"Oh, that's very kind of you," Serena says. She's not usually one to accept charity – she'd spent so many years on her own – but here she doesn't have much of a choice. "I have some money that they've given me to buy the essentials, at least."

That she can't simply nurse has complicated things in a way that she wasn't prepared for. Not that she was prepared for any of this. Even back in the camp, she was supposed to have weeks before the baby was born. "I wish I had his bassinet from back home. I can't imagine finding anything like it here."