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Births amid the Pakistan floods

Pakistan Pregnant Women: Sumia, 25, gave birth to a baby boy six days after evacuating her home
Sumia, 25, gave birth to a baby boy six days after being forced to leave her home in the village of Shlar, in the Muzzafargarh district in south Punjab. Sumia, her cousin and their husbands took two days to reach a friend's house 12km away. They had no time to collect belongings and have no money, ID cards, or spare clothing. Sumia has had no access to medical treatment since giving birth on the roadside at an IDP camp. She is now sheltering at a government primary school in the village of Rug
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Pakistan Pregnant Women: Saphia Bibi and cousin Sumia after evacuating their home, Muzzafargarh
Sumia, right, sits with her cousin Saphia Bibi, 25, who is nine months pregnant. The women arrived in Rug after a long walk from their village
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Pakistan Pregnant Women: Saphia Bibi and cousin Sumia after evacuating their home, Muzzafargarh
Saphia and Sumia are surviving on a donated naan bread each per day and have no access to clean drinking water
Photograph: Jason Tanner/Save the Children
Pakistan Pregnant Women: Shenaz bibi, 20,  with her two-day-old baby boy, at a Primary School
Shenaz Bibi, 20, and her family walked 20km to escape flooding that devastated their village. Shenaz and her two-day-old baby have not received any medical attention. She relies on food donations from a nearby camp and has been using water from a contaminated natural well
Photograph: Jason Tanner/Save the Children
Pakistan Pregnant Women: Muhammad, three-months-old boy is given intravenous antibiotics on a ward
Muhammad, a three-month-old boy, is given intravenous antibiotics on a ward at District Headquarters Hospital in Muzzafargarh. Muhammad and his family were evacuated from Gujrat town
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Pakistan Pregnant Women: Muhammad, three-months-old boy is given intravenous antibiotics on a ward
Muhammad was brought to the hospital with diarrhoea, vomiting, high fever and breathing difficulties
Photograph: Jason Tanner/Save the Children
Pakistan Pregnant Women: Imtiaz and her cousin Shenaz gave birth to boys two days ago, Muzzafargarh
Imtiaz holds her two-day-old baby boy. She and her cousin, who has also just given birth, fled their village of Wanpitafi in the night and walked 20km route to escape the floodwaters. Imtiaz also has a five-year-old girl and a two-year-old-son. She says both are constantly asking for drinking water and have no toys or clothes. The family is surviving on food donated by nearby camps
Photograph: Jason Tanner/Save the Children
Pakistan Pregnant Women: Flooding in the district of Muzzafargarh
Four pregnant women, displaced from the town of Qasba Gujrat by flooding, sit by the roadside near Muhammad Musa in the Muzzafargarh district, south Punjab. Nasreen, 22, Zareena, 20, Slama, 29, and Rehana, 24, have few possessions and no shelter. They rely on food and water donated by passing motorists
Photograph: Jason Tanner/Save the Children
Pakistan Pregnant Women: Families displaced by flooding sleep at the side of the road
Families prepare to sleep in a makeshift camp at the roadside near Tagan Khuh. Residents of outlying villages in Muzzafargarh district in south Punjab are still being forced out of their homes by floodwaters
Photograph: Jason Tanner/Save the Children
Pakistan Pregnant Women: A Government Boys School now flood relief camp in Munda Chowk, Pakistan
A government boys school acts as a flood relief camp in Munda Chowk. Doctors working at the camp estimate that 5,000 people have arrived in two weeks. Food is prepared in field kitchens and clean water supplied for people displaced by floods
Photograph: Jason Tanner/Save the Children
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