Dr Geoffrey Wango, a psychologist at the University of Nairobi says it is hard mourning a stillbirth, especially if you had announced the pregnancy on social media.
“It is a double tragedy. Even as you deal with child loss, you have to answer questions from people who knew about your pregnancy, but not the death of the baby. This is psychologically tormenting for the mother,” he says.
For one, the woman also has a lot of questions: Why me? What did I do or didn’t do? There are a lot of expectations if you are newly married.