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The birth of a child comes with the best feelings ever.. A considerable amount of women yearn for the pangs of childbirth while others would gladly opt for a C-sections... For most women, this feeling spurs from various factors but for some, their choice of a c-section is mainly due to the presumed expansion of the vagina walls which makes sex with their partners lack that enjoyable penetrative effect....  ''I need to stay tight so he does not seek this pleasure from another..'' says Mrs Lola Brown I'm sure you all know that every time you have a C-section, the procedure is always more complicated than the last and after 3 cesarean sections, it is termed risky to undergo a vaginal delivery. These complications arise due to the bands of scar-like tissue which arises after each abdominal surgery and their formation varies from one c-section to another... I have always wondered what the post -delivery healing process would be like as I hear it differs greatly...

A child is a blessing and a gift from God regardless of the sex but this is not the case in most homes. The preference of the male child to the female child has posed a lot of problems in most African homes and this is a very harmful practice which we must all desist from. These practices have constituted a grave burden on women in most developing countries as they have become victims of these cultural and religious bigotry. At the birth of a son, the proud father spreads his feathers like a peacock...He now has a child to carry on his name! He can now stand tall among his age mates..His voice would now be heard.... The child's mother rejoices also..She is so thankful for the gift of a male child..Now she would be recognized by her in-laws... Now she has a say.. Now her voice would be heard... The male child thus grows up in the family knowing how priceless he is! How indispensable he is! He is treated differently from his female siblings...   This gap between genders kee...

With a torn heart I wish to post this blog today. The title of this post spurs from the recent happenings in the country  today. Women with unfulfilled destinies lying in cold blood! Children been forced to live without their mothers.. Kids made to watch their mum's go through the most inhumane treatment from men they recognize as their father.. The stigma never leaves... The memory lingers...                '' Mummy is not waking up ...! Mummy is not waking up!!...'' They continuously pull on her clothes..tears flowing non-stop from their eyes! Fear beyond all telling builds up within them... it all seems like a dream.. they watch her eyelids hoping for a flicker of hope and yet she lies there motionless.. while her husband flees before the break of dawn...                               Love that once blossomed becomes nothing but a...

Hello Mums... Welcome to another awesome Monday on the blog... We are in love with our expecting mums and so we would love to share some tips that would keep our mums  healthy throughout the waiting period.... Pregnancy is a 9 months journey and you sure want to keep healthy on this trip and even after wards. Having a baby is something most of us women-and even men look forward to. This period requires extra care of yourself as what you do or do not do will most times not affect just you but your unborn baby as well. Having being on this trip thrice, here are some thoughts I will like to share… 1.       Early Visit to your health care provider: This is important as an early check up can prevent an unwanted unforeseen circumstance if there is any. An early detection of abnormal location of the foetus can be handled with less complication. An early scan, the radiologist will say, gives a more accurate Expected delivery date (EDD) than the later sca...

Hey love... Happy Holidays..... its another blog day and I'll be talking about the girl child's first visit to her gynecologist.  In the previous blog post we discussed extensively on the need to raise the girl child with a lot of caution and utmost care and I made mention of the need for her first visits to the pediatrician gynecologist while she is between 13 - 15 years of age.  This in my opinion is very important for two main reasons: Firstly, as a way of developing a bond with her  doctor (gynecologist) and secondly as an avenue to help her know more about her body.  I usually would recommend a female gynecologist for these checkups but your discretion would be most important - Simply get a gynecologist whom you are most comfortable with and one whom you can trust but remember as always that in making this selection, her opinion counts.. Most mums disagree on the need to have their babies visit a gynecologist at their early adolescent stages because the...