Bringing Forth New Life

Bringing Forth New Life is a poem by Sadako Kurihara written in August 1945 in Hiroshima after the city's Atomic bombings of [Hiroshima and Nagasaki|atomic bombing]. It tells the true story of a woman giving birth to a baby amongst the ruins, while the midwife dies of burns and exhaustion in the process. This poem was first published in March 1946 in Chugoku Shimbun. The baby was named Kazuko Kojima and is still living in Hiroshima as of 2023. The midwife was Umeyo Miyoshi.
Alternate English titles for the poem are We Shall Bring Forth New Life and 'Let Us Be Midwives!'''''