Just saying

It was almost one year since Jackie gave birth to her beautiful baby girl. The baby daddy had not yet seen this baby or done anything for her. In desperation, Jackie called him for assistance since she was going through a rough patch in her life; she was jobless and could hardly pay her bills.  Her baby Daddy disappointed her. He did not respond to her pleas. “I don’t have money!” he said. There was a time in Jackie’s life when she had all the money. She led a very comfortable life. She did not lack anything. But you see life changes. You can never know what tomorrow holds. If someone told Jackie that she would become a single mother and jobless, with no source of income, she could have laughed it off because she had never pictured herself without a source of income let alone being a single mother. Jackie did not despair; she made one decision to make sure that her daughter never lacks anything. She went down on her knees and poured out her heart and hurt to God. She cri...

It was right at New Year when Donna discovered she was expectant. She had mixed feelings. She did not know whether to be happy or not. She had just broken up with her fiancé two weeks to their wedding day. She was afraid to share the news with anyone since she did not want to be judged. She kept it to herself. As we all know, pregnancy is one of those things you cannot keep as a secret for long. As the weeks passed, she started experiencing a lot of discomfort. As far as she could remember, this kind of discomfort was not linked to any of the pregnancy symptoms she knew. She visited the ante-natal clinic. Upon check-up, she was referred to a gynaecologist who discovered she had fibroids. It was also at that moment that she was told that her baby had a fifty-fifty chance of survival. Donna became devastated. She realised that she actually wanted the child no matter what other people thought about her. She was ready to face whatever was going to come her way as long as she...