Asked how she felt in prison, refused access to a hospital as the birth of her child neared, Ibrahim said, "I was only thinking about my children and how I was going to give birth. I was mostly scared of giving birth in prison."  Ibrahim said she gave birth chained to the floor of her cell and could not open her legs 
 
 Meriam Ibrahim, the Christian Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for apostasy, has said the baby daughter she gave birth to while shackled to the floor of her prison cell could be disabled. Talking for the first time since she was released from prison last week – only to be detained as she and her family attempted to leave the country – Ibrahim, 27, said she gave birth in chains and could not open her legs. I couldn't even open my legs so the women had to lift me off the table.” 
 
 In this file image from an undated video Meriam Ibrahim, sitting next to her 18-month-old son Martin, holds her newborn baby girl as an NGO visits her in a room at a prison in Khartoum Ms Ibrahim said that doctors had told her the circumstances of her birth and treatment in prison meant her daughter had been left physically disabled, with potentially long-lasting consequences. “I don't know in the future whether she'll need support to walk or not.” 
 
 Ms Ibrahim remains in limbo at the US embassy in Sudan, after the authorities stopped her leaving the country over charges travel documents provided to her, her husband and two children were “forged”. They were arrested and detained for two days at Khartoum airport where the family was departing the country, a day after Sudan's Cassation Court overturned a death sentence against Ms Ibrahim and ordered her release. Her convictions, sentences and detention in Omdurman's women's prison while heavily pregnant and with her toddler son incarcerated alongside her caused international outrage. Ibrahim, the daughter of a Muslim man and a Christian woman, was convicted of apostasy despite insisting to the court that she had been brought up as a Christian since her father left the family when she was six. She was charged with adultery, because a Muslim woman's marriage to a Christian man is illegal in Sudan. "I've always been Christian," she told CNN. "I couldn't have been Muslim and not go back, with all the things they said and the way they treat me – with a different sheikh coming to speak to me every other time and women in prison saying all sorts of things like 'don't eat the nonbeliever's food' and calling me a Christian. "There was all this talk and even the officers in the prison would join (in)." Ibrahim spoke by phone to CNN from what she described as a safe place – the US embassy in Khartoum – following her detention at the city's airport two days after her convictions for apostasy and adultery were quashed and she was released from prison. Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Services said that she had South Sudanese travel documents despite not being a citizen of South Sudan, and she was heading to the United States, which is not her native country. Ibrahim was accused of possessing forged travel documents, although South Sudan said it had issued the papers. She told CNN: “How can my paperwork be wrong? My paperwork came from the embassy. It's 100 per cent correct and it was approved by the South Sudan ambassador and the American ambassador.” 
 
 While in prison, Ms Ibrahim said she was abused and harassed by guards and other inmates over her faith, and visited by a series of different sheikhs trying to persuade her to convert. I was given the papers by the South Sudanese embassy because I deserve it. It's in my right to use the papers and have a South Sudanese passport because my husband is a South Sudanese citizen. He has an American passport and South Sudanese passport," she said. She described as "terrorizing" the way that Sudanese police officers took her and her husband, who uses a wheelchair, from the VIP departures hall as they waited to check in for their flight. "We were scared and wondering what was wrong. They locked us in that room for four to five hours and the whole time we were trying to figure out what the problem was," she said. "I can't even decide what I should do right now. I want to travel but at the same time I don't want to travel … There's a new problem every day about me leaving." But the state I'm in right now means that I'm forced to. “Something has happened to the baby,” she said. Meriam Ibrahim with her husband Daniel Wani US officials say diplomats are now trying to arrange for Ms Ibrahim and her family to depart from Sudan.
– "Something has happened to the baby," says Meriam Ibrahim, in her first recounting of giving birth to her daughter on the floor of a Sudanese prison cell. "I don't know in the future whether she'll need support to walk or not." Ibrahim is now in limbo at a safe house in Khartoum, worried that the child may suffer permanent physical disability, the Guardian reports. “I gave birth chained. Not cuffs but chains on my legs. I couldn't even open my legs so the women had to lift me off the table.” The 27-year-old—convicted for apostasy while eight months pregnant—was denied access to a hospital when she went into labor in prison last month. Doctors have told Ibrahim that her treatment in prison—she says guards and inmates harassed and abused her—could have had negative effects on the child, reports the Independent. Ibrahim has been freed once again after being detained at the airport as she and her husband tried to catch a flight to the US after her death sentence for refusing to renounce her Christianity was overturned. Ibrahim insists her travel documents are not forged as Sudanese officials have claimed. “How can my paperwork be wrong? My paperwork came from the embassy. It's 100% correct and it was approved by the South Sudan ambassador and the American ambassador,” she tells CNN. Ibrahim has been charged with falsifying documents; diplomats are working to get Ibrahim and husband Daniel Wani, who is a US and Sudanese citizen, out of Sudan.