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 MATARA, Sri Lanka (AP) - It was Oct. 11, 2004, and the world looked beautiful to K.M.G. Prinsika. She had given birth to her third child, a wide-eyed girl she and her husband named Pushmi Moonesha. The happy parents told the gynecologist that they'd had enough children, and it was time for Prinsika to be sterilized. On Dec. 26, 2004, the world became a horror.
The Asian tsunami six months ago took away Pushmi Moonesha — "blooming flower" in the Sinhalese language — and the couple's 7-year-old son, Panitha. Their 11-year-old daughter, Pujitha, survived.
Now, Prinsika, 31, is joining many other Sri Lankan mothers in seeking a reversal of her tubal ligation to allow her to have more babies.
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