I ASKED TO EMBRACE MY DEAD BABY: Today, after 44 years, I KNOW THAT MY SON IS ALIVE!
"They told me that my baby had died. When I asked to see it, they wouldn't allow it. Then, after 33 years, the registrars said that my son is alive ..." says Pasija Rustemov, who suspects her baby was stolen in the maternity hospital in 1971
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Many bereaved mothers left the maternity wards empty-handed, with the explanation that their child died.
However, hardly any mother saw that their "dead" child, which further brings doubt that all these children are in fact alive.
The story of this woman is similar to thousands of other women, yet unique, and has a different tragic note from all the others.
Pasija Rustemov was 21 when she first became pregnant after five years of marriage during which she eagerly awaited a child.
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When she started giving birth, on July 27, 1971 she went to the maternity ward at the National Front. From that day, her life has not been the same ...
- Labour started. The doctor said he would deliver me soon, leaving me in one room. I spent the entire night there. The pain grew more and more powerful. I got up from the table and started to look for a doctor. I met him in the corridor, and only when I asked him why I was waiting for so long, did they take me to the delivery room - begins the story of Pasija Rustemov.
After several hours of agony, she gave birth to a male child.
- The child was blue and did not immediately cry. Immediately I asked the doctor what happened to the child and why he was not heard. Then another doctor came in and gave him oxygen, and only then did I heard the cries of my baby - she says.
Tears of joy of a new mother!
Immediately then, like a bolt out of the blue, terrible news - her baby died. Doctors, as she says, brazenly announced.
Pasija Rustemov says that this information was terrible for her. She immediately felt sick. Her long-awaited joy and hope were extinguished by this terrible aknowledgement.
- I told the doctor who informed me that I did not have children for five years. I asked them to give me my dead child to hold - continues the shocking confession of this desperate mother.
According to her, they gave her an injection of sedatives and she woke up a few hours later. They did not let her see her dead child.
- When I woke up, I went to the room with babies, however, they did not allow me to enter. They forcibly returned me again and gave me something to calm me down - recounts Pasija Rustemov.
While she was in the hospital, the registrar came looking for information about her child. She gave him the name Sihran and desperately left the hospital.
For years she was tormented by her suspicion that her child was alive, and the first sign that pointed to it was her trip to the municipality in 2004. When asking for a birth certificate, she was told that her son is alive.
She also found that the child was enrolled in the book of births one month after his birth. Our interlocutor wonders how this is possible if the child allegedly died.
With this new knowledge from the municipality, Pasija Rustemov went to the hospital Narodni Front to seek the autopsy report and the information about where her child was buried. However, she only received the birth protocol which was not credible.
A death certificate does not exist, nor any information about the child's death. Moreover, in one of the documents received at the hospital it said that her child was alive.
Another reason that led her to suspect that her son was still alive was a call to go to war. When they came for her second son, they told her and her husband that they have another son.
The agony of the woman lasted for years, until a glimmer of hope appeared.
In fact, she managed to find a man who she suspects is her son. She contacted him, and openly told him about her suspicions.
- When I said that I might be his biological mother, he initially agreed to do a DNA test, but later changed his mind. I did not want to insist and we no longer speak - she says.
As she says, she just wants to find her child and to find out whether the man she suspects as her son actually is. With a tearful voice she told us that she would like to find him and find out where he lives.
- I'm afraid he lives in poverty, and I would love to help him. I'd like to know the truth. It is difficult to live with this burden for years - says our devastated interlocutor.
Unfortunately, Pasija Rustemov is only one of many mothers seeking the truth about their babies.
Although she now has a large family, she says that not a day goes by that she does not think about her first son, whom she feels is alive.