More fascinating questions from our pregnancy diary ladies. We managed to get some fathers involved this time – lots of varied questions from them. We’re continuing to learn from these diaries and using the questions asked to inform the final edits to Pregnant Parents’ app content.
A. Faustina
1. Why is it that a pregnant woman will vomit seriously in the labor ward even though she did not vomit during pregnancy?
2. Sometimes after delivery, some babies vomit the same as the mother did?
3. Why is it that a pregnant woman can easily get annoyed?
4. Why is it that some pregnant women do not want the smell of petrol?
5. If you are pregnant, and are about to give birth, your whole body will be hot. Why is it so?
6. When you give birth, the baby’s body is always hot. Why is it so?
7. What kinds of food will you give to the child to ensure a healthy growth?
8. What kinds of food should a lactating mother eat to the make the child healthy?
9. When you are a nursing mother, they tell you not to eat rice. What is the reason for that?
10. When you give birth, they tell you not to drink cold water. Why is it so?
B. Doris
1. Why is it that when you are pregnant, you are not allowed to lie on your back?
2. When a baby gets to eight months, you are not allowed to give him/her T.Z because they say it will make he/she not able to walk?
3. Our mothers tell us not to eat mangoes when we give birth. Why is it so?
4. Why does a child react or cry when you throw it up knowing that it doesn’t know anything. Is it that the child knows about fear or death?
C. Abena
1. Why is it that during the month of December, there is always a lot of wind and dust all the place?
2. Why is it that there is a lot of cold during this period?
3. I have noticed that during the month of December–April, a lot of people get disease like CSM, T.B and whooping cough and people end up losing their lives. Why is it so?
D. Hellen
1. What is the new Flu, what are the signs and how can one protect him/herself from getting it?
2. What can I do so other people don’t get it?
3. In our local communities, people say it not advisable for a pregnant woman to eat fresh meat for the child will grow fat and will have to be operated upon during labor. Is this true or not in your own view and is it good for the pregnant woman to eat fresh meat and why?
4. What is night blindness and what can one do so that I don’t get it?
5. When a child is running diarrhea in my community, they tell us not to give the child water but the nurses tell us to give water. Why?
6. When a child has measles in my community, they tell us not to allow the child to sleep and also not to bath the child but the nurses say it is advisable to bath the child and let it sleep. Why?
E. Mavis
1. Why would a pregnant woman have swollen face and legs?
2. Why is it that when a woman is pregnant, she experience severe abdominal pains?
3. My child had convulsion when I gave birth. Why is it so?
4. My baby had sores in the tongue, and mouth but the drug given at the clinic did not work and I had to use local treatment (i.e. burn Neri, grind it apply it on the sores).
F. Ruby
1. What causes high fever? Is it a lot of thinking?
2. Can you please explain why twins are now common because it was said that twins were inherited?
3. May I know whether it is normal for a woman not to have her period in about six months or one to two years after giving birth and what is the cause?
G. Monica
1. There is a pregnant woman in my community who complains of joint pains and swollen legs. What is the cause of those pains?
2. There is a nursing mother here who complains of her baby having hot body, malaria and stomach pains. Can you tell me the cause?
H. Justice
1. What causes elephantiasis?
2. Has catarrh got a treatment?
3. What causes high blood pressure?
4. What are some of the food for one who has low sperm count?
5. Is it true that a man can have intercourse with an HIV woman without getting the disease?
6. People like taking paracetamol if they are to drink a lot of alcoholic drinks so as to reduce the effect of the alcohol. Is it right? What advice can you give?
7. People say that there are no drugs for the treatment of jaundice. Is that true?
8. How long does it take to show that one has HIV even if the person did not go for testing? I mean what are the sign and symptoms of it?
I. Oliver
1. Why do children usually have convulsion and the locals give marks on the baby’s body and face to stop it?
2. Why is it that when a child gets convulsion, a woman or the baby’s mother is not allowed to handle or hold the child?
3. Why do babies cry and have stomach upsets?
4. Why do pregnant women have loss of appetite and waist pains?
5. Some pregnant women have itchy bodies such that they can’t even bath especially in the night. Why is it so?
6. One woman has bodily pains in the third month of her pregnancy, what is the reason?
7. Some women frequently come to buy drugs for diarrhea all the time for the same child and the same sickness. What is the cause?
8. Some babies gain temperature in the night, coughs and cries a lot in the night. What is the reason?
9. There is a child in Gaani here who is just one month and four days old but has dysentery, is always hot and does not sleep in the night. What is the cause of that?
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