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And Then Came Warona!

It is still very early in the year, so Happy New Year is in order. A year ago, I welcomed an absolutely beautiful and adorable baby girl , who m  “the aunties” have aptly named Warona  (a Southern African name meaning Ours) . The journey leading to her birth and the 12 months after her birth have  been   one of the most i nteresting period s  in my life so far. If you are like some Ghanaians (I daresay Africans) you would have done your calculations by now. Yes, I conceived  during the early days  of the COVID-19 pandemic when restrictions and lockdown measures were the order of the day. Suffice it to say I didn’t observe social distancing when I should have (that’s just on a lighter note). Apart from nausea that lasted for a greater part of the  40-week journey (we really ought to stop thinking of pregnancy as a 9-month event), I was lucky to have a relatively easy pregnancy. The hustle and bustle that characterized our daily lives was down to...