{"id":135566,"date":"2020-05-27T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T08:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=135566"},"modified":"2020-05-27T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T08:47:29","slug":"i-could-not-sit-or-pose-for-a-photo-chantelle-petit-recounts-painful-battle-with-fistula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/i-could-not-sit-or-pose-for-a-photo-chantelle-petit-recounts-painful-battle-with-fistula\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI could not sit or pose for a photo,\u201d Chantelle Petit recounts painful battle with fistula"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yummy mummy, Chantelle Petit bore a baby girl early January 2019 where she suffered fistula that rendered her unable to sit.<\/p>\n

The joy of a mother is to hear their baby\u00b4s first cry in the hope that they will eventually get to hold them in their arms.<\/p>\n

As much as this was the joy of Kenyan vlogger, Chantelle Petit, her postpartum journey tells a different tale.<\/p>\n

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Vlogger, Chantelle Petit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The mother of one suffered birth complications that compelled her to undergo reconstructive fistula surgery after a 3rd degree tear during delivery.<\/p>\n

Also read: \u00a8I\u00b4m trying my best to heal from that toxic experience\u00a8 Chantelle Petit pleads<\/a><\/p>\n

The aftermath was a painful experience, rendering her unable to hold onto her baby for more than 5 minutes and unable to sit nor walk properly.<\/p>\n

Use of the bathroom was a luxury for her and if she could be spared frequent visits to the restroom, then that could have made life way easier for her.<\/p>\n

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Mother of one, Chantelle Petit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A first time mom, who can\u00b4t enjoy the feeling that comes with channeling all your energy towards this mini-you.<\/p>\n

Instead, for Chantelle, more time was spent healing her wounds than on nursing her little girl.<\/p>\n

As she recently recalled those dark days, the mompreneur could not help but get emotional, remembering just how tough the journey of motherhood had started for her.<\/p>\n

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Chantelle Petit with daughter, Summer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not able to sit, let alone pose for a picture. Forget the smile and all those random or perfected poses we struggle to make, Chantelle could not even enjoy the luxury of a lens before her eyes.<\/p>\n

The fact that I\u00b4m able to now, makes me super emotional. I don\u00b4t even know what to say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also read: Actress Brenda Wairimu and Chantelle Petit\u2019s baby daddy part ways after their secret relationship?<\/a><\/p>\n

Having survived the trying times, the content creator\u00b4s one prayer is that stigmatization of the condition in women someday comes to a halt, for good.<\/p>\n

But I pray we will one day live in a world where the stigma associated with fistula is no more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ephy Saint\u00b4s baby mama, Chantelle Petit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To her fellow fistula-warriors, she hailed:<\/p>\n

I salute all the warrior queens who have survived it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just to ring a bell, Chantelle Petit is former Tahidi High actor, Ephy Saint\u00b4s baby mama for their daughter, Summer.<\/p>\n

Their relationship has not served either of them milk and honey, having had a fair share of setbacks, at times splashing mud on each other\u00b4s names but if recent events are anything to go by, the dust has settled and co-parenting is going just fine.<\/p>\n

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Co-parents, Ephy Saint and Chantelle Petit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yummy mummy, Chantelle Petit bore a baby girl early January 2019 where she suffered fistula that rendered her unable to sit. The joy of a mother is to hear their baby\u00b4s first cry in the hope that they will eventually get to hold them in their arms. As much as this was the joy of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6063,"featured_media":135567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[127819,127820,20],"class_list":["post-135566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-chantelle-petit-fistula-news","tag-chantelle-petit-postpartum-news","tag-ghafla-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135590,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135566\/revisions\/135590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}