Edition Contents
Each Pregnant Magazine edition covers several topics. CLICK titles to read the articles. To choose another edition, scroll to the bottom of this page. Enjoy!
List of articles in this edition
Cutting your child’s hair
Here’s how to do it It was Baby G’s first haircut at the barber’s. Sam, his dad, did not know what to anticipate. Normally, Baby G’s mother had taken the responsibility of cutting his hair. Now that he had turned two years, the parents felt it was about time he got his first official haircut.…
Junk- Striking it out of your house
One downside of modern living and changing lifestyle is obesity resulting from lack of activity and unhealthy eating habits in children. Research findings indicate that obesity in children has reached epidemic levels in the developed countries and the third world is quickly catching on with this trend. As children grow, their bodies need to be nourished with…
Proper Hygiene
Key to keeping skin disease at bay Much as you already know that your baby’s skin is the largest body organ, it is one of the most important parts because it covers and protects everything inside your baby’s body. Without it, his muscles, bones and internal organs would be hanging out and exposed. Apart from…
Malaria – it starts very small but…
In the dead of the night, we wake up to a familiar yet very annoying buzzing sound. We pull our covers closer to ourselves in an effort to redeem ourselves from this state, and after a while, we drift off to sweet slumber, completely unaware of the covers we hold so tightly. Then, the unwelcome parasite…
Weaning time-Kiddies Menus
Your baby has just started eating solid food. So what should you as a parent prepare so as to become a super chef to a special little customer? There are plenty of options one can create to tease a little ones palette. A fruity yoghurt is a delicious and nutritious first food for babies Banana…
Adopting a child-the gestation…
Though you may long for the experience of birthing a child, the real experience of fulfillment lies in pouring yourself into their little lives and seeing what your care produces. Michelle Mckinney Hammond – Foster Mother of Nicole and Elsie. You may be in the category that finds adoption as good as fiction. Locally, we…
Diary of a first time mum
Sylvia Mugambi graced Pregnant Issue 17 cover together with her twin sister, Connie Mugambi. She was blessed with a baby girl on the 20th of October, 2008. She tells us of her experience as a new mother. My due date was 30th of October. I had made up my mind on having a C-section. In…
To pierce or not
Baby ears There was something spectacular about four months old baby Angel that you could not put a finger on. But if you got more keen, you would see that it was about a glimmer, some preciseness, some metal—and Alas! The earrings! And no matter what angle you looked at them from, they gave the…
Bringing Up Shanice
Charlene’s Baby Diary Charlene Wangare talked to Rebecca Njoki and gave an account of how she is bringing up her gal, Shanice Wanjiru. ‘Shanice was born on 2 December, 2006. It turned out to be a very difficult day for me. I was in labour for 17 straight hours before the doctors induced me. Afterwards,…
Is it just my ‘foetus’ or my baby – a word on abortion
‘Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use violence to get what they want’, advised an old lady from Calcutta famed as Mother Theresa. Perhaps that was the reckoning of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) when they included a clause in the revised harmonized draft constitution stating that…
More Editions
