Tagata Pasifika

The Pacific voice on
New Zealand television
since 1987

Tagata Pasifika

The Pacific voice on
New Zealand television
since 1987

TAGATA PASIFIKA: Samoan mother with brittle bone disease struggles to look after her baby

Luisa Saupo is around a metre tall and has brittle bone disease. She found out last year she is expecting her first child and travelled to New Zealand to give birth. She is torn between giving up her baby for her mother to raise or returning to Samoa where it will be a struggle for her to hold her new son.

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