It is quite risky asking a busy gynaecologist to be your guest speaker, I realised in horror just before our Orphan Fund Ladies Tea last Friday.
This dawned on me upon meeting a very pregnant lady at a cocktail party two weeks earlier.
“When did you say you were due?” I asked nervously, counting the days on my fingers and landing awkwardly close to our event. But it was too late to do anything but pray that all the mothers-to-be in Ballito would knyp for just a little longer.
Thankfully my prayers were answered and Dr Nombusa Mthethwa was able to grace a sold-out Waterberry Coffee Shoppe with her story of real-life trauma and struggle during the pandemic. She was inspiring!
Watching her speak it dawned on me that 6 years ago – exactly to the day – I had been with the good doctor in a much more intimate setting: the birth of our first-born son.
What a coincidence indeed. It took me right back to that surgery. Daniël was breech and he was not turning around for nobody.
Dr Mthethwa had waited until a week after his due date because I was so desperate to deliver naturally. But caesarean section it was to be and we were beyond grateful for Daniël’s safe delivery.
I suspect a great many of the women there last Friday would have been her clients at one time or another.
Having your first child can be nerve-wracking at the best of times.
I can only imagine what it must have been like to be expecting during lockdown last year.
Dr Mthethwa shared how many women had to go into labour alone, without husbands or partners. If you are one of those mothers, I salute you.
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My hubby and I have a new favourite series. This one isn’t on Netflix. All you need is to download the app and the series is free.
The Chosen is the first multi-season series about the life of Christ, and season one was the highest crowd-funded TV series or film project of all time (Say what?).
Season 2 was launched on Easter Sunday and there’s a new episode released every Wednesday.
Series creator Dallas Jenkins wanted to create a series about Christ that could be “binge watched”.
I think he’s nailed it. If you have not seen it you are missing out.
Not only does the Courier come out on a Wednesday, now you get to look forward to this too.
