While many women experience healthy natural deliveries, some might need extra help to get the process going when the mother shows no signs of labour on her due date
Recurrent pregnancy loss is manageable
April 28, 2021 A pregnant woman
Losing a pregnancy can be stressing, but repeated miscarriages can leave permanent emotional gashes to the couple struggling to have a baby.
Frustration grows deeper usually due to the hardly accessible professional evaluation and treatment because there are few specialized clinics dedicated to recurrent pregnancy loss.
Three years ago, a couple visited Women’s Hospital International and Fertility Centre, Kampala, seeking remedy to frequent miscarriages. The woman had miscarried three times, losing five babies (two sets of twins and a single baby) in 12 years.
With the support of her husband, they sought medical control in vain. In the last miscarriages, her uterus was removed to save her life. The exasperated duo lost hope of ever having a biological child since the ‘house’ where the baby grows was no more.
Fibroids could hinder you from conceiving
January 13, 2021 Written by Arthur Matsiko
While I was checking through records at my workplace, I stumbled across the topic of fibroids.
I read through many cases, but one stood out. This woman, whose identity I must protect, visited our fertility hospital a few years ago. Her story is intriguing because she came when her abdomen was so big that she and her colleagues thought she was pregnant.
Truth to the matter she was not. She remained confused because there were no signs of pregnancy. When I interacted with the doctor who treated her, he said a fibroid that weighed about five kilograms was removed from her uterus. Startling as this sounds, fibroids are an increas
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On the 14th day of October 2010 a 34 year woman died at the Women’s Hospital International, Kampala at the beginning of a surgical operation to remove a single fibroid from her uterus. The procedure used was laparoscopic surgery and a doctor from Nairobi was specially hired to carry out the procedure. The doctor was not registered, as required by law, to practice medicine in Uganda and neither did he get a temporary practicing certificate.