Mothers In Ukraine Just Want Their Kids To Be Safe

HuffPost spoke to mothers in Ukraine, including at a Lviv maternity ward, about giving birth during wartime.

By Andriy Avramenko and Seth Herald

May 13, 2022, 09:15 AM EDT

|Updated May 13, 2022

Yuliya gave birth on April 7 after fleeing Kyiv. SETH HERALD FOR HUFFPOST

Yuliya gave birth on April 7,2022 after fleeing Kyiv.

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Words by Andriy Avramenko : Yuliya, 38, came to Lviv from Kyiv two weeks after the hostilities started. At first, she and her husband moved to their seasonal house (dacha) near Kyiv. But staying there was dangerous, particularly if she went into labor or if there was another emergency during curfew hours when all the people outside could be considered saboteurs.

So the couple came to Lviv, where Yuliya gave birth on April 7 at Lviv Regional Clinic Hospital.