Pakistan, April 10 -- Zainab Kulsoom, a 27-year-old resident of Lotar village in Kohistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is in the ninth month of her sixth delivery, embracing the challenges of motherhood with five children.

Residing in a shared home with her husband's fourteen brothers, Kulsoom, along with two co-wives and a total of 16 children, occupies a single room. Despite being in the final days of her pregnancy, she tends to household chores, preparing meals, herding animals and grazing, illustrating the challenges she faces in the dawn of each day.

Kulsoom has given birth to two children at home without consulting a medical practitioner, while three others were born with the assistance of a local midwife.

Kulsoom, in an interview with th...