When Catherine Owinga, a nurse in Nairobi, was born in the late 1970s Kenyan women were giving birth to an average of almost eight children each. Today, that figure is just above three.
“People are getting educated, and that changes perceptions about childbirth,” said Owinga, who manages a busy branch of Jacaranda Maternity in Nairobi’s crowded lower-middle-class district of Umoja, part of a chain of private but low-cost maternity health clinics.
“People say, ‘I want to have my own money, I want a career, I want to be empowered. So tell me about giving birth later’,” Owinga said over the din of music and traffic from the street below.
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