title: 'What if a baby comes?'
abstract: The most welcome sound Mariam Al Raqem has ever heard was the sound of running feet. At 11.30 one night she was startled by a noise outside her flat. There was no electricity, so with the aid of a torch, Mariam's son went to the door to investigate. 'Mummy, they're running away.' She could not believe the Iraqi army was fleeing Kuwait. But an hour later her neighbour came round to say it was true. Kuwait was free.