Because of the high rates of maternal mortality, a coping mechanism among Ugandan women is to consider pregnancy as being about bravery and fortitude - Annettee Nakimuli

The placenta must invade the mother enough to access nourishment for the growing baby, yet not so much as to penetrate through the uterus

Placentation is a setting up of the territorial boundary between two genetically different individuals – the mother and her baby, who carries genes from the father. It needs to be in exactly the right place for both to survive and thrive.’

I would often see women who had had four or more Caesarean sections with no living child – they continued exposing themselves to the danger until they had a baby,’