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| Nairobi’s mum tearfully recalled carrying and burying her baby |
No parent should ever bury their son or daughter, but a mother has recalled a heart-rendering moment. Nairobi’s mum tearfully recalled carrying and burying her baby. Maureen Vihenda has emotionally narrated the day she lost her newborn following an altercation with her husband. All he wanted were children, Vihenda The woman grieving the death of her baby said her husband and co-wives were also mistreating her.Speaking to TUKO.co.ke Vihenda recalled telling her husband she was pregnant when her second-born was only three. “He said all he wanted in that house were children. After a while, the man became unbearable,” Vihenda said, referring to the abuse she faced. How much did morgue ask to bury Vihenda’s baby? She recalled finding herself in the hospital after her husband landed blows on her while advanced in her pregnancy. “The child survived for three weeks before passing away. The man never even set foot in the hospital. He told me to ask the morgue how much they would charge to bury the baby. We were charged KSh 5000, but my mum told me to take my child to her, and she’d bury it herself. The people at the morgue told me there was no need to pay because they had seen the struggle I had gone through with the baby since it was in the nursery. We should use the KSh 5,000 to travel to Western. They prepared the baby and gave it to me as I gave one of the ladies who had accompanied me,” she remembered. Who buried Maureen Vihenda’s baby? She was asked to remain strong and not emotional lest the police get a whiff of what was going on, but she said she had cried until she became weak. Subscribe to watch new videos The Nairobi woman said the plan worked as they arrived home safe and sound and delivered the baby to her mum. “My mother received the baby and dressed it in the clothes it was to be buried in. She had even prepared a coffin, and so we buried the baby at night at our home,” she narrated painfully.