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My partner’s step-sister had her 2nd baby today at Antsiranana hospital It has been interesting to see the similarities and differences between her Madagascar experience and my British one.
Complicated birth
We were all a little nervous leading up to this as she lost a healthy baby last year due to strangulation by the cord [...]
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Cloth eating bugs
Sorted through a bag of clothes I’d left here yesterday, to discover that they too had been decimated by some clothes eating bugs.
I’ve no idea what they are so I attach a photo so that someone can tell me. Whatever they are I watched with smug satisfaction as the ants cleared away [...]
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A big topic of conversation has been how FAT I am… Some people have said it to my face and others have said it to Jean.
“Oh she’s been eating cake” “Oh she’s been eating too much sawaba (sweet dish with coconut milk)”.
It doesn’t really work to say “Well I’ve had a baby” as local women [...]
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