For This Child, I Prayed.
On Pregnancy and Childbirth
10 min readApr 30, 2024
Ten fingers, ten toes, and a head full of hair.
Flutters became kicks and then loud cries…
After reading Buchi Emecheta’s Joys of Motherhood in secondary school, I remember thinking, “If motherhood is so hard, why are people clamoring for it?” Women are constantly hounded about having children, and more children, despite…