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Growth is a painful process

By Anne Mukei

Kenya: A close friend is expecting a baby. She has been looking forward to this, but now that it has happened, the joy that should accompany her pregnancy is missing. She is constantly sick, and her body ‘no longer belongs to her.’ After all the talk of how she would be talking to her baby bump from day one, what she is undergoing is a far cry from her fantasy.  

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