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#nofgm tnread on embarking to find out why I suffered so much giving birth. What was those 3 letters stand for FGM. that's back early 90s
So I give birth. So traumatised. I am in so much pain .i can't sit properly. Constantly in pain. I need to hold my baby so much .he is my medicine. I forget i am pain when he is in my arms holding him. I want to him hear my heart beat. I want him to feel me
I want my son to know. He has given my life, purpose to live.God i am overwhelmed with the love I feel almost drowning in beautiful way. But I have something in my head that I need to know. I saw they wrote on the report card FGM. what is that .why do i feel they mean something
So after months of recovery. I start to go out. Library is around the corner I am hunting a book that might that have these 3 letters on it. But i have massive problem. I can't speak English. So I also embark on starting to learn English in my own I pick a simple picture book
That have fruits on it. I say to my son look banaba, apple he giggles. He has such a cute smile . I go to the library everyday. I am trying to find any book that might explain. I come a cross abook that female,Genital Mutilation. I pick still didn't know if this is it
I open inside . I nearly fell down .the pictures were illustrated. I am super shocked. I take the book . Now major problem. How do I read this book. Its written in English. So I took a Somalia dictionary and started to translate everything. Its a revelation. It was massive
I am relieved to know that its not only my country that mutilate girl's its many other countries. All of sudden I am relived. I am not alone. There are millions like me out there. Reading this book is absolutely giving me so much.
I am painstakingly translating everything. Sometimes some of the words in English was not in Somali language. I had to guess by putting sentences together. I am learning English so fast. The determination and shear hunger to understand everything was giving me strength
To learn English so fast. I am calm. I am understanding so much . I M getting knowledge which is giving answers that I longed for such a long time. I walking in the street. I am looking at the woman. I am wondering in my head. Are you like me. Do you feel like me
All of sudden the loneliness is removed. The trauma is suffered by millions like me. I feel comfort
In that . It takes me a year to understand and to learn English too. I feel amazing. I am filled with pain but relieved so much. My son is getting bigger. Walking ,running
In that . It takes me a year to understand and to learn English too. I feel amazing. I am filled with pain but relieved so much. My son is getting bigger. Walking ,running
He is my world and I am dotting mother and over protective sometimes. I cry for the millions who suffered like. I am filled with anger too. I decided to bury eveything and just be a mother. This helps alot and sometimes I do feel like a volcano 
about to erupt
about to erupt
Well I have erupted and I use that pain that I buried so deep for so long to help end the nightmare that Female Genital Mutilation. I use my experience without fear at all. I am bold women. Quite mouthy and proud of it in every sense
Motherhood us gorgeous for me. I am glowing from inside .I have my demons but its controlled by my beautiful son. Everything is another him. We are a team .
