There is no better feeling than that of holding your child in your arms as you tease it around. Those who miss the opportunities of being a parent for one reason or the other are willing do to anything to have a child including spending millions to have a baby.
Some of those people who have spent or still spending a lot of money to get a child include some of the country’s top celebrities. Those celebrities include;
Jeff Koinange
Jeff Koinange and his wife Shaila Koinange spent a lot of money to get their son, Jamal Mbiyu Koinange.
In his book, Through My African Eyes, revealed that he and his wife struggled for 9 years to get their son. He noted they went through several procedures trying to conceive.
“We had practically given up until Jimmy Monclus Maleketa, a half-Spanish, half Congolese friend we met in Lagos suggested we try invitro-fertilization (IVF) at a renowned fertility clinic in Barcelona, Spain,” Jeff said in his book.
IVF is a complex and expensive procedure used to help with fertility. It involves collecting mature eggs from ovaries and fertilize them with sperm in a lab.
Jeff said that they underwent the procedure more than once for it to be successful. The procedure can cost up to Ksh.2 million.
Avril
Nakuru-based Kenyan singer Avril in a past revealed that she had to undergo medical surgery just to conceive.
The Kesho hitmaker noted that two fibroids had to be removed from her body for her to get pregnant.
Before the procedure, which is expensive as well, Avril revealed that she had also tried different ways to be pregnant but failed.
Milly Odhiambo
Suba North MP Milly Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona is another prominent leader who has struggled to get a child. The legislature has tried other ways to get a child by trying to pass a bill in parliament that could allow her to conceive through surrogacy, a very expensive way to get a child.
MP Millie,55, has who has not yet given up on getting her biological child has opted to adopt a child in the meantime.
Mathu Kambua
Before having her first child in 2019, media personality Mathu Kambua stayed in a marriage for over six years without having a child.
In a previous social media post, while responding to a follower who then attacked her for not having a child, Kambua revealed that she was struggling with infertility.
“People will have an opinion over everything, over children. Today I saw a comment and deleted it because this guy commented on my Instagram and he says ‘When are you going to get pregnant, you’re getting old’”
“I remember thinking, the reason why it angers me is that people don’t even know what your journey is like. They don’t know what you’re struggling with. They don’t know if you even what to have children. They don’t know if you can have children and there are so many people especially today who are struggling with infertility. It is so unfortunate that we have become such a culture of being so intrusive and putting people down,” she wrote as reported by Youth Village.
To solve her infertility problem and finally have a child, Kambua might have used over a million shillings since just a single surgery to do that can cost up to Ksh 1 million.
Today, Kambua is a mother of a three-year-old baby boy.
