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Last year in May, right in the middle of a pandemic, Elsie Akoo discovered she was pregnant with her second child. But this pregnancy, unlike her first one, was not smooth sailing.
“I was always in and out of hospital. I was in constant pain too and if I wasn’t under treatment for a blood infection, it would be for a yeast infection, blinding headaches or even diarrhoea and constant vomiting,” she says.
Nonetheless, she thought that these were all typical pregnancy pains and wasn’t especially worried.
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