"Sunita held her baby for 4 seconds before they took him away"

Sunita Chavan had waited a very long time for this moment. She had felt every kick. She had whispered to baby every night while she stitched clothes on her sewing machine, the only source of income her family has.

But when her baby came on 23rd April 2026 — ten weeks too early — he came too small, too soon, and too fragile to cry.

His lungs had not finished developing. He could not breathe on his own. He was rushed to a secondary incubator, then transferred to Borneo Hospital in Nashik, where the NICU could give him what he needed — a ventila