later, she miscarried at home. "I was in so much pain, sitting in the bathroom, bleeding, and with every drop, I felt my baby's life slipping away."

Later, when she went for a check-up at Civil Hospital in New Baneshwar, a gynaecologist brushed off her grief. "You still have a son, right? So what's there to worry about? There's no issue with the uterus; in a few weeks, you can conceive again."

Kriti, who the Post is identifying with a p...