JAIPUR: She was too young to even to realize that she was pregnant until she had delivery on Wednesday morning. Due to ignorance and illiteracy,
the only medical care she received during pregnancy was when an emergency ambulance picked her up from the roadside and admitted her to ‘Mahila’ Hospital, but that was only after she had delivered the baby girl.
According to doctors, the mother is apparently 12 or 13 years old, and both she and the baby are doing fine. The girl, Komal (name changed), has yet to come to terms with the fact that she has become a mother. All the attention from media, police and health officials is something the ragpicker, who used to live on Hasanpura roadside, is completely unfamiliar with.
She claims she was “married” to a boy of her age group, Jeetu, who stayed with her for nearly 45 days a few months ago. Her father, though, has a different take. “She used to live with a guy till some time ago, but we are not sure if this is his child.
She never told me that she felt any different. It was only last night that she complained of stomach ache and it was only when she gave birth to the child that the situation became evident,” says her father. The family, bewildered by the incident and sudden attention, is yet unsure about the future of the mother and the baby.
