A Kisumu woman has narrated how new year celebrations on Tuesday night helped her to give birth without feeling any pain.
Rose Akinyi is among the 22 mothers who gave birth at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH ) in Kisumu on the night of Tuesday and Wednesday morning.
She says that her case was different from the normal ones, adding that the process went on smoothly after she was distracted by noises emanating from people ushering in 2020.
“By 11 pm, there was already a lot of noise from outside. I was so carried away by the songs and the drum beats outside that I could not feel the pains anymore. And when I went to the delivery room, everything went on smoothly,” Akinyi said as quoted by Standard.
She gave birth to her second-born, a son, 15 minutes to midnight.
This is as 2020 came in in style at the facility, which recorded yet another unique case of delivery, in the name of Roseline Adhiambo who have birth at exactly 00:00.
The 24-year-old, a housewife from Wang'ang'a village in Muhoroni is now a privileged mother as she can choose any of the two dates as her daughter's birthday.
"I think God wanted to give me a special gift. I will have to pick which of these days to be celebrating my daughter’s birthday,” Adhiambo told Standard reporters on Wednesday.
By 6 pm on Wednesday, 22 babies had been born and 7 other expectant mothers waiting to give birth in the labour wards, only days after medics in the county called off their strike.