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List of articles in this edition
My Honeymoon Baby
My Honeymoon Baby Painless childbirth is many pregnant women’s desire. But there are exceptions. Naomi Murage desires a natural childbirth, where she will get to feel the pangs of labour before entering the joyful world of motherhood. She tells Elizabeth Ombati how pregnancy has brought immense courage and strength into her world. The happiness I…
Habida Moloney – my million dollar album
I caught up with this diva in a well-known coffee spot where we engaged in a warm and pleasant banter. ‘My passion has always been singing since my primary school days. In high school, my friends and I formed a theater group where we would sing and act,’ she reminisces. With time, her fervour for…
Coping strategies during labour
In the previous edition of Pregnant, Lillian Karanja, a Lamaze instructor at Aga Khan University Hospital discussed how a pregnant woman can tell when labour sets in. In this issue, she looks at coping strategies that help the pregnant woman successfully go through the labour process. One Lamaze philosophy that strongly supports these strategies is…
Ms Mysterious
Women are not only beautiful, I but interestingly strange as well. A little boy’s love for the mother is jealously guarded in a native sense. Viewed by scholars as the Oedipus complex, this relationship is full of admiration and respect on the part of the boy and it is the foundation that determines many a…
Rejection in Pregnancy
Comment by Grace Ojiambo Executive Director, Crisis Pregnancy Ministries, Nairobi. JUNE’S story may be familiar to some of us. As you read it, you could probably identify with her. Many women who have a crisis pregnancy go through horrifying times during and after the pregnancy which they didn’t really have to go though. Most such…
Dear Doctor ‘P’ 14
Send your questions to: pregnant@integral-advisory.com answers are provided jointly by our team of doctors Our Team of Experts Dr. Blasio Omuga Lecturer, School of Nursing Sciences, University of Nairobi Consultant Obstetrician/Gynaecologist Based at Doctors’ Plaza, Clinic No. 18. Kenyatta National Hospital Dr. David Kiragu Consultant Obstetrician/Gynaecologist Based at KAM Health Services IPS Building, 1st Floor,…
Right in the smack of it…
Anne Wambua continues with her story on the quest for another child. She is beginning to think that she should always be pregnant! ‘You are taking shape.’ he says. I am wearing a new top that somehow seems to accentuate my increasingly bulging tummy. ‘That is not funny.’ I tell him. I am not amused…