A mother who fled from Ukraine gave birth to a baby girl nearby

Mom Liudmyla, little Irina Vita, and dad Igor were welcomed in Italy and now they are fine, away from the bombs of war

Liudmyla is a 23-year-old Ukrainian mother: she fled the war and gave birth to a baby girl at the Maggiore Hospital in Lodi, a few kilometres from me; the little one weighs 3,750 kilos by 51 centimetres and is called “Irina Vita ”, which means“ peace of life ”.

It happened right nearby, near Milan, and it is a great joy, news that gives hope in these hard times.

The mother and the baby are fine. This “blue and yellow” ribbon, like the colors of the Ukrainian flag, was celebrated throughout the clinic ward, where the staff keep repeating that the little girl is beautiful.

Liudmyla arrived in Italy from Ukraine in early March after a long and difficult journey she had to face alone, with her baby bump, along the western part of Ukraine.

The girl left on February 25, 2022, the day after the start of the war with the attack by Putin’s Russia: she, in the eighth month of pregnancy, immediately decided that she could not stay, because she had to shelter from the bombs and violence her life and above all that of the daughter she had in her womb.

The chronicles tell that the young woman left her city Ivano-Frankivs’k — about a hundred kilometres from Lviv — on foot, heroically walking for about 200 kilometres.

So she crossed the border with Poland and reached her husband, with who then headed for the Old Boot where his mother is.

To be exact, Irina Vita was born on Saturday 26 March, at 10.42 pm, and simply by being born, she has already made the world a better place.

Liudmyla’s adventure was told by the Maggiore hospital in Lodi in a long post on social networks. Its history is also yet another fine example of the all-Italian ability to welcome and help people in difficulty.