King Kaka’s wife cries out her health struggles

Kenyan rapper, King Kaka’s wife, Nana Owiti experienced high blood pressure during her second pregnancy and yet she was not aware till she was tested in hospital. To create awareness, she shared her experience through her Instagram page.

She wrote; “HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE I’m I the only one that has lost friends post partum? I know atleast 6 cases of new mothers that were just okay during pregnancy then at most 6weeks post partum they are gone! Now,when pregnant,most hospitals show a lot of concern for you and the bun in that human oven but little to no attention is shown to moms post partum.

  
 
 
 
 
 
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 HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE I’m I the only one that has lost friends post partum? I know atleast 6 cases of new mothers that were just okay during pregnancy then at most 6weeks post partum they are gone! Now,when pregnant,most hospitals show a lot of concern for you and the bun in that human oven but little to no attention is shown to moms post partum. Ata ukienda clinic mostly it’s the baby that gets checked sana. I feel like a lot of sensitization has to be made in hospitals to have them check new moms all through to the 3rd month after the baby. Why am I saying this? Apart from nausea and feeling tired during pregnancy,I had no complications whatsoever. No swollen feet no nothing.5 days after having my 2ns baby I developed Oedema-My ankles and feet became swollen and my face puffed up. King at some point made fun of me and said nakaa mtoi with the super round face 😆 I just thought it’s just prolonged labor or something. Next day,my head felt super heavy and eyes blood shot Mpaka I started thinking okay maybe it’s the hair(I had faux locks that were to last me a couple weeks before I could do my hair again-At the salon they call it kwenda garage because of kuzaa,Ama ni mimi nashinda Eastlando sana? 😂)So I cut them off because May be they were weighing my head down. It didn’t stop. Now my head is pounding guys..I thought let me go get pain killers from the chemist at arms length. Thank God the pharmacist noticed. She said ‘Mama Gweth you don’t look okay. Tupime pressure kwanza’. It was a whooping 160/120 now medical practitioners will tell you how high that is. Normal is between 120/80-140/90 not more or less. I have no history of blood pressure nor does my family. Hypertension poses such a huge risk to maternal well being. After hospital discharge,there almost 0% surveillance so there’s a high risk of it going unrecognized. Hypertensive disorders are the most common medical complications of pregnancy and second leading cause of maternal death after thromboembolism. (This pic and video taken a day apart) Notice the puffiness and blood shot eyes 👀 #Parenthood101 ••SWIPE••
 
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Ata ukienda clinic mostly it’s the baby that gets checked sana. I feel like a lot of sensitization has to be made in hospitals to have them check new moms all through to the 3rd month after the baby. Why am I saying this? Apart from nausea and feeling tired during pregnancy,I had no complications whatsoever. No swollen feet no nothing.5 days after having my 2ns baby I developed Oedema-My ankles and feet became swollen and my face puffed up.

King at some point made fun of me and said nakaa mtoi with the super round face I just thought it’s just prolonged labor or something. Next day,my head felt super heavy and eyes blood shot Mpaka I started thinking okay maybe it’s the hair(I had faux locks that were to last me a couple weeks before I could do my hair again-At the salon they call it kwenda garage because of kuzaa,Ama ni mimi nashinda Eastlando sana? )

So I cut them off because May be they were weighing my head down. It didn’t stop. Now my head is pounding guys..I thought let me go get pain killers from the chemist at arms length. Thank God the pharmacist noticed. She said ‘Mama Gweth you don’t look okay. Tupime pressure kwanza.’ It was a whooping 160/120 now medical practitioners will tell you how high that is. Normal is between 120/80-140/90 not more or less. I have no history of blood pressure nor does my family.

Hypertension poses such a huge risk to maternal well being. After hospital discharge,there almost 0% surveillance so there’s a high risk of it going unrecognized. Hypertensive disorders are the most common medical complications of pregnancy and second leading cause of maternal death after thromboembolism. (This pic and video taken a day apart)notice the puffiness and blood shot eyes.”

This comes after she had previously shared her miscarriage experience where she walked with a dead foetus without her knowledge back in 2014.