Courageous heart patient Wanjiku is now a proud mother

Wanjiku, the heart patient who was determined to carry her pregnancy to term despite her severe condition is now a proud mother of a little precious angel, Baby Purity who weighs 2.7kg, born in the early hours of November 26 without any of the anticipated complications.

About three weeks ago, we brought you the inspiring story of Wanjiku, the 23-year-old first time expectant mother with an acquired severe heart disease who defied doctors and kept her pregnancy. She has been on follow-up in the heart clinic for over seven years. Despite being discouraged from getting pregnant, she indeed presented with pregnancy at seven weeks with features of the heart problem more aggravated, leading to a stroke that caused paralysis on her right side. She could neither walk nor talk. A joint team of heart specialists, obstetrician gynaecologists, social scientists and other experts concurred that the pregnancy posed a grave danger to her life and should be terminated in the interest of mothers health.