Child cerebral palsy inspired Susan’s Carevine Daycare
Susan’s journey of hope – she emerged from utter stress and misplaced hopes to find her calling and live victoriously as a parent facing child cerebral palsy. My name is Susan Njeri. I am many things but most importantly I am a woman, a mother to three wonderful children – Princess, Prince and Parsley – and wife…
Read MoreMaking adoption the first choice: Busting social myths that keep people from adopting
My adopted daughter senses who her mum is – and I cannot explain this mystery………… Some years ago in 2012, I adopted my first, and currently my only child. I chose to adopt as a single and young parent (at 28), simply because I felt I had room in my life to give love and…
Read MoreAdoption – Should I Should I Not?
I was worried for a long time that I was not qualified to parent a little girl………. I am a single young woman. I have decided to adopt a lovely little girl. I made that decision four years ago. But my baby isn’t home yet. Why? Because I am part of a society that believes…
Read MoreCancer and children – making their relationship easier
Cancer happens when a type of cell loses the control of its operations with other cells and grows in a way that the body cannot regulate. Different cancers have different symptoms, treatments, and outcomes, depending on the type of cell involved and the degree of the uncontrolled cell multiplication.The cells growing out of control ignore…
Read MoreWhen your child is neither Boy nor Girl
All humans are uniquely and differently created. The different facets and spectrums of gender and sexual identity has become an open narrative, given the existence of ambiguous sexual organs from birth. This is a story of the ripple effect of ignoring and neglecting this occurence.
Read MoreChildless? Letting another woman get pregnant on your behalf
Wandia and John had been trying to bear a child countless times, unsuccessfully. They had listened to every old woman’s folktales on fertility enhancement and would have visited a local mganga were it not for the good Lord forbidding it in His word. Then once, after months of drinking beetroot and amaranth—she believes that was…
Read MoreChildhood Diabetes
Did you know that children also get diabetes? Childhood diabetes is referred to as Type 1 diabetes. The body has an organ called the pancreas that produces insulin. Insulin is a hormone that ensures that glucose produced from the digested food we eat gets into the cells for growth and energy. When there is a…
Read MoreBreaking the Silence Around Adoption
“Are you not afraid that your adoption activism will stigmatize your child? What if she grows up and hates the fact that you are so outspoken about this, while she’d rather people not know she’s adopted?” A close (and pro-adoption) friend asked me this the other day, in the context of a longer conversation, and…
Read MoreGifted child – What to do with her
Nobel laureate and author Pearl S. Buck once said, ‘The truly creative minds in any field is no more than this: ….He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.’ This is one way of identifying a gifted child, who is not…
Read MoreHIV from mum to child
Safeguarding your baby It is a tragedy of immense proportions that thousands of unborn babies-about 40,000 to 50,000-risk being infected with HIV by their mothers every year, according to the Kenya National Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control Programme (NASCOP). The sad thing is that the unborn victims are as innocent as many mothers; most…
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