“Namatovu: How I Conceived in Just One Week After Years of Childlessness and a Marriage on the Brink of Divorce”

My name is Margaret Namatovu, a 33-year-old woman from Mukono, Uganda. For more than six years of marriage, my greatest struggle was being childless. In our culture, people see a woman without children as incomplete, and I carried that shame every single day.

I went to different hospitals with my husband. Doctors carried out scans, gave me medicines, and told us to be patient. But month after month, year after year, nothing improved. My periods came right on schedule, and each time I wept in silence. Friends who had married after me were already mothers of two or three children. Some even mocked me, saying I was cursed.TO READ MORE, TAP HERE