fistula

Not always, but that pressure from the fetal calvarium or the bones of the head compress the bladder or bowel against the hard bony surfaces of the pelvis.

Fistula is a fancy medical term for hole.

So you develop a hole between your urinary system or your bowels and the vagina.

So women leak stool or urine.

Yes.

Fistula and different things like that.

So she hopefully is going to send us in a voice note to talk about what they do and how it permeates back home.

But for the sake of this conversation, we're going to focus on how it affects us in the diaspora.

Andrew Browning, because his auntie was a missionary in Ethiopia, he went to visit her, but as a young kid was called, he felt to be a missionary and then to be a missionary doctor.

And what Andrew Browning came to discover and to lean into was the fact that there are many women, probably two million women in Africa, statistically they can only work it out, who suffer from fistula.

Fistula is when a baby gets caught in the...

Basically, what's that word? Uterus gets locked in childbirth, and the baby's head is pushing against all that's around that in the pelvis.

And basically what happens is the tissue dies.