Ch enai Hove* (28), mother of one, was just over 26 weeks pregnant when she went into pre-term labour and delivered a premature baby. Doctors struggled to resuscitate the tiny baby who weighed only 1.2kg. Her baby lived for a day before succumbing. This was Chenai’s second premature baby. The previous one had been a year ago and the early labour occurred at the same time in her pregnancy. It was found that Chenai had an incompetent cervix due to injuries that occurred in her very first pregnancy and would need a cervical stitch to be put in place for subsequent pregnancies. In our society, pregnancy and delivering a baby is the very definition of womanhood. What happens when that seemingly straight-forward process goes wrong? How do you know if your pregnancy is high-risk? Is there anything you can do to prevent complications? What are the top signs women can look out for in their pregnancy? Although the majority of pregnancies are uneventful, sometimes complications do occur.
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