“I’m sorry, Ma’am, but you’ve miscarried.” These are the last words you want to hear when you’re 21 weeks pregnant. Still Samantha Nyweba’s doctors had been trying to prepare her for the possibility that she would not carry to term. It hadn’t been an easy pregnancy.
“When I found out I was pregnant, I went to Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital for my check-up,” the 39-year-old recalls. “They gave me a referral letter to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto to terminate my pregnancy. They said I had an open uterus. I was always bleeding and constantly in pain.”
Samantha sat with that letter in her mother’s home in Westbury, trying to decide what to do. “My mom said God’s will
