You can stunt my growth but not my spirit

Elsie and mum

When Loise Wambugu and her husband Maina learnt that they were expecting their first child, they were ecstatic. And couldn’t wait to meet their baby. But six months into the pregnancy, they went for a routine prenatal examination, only to be told that there was something wrong with the baby. The fetus, they said, was not growing and seemed to have a growth on the neck.

‘’The doctors suggested we terminate the pregnancy because the baby could not survive outside the womb. But they changed their minds about the termination after a later examination revealed that the baby’s organs were functioning well.”