infertility

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Infertility is estimated to affect as many as 186 million women worldwide, especially in developing countries where it remains an understudied phenomenon. About 800 and more abortions are carried out in Uganda due to unintended pregnancies and of these about 1,200 babies die. A study in 2010 by the WHO and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation estimated that 48.5 million couples are affected by infertility. Many women have miscarried and have experienced total failures in conceiving. The whole process of struggling to become a parent comes with stress and depression. One month at a time, every woman’s cycle starts over and one wonders to herself, will this be the one? Will the baby finally come this month? If not when will it happen? It’s not easy to predict. And for every woman that has been trying for a while, with the ups and downs the situation gets harder.

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Sarah is a 29 year old female living in Bweyogerere Uganda.She lives a single life after a divorce 15 months back. She had been married for 5 years and after a long busy day at work she returned home to an empty house without notification following constant fights and disagreements because of her failure to conceive due to blocked fallopian tubes.

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“After three miscarriages, I was blessed with a beautiful and sweet baby girl called Haddi who was born at seven months because the size of my fibroid couldn't let her stay longer inside. oh the joy I felt! I wish you knew the tears of joy that I shed every single day I watched her in that incubator!” said Sarah with her red and swollen eyes, worn out from too much crying. “My baby died and later on I had a successful surgery for fibroids but Up To now I still pray for her, I have tasted the roughness of time. I have taken in whatever society has thrown at me. Look at me, I live, eat, sleep, pray and walk alone but I have to be strong and keep moving.”

 

This is a tale of hope, uncertainty, depression and a prayer of a woman trying to conceive. All Names  have been changed to protect her privacy and identity.

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