{"id":75170,"date":"2025-11-14T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/nov\/14\/healthcare-kashmir-mountains-giving-birth-alone-gujjar-bakarwal-pastoralists-maternal-mortality"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:00:22","slug":"born-in-the-forest-the-women-giving-birth-alone-in-the-kashmiri-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75170","title":{"rendered":"Born in the forest: the women giving birth alone in the Kashmiri mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Far from hospitals, nomadic Gujjar women routinely go into labour \u2013 and die \u2013 on their herder communities\u2019 long seasonal treks<\/p>\n<p>Dawn had just broken across the trail through the Pir Panjal mountains when Fatima Deader felt the first labour pains. She and her family had almost reached the midway point of their 134 mile (215km) trek from Rajouri in Jammu to Kashmir\u2019s higher pastures. Mist clung to the forest, and the ground was slick beneath the feet of the caravan of about 70 pastoralists who had stopped to camp together the previous night.<\/p>\n<p>A week from her due date, she had been travelling on horseback and assumed the discomfort she felt was fatigue \u2013 until pain tore through her body.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/nov\/14\/healthcare-kashmir-mountains-giving-birth-alone-gujjar-bakarwal-pastoralists-maternal-mortality\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far from hospitals, nomadic Gujjar women routinely go into labour \u2013 and die \u2013 on their herder communities\u2019 long seasonal treksDawn had just broken across the trail through the Pir Panjal mountains when Fatima Deader felt the first labour pains. She and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5058,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,566,346,62,1187,432,1186,1722,1385,3445,79,61,84,281,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-health","category-india","category-infant-and-child-mortality","category-kashmir","category-maternal-health","category-maternal-mortality","category-mongolia","category-pastoralism","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations","category-women","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75171,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75170\/revisions\/75171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}