How to deal with annoying questions from relas about the babybump

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As a little girl, you used to daydream about being a mother. Of course you’d be married to a handsome man and have four perfect babies, two boys and two girls. As you grew older, you hung on to the dream and always assumed when the time came, achieving that dream would be simple. One can therefore imagine the surprise when you got married at 26 and realised achieving that dream was difficult.

Besides the emotional challenges and the stress it added to your relationship, there was also and still is the social stigma that comes along with barrenness.