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So, Mum was telling me a few stories about when I was born.
I was born inside a hospital on a cold December morning in 1997. The midwives who delivered me kept on making remarks about me being a "big, strong and healthy baby".
Dad asked for the Adhan and Iqamah to be read into my ears shortly after my birth. The guy who did it was doing it to some other newborns in the ward.
Mum was very surprised that I came out as a big baby, but she told me I liked to tickle and kick about in her belly when I was inside her womb and that I was quite heavy to carry.
But the treatment from midwives (all ethnicities) towards other babies was odd. They used to always want to take me outside to be cradled and played with when she wanted to sleep, which made a lot of the other mothers in the ward, particularly white mothers, angry. Mum overheard the white mothers talking to their white husbands about "the pretty, mixed baby boy with rosy cheeks always getting preferential treatment by the midwives". The white families just kept staring at mum and dad coldly.
Meanwhile my parents got on very well with the other ethnic parents in the ward who kept commenting on how big and strong I looked.
I got circumcised about two weeks after I was born and mum said I cried a lot on the day I was cut, out of pain, but calmed down a lot when I was healing on subsequent days. She said I had a huge crying voice.
After all of that, she told me I was a very pleasant, obedient and calm baby who liked to play and eat.
Dad asked for the Adhan and Iqamah to be read into my ears shortly after my birth. The guy who did it was doing it to some other newborns in the ward.
Mum was very surprised that I came out as a big baby, but she told me I liked to tickle and kick about in her belly when I was inside her womb and that I was quite heavy to carry.
But the treatment from midwives (all ethnicities) towards other babies was odd. They used to always want to take me outside to be cradled and played with when she wanted to sleep, which made a lot of the other mothers in the ward, particularly white mothers, angry. Mum overheard the white mothers talking to their white husbands about "the pretty, mixed baby boy with rosy cheeks always getting preferential treatment by the midwives". The white families just kept staring at mum and dad coldly.
Meanwhile my parents got on very well with the other ethnic parents in the ward who kept commenting on how big and strong I looked.
I got circumcised about two weeks after I was born and mum said I cried a lot on the day I was cut, out of pain, but calmed down a lot when I was healing on subsequent days. She said I had a huge crying voice.
After all of that, she told me I was a very pleasant, obedient and calm baby who liked to play and eat.
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