Seated on a sofa in her Kariobangi South house, a woman, identified as Mary Wanjiru, 40, adjusts little Samuel Baraka on her lap. She recounts being operated on seven times in her quest for motherhood. Samuel is the last of the three boys she has had after four devastating uterine ruptures.

After Wanjiru picked herself up, Nerea told her she thought scientifically, if the uterus had had four ruptures, it wasn’t capable of carrying a baby. Nerea says;

I told her to ride on the faith of her husband not to adopt a child. After praying, the husband came and took her home. I couldn’t understand why she kept rupturing.

FIFTH TIME LUCKY

Wanjiru became pregnant again in July 2013. “I told God I will stay in the house to see what He can do, and I only went to KNH at 38 weeks pregnant to deliver! ” Wanjiru, a staunch Redeemed Gospel Church faithful since 2011, says. The doctors were shocked to see her. After being scanned, Wanjiru was assigned a ward for a CS.

Nerea saw Wanjiru again on a Thursday in March 2014. Because Wanjiru had come for delivery only, she was immediately admitted in the ward. Wanjiru was immediately taken to the labour ward, where she had a successful delivery.

She went on to have two more successful pregnancies. The second baby, Israel Kihara, was born in January 2016, and the third was Samuel, who was born on April 4 this year.

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To reflect on their resilience and gratefulness, Wanjiru and her husband gave their children symbolic biblical names: Ephraim, Israel and Samuel.

Credits: The Star