For This Child, I Prayed.

On Pregnancy and Childbirth

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…