{"id":198911,"date":"2025-05-27T12:51:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-the-waiting-game-how-a-maternity-home-in-namibia-is-offering-women-and-newborns-a-better-chance-at-surviving-and-thriving\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T12:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:51:37","slug":"namibia-the-waiting-game-how-a-maternity-home-in-namibia-is-offering-women-and-newborns-a-better-chance-at-surviving-and-thriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-the-waiting-game-how-a-maternity-home-in-namibia-is-offering-women-and-newborns-a-better-chance-at-surviving-and-thriving\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: The Waiting Game &#8211; How a Maternity Home in Namibia Is Offering Women and Newborns a Better Chance At Surviving &#8211; and Thriving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Kunene Region, Namibia \u2014 Kuliua Maundu, 26, remembers the night seven years ago like it was yesterday. &#8220;I was at home when the pain started,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I thought it was just labour, so I tried to sleep, thinking I&#8217;d go to the hospital in the morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">But by the time she got there the next day, it was too late. Her baby had died from umbilical cord strangulation, a tragic complication that with the care of a skilled midwife could have been averted.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\">&#8220;I regret it every day&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">&#8220;If only I had gone to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505270128.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kunene Region, Namibia \u2014 Kuliua Maundu, 26, remembers the night seven years ago like it was yesterday. &#8220;I was at home when the pain started,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I thought it was just labour, so I tried to sleep, thinking I&#8217;d go to the hospital in the morning.&#8221; But by the time she got there the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,12844,8500,8849,13138,4706,724,23754,257,16417,254,10629,33105,17365,6524],"class_list":["post-198911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chance","tag-game","tag-home","tag-maternity","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-newborns","tag-news","tag-offering","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surviving","tag-thriving","tag-waiting","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}