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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...

Hello Crushes... Welcome to another awesome Monday on the Nickicripses blog!  I was recently called upon to speak to a group of young girls on abortions and it's consequences, a topic I found rather interesting and eager to deliver due to the recent happenings around me at the time I was to deliver the talk. Fortunately, I ended up not talking to the girls on the said day because I was unavoidable absent but I have never stopped thinking about it since then..... Where have we gone wrong as a family, as parents,  as siblings, as pastors, or as friends? Long gone with the wind were the days when virginity was GOLDEN and It's so hard relating to this.. According to the WHO statistics, adolescent pregnancies remains a major contributor to maternal and infant mortality and to the cycle of ill health and poverty.  Every year some 3 million girls aged 13 - 19 undergo unsafe abortions and babies born to these adolescent mothers face a substantially higher risk of d...