Celebrating midwives, motherhood

By Njoki Karuoya

For every woman, a midwife is a very important person. She is the one person who can make the childbearing experience extremely memorable or extremely traumatic. Sadly, the stories that keep hitting the media is of women being mistreated by midwives — how they berate the pregnant women in labour for being so difficult in pushing out the infant while they had fun making it. These are really cruel sentiments that hurt to the core when you are scared, frantic and in excruciating pain.