research shows that a mother who hasupport during thi perio is less likely to abandon her baby.hers are provided with food, accommodation, and whatever their babies need free of sinc the aim is to help them become self-supporting individuals, they are responsible for taking care of their babies and the housework. they also receive vocational training, such as sewing or computer skills. as work options for women are limited in astana, the idea is for them to acquire skills that will help them fine wo. find work. >> sairash is 30 years old. she come from a town that is about four hours by train from astana. she was working as a cleaner in the capital, but was alone and at the end of her tether when she gave birth to her baby. the father who had promised to marry her had come to astana to work. he pretended to be single when, in fact, he had a wife back in the country. >> translator: i met her at a maternity hospital a couple of days before the new year. she said that she had been ditched by her boyfriend. her baby was born prematurely, at seven months, and had been in an incubator