Mofoluwake Jones has two children, but their entries into the world could not be more different. Mofoluwake’s first child was born in Nigeria, a nation with a cultural tradition of women suffering silently in childbirth.
“I guess that’s how we were all programmed to see labour,” says Mofoluwake. “It seems we are yet to adopt the mindset that women do not have to go through hell just to birth their babies.”
Mofoluwake’s second baby was born five years later, by which time she was living in Canada. “All the health workers were courteous, they took their time to explain what they needed to do on me and why. For each cervix examination, my consent was sought before they went ahead to examine me,” she says.
