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‘I live with tears every day’

Sinta reflects on the few years with her firstborn son - Bongre.

She, a young woman from Hagen, married a man from Goroka, few years older than her, in 2011.

3 years later, she gives birth to a healthy baby boy, who they will call Bongre.

But Sinta says her first birth wasn’t an easy one - she had about 36 stitches.

Nevertheless, Bongre was the perfect baby.

At 1 year, he was very chubby and had fair skin. Sinta says everybody in the village took turns carrying him; she hardly held her own child.