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Celebrating birth 24
My labor started on 5th May 2009 at night. I went to my doctor’s clinic on the 6th May and he told me I was 3 cm dilated and I needed to check myself into hospital. After that clinic, I went to the office to hand over and from there I went to the hospital,…
Stretchmarks – Question and Answer
With an expectant Angela Mukiri When was the first time you discovered you had stretch-marks? While I was a teenager, I discovered stretch-marks on my arms and thighs but did not mind them, because they were a shade lighter than my skin tone. There was none on my abdomen. At what stage of pregnancy did…
One too early, another too late-both dangerous
I was doing one of my final rounds to make sure my patients were okay before I signed out. In the last bed lay Monica, an obviously happy thirty-five-year-old house-help and now a single mother of three contentedly suckling the youngest. She motioned that I sit as she needed to tell me her story. I…
My precious gift
The unsettling sound of nauseous vomiting woke me up with a start. Who on earth was retching so loud, rousing me from sleep? I wondered as my hands groped under the covers to get hold of my wife, Panda. The answer was imminent when I padded an empty space on my left side; is that…
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…
First Word 20
Hi! As I ponder down memory lane, I marvel at the energy my mother had; looking after five small children, who were, by today’s standards, quite a handful. I still cannot fathom how she managed. I have two of my own, .yet sometimes they can be overwhelming. It appears that the never ending task of…
Celebrating birth 10
This is a legacy edition story. True stories of past pregnancies in yester days (or years), as published in Pregnant Magazine. Celebrating birth 10 ‘It’s a moment of Joy,’ Says Rose Kimotho Rose Kimotho is ecstatic after the safe delivery of her son, Master Gichina Nginyo. Nginyo, whose father is Paul Nginyo, weighed 2:83 kilograms…
