"But no amount of persuasion could convince the soldiers to let the 28-year-old woman pass. "I was very afraid that the baby would die," she remembers. "It was so cold. I kept trying to hold [the baby] back." Benan had no option but to rest in the back seat, waiting for the gate to open at its normal time. She felt the baby pressing down, but her mother-in-law told her to hold on and tried to cover her legs...."