......I'll have to look at the tools i carry around in my boot.I guess box,open,fixed,pliers,hacksaw,ball pein hammer,tongs and stuff is not all i need...On a serious note though,doesn't this tell us it's very important to have a first aid kit in your car all the time?

Wah! I bet you now have new respect for women. I know one can have reverence for an airport after such an experience, going near it with a frown!

This is now when a man uses the phrases Please Sorry and Thank You, without fail; washes before and after, and keeps asking 'Are you ok'. Here prayers would be necessary.

Muheani, are you free tomorrow morning? There is a pregnant woman here that wants to know where you will be...lol..

Jokes aside, good job my guy, not many people would be that selfless and generous with their car and time to strangers...

@SP,
This are skills all of us should acquire.I for one wouldn't mind but where?

@Njunge. 'old' men like you who never suffered under the 8.4.4 regime may not know a thing. They taught me basics of emergency childbirth assistnace in Std. 7 and 8 home science many years ago but I still recall because of the passion with which this lady teacher taught.

In Nairobi and many other urban and rural places with roads and health centres, it should be that you are somehow able to ferry the expecting mother to be attended to. This is what is best.

However, like it has always happened, it comes toofast for some women. I recall a colleague whose wife was doing dishes then quickly dashed to the living room and shouted 'twende' as she clutched on to a prepacked bag. They got near the hospital, and before the car could make to the vehicular entrance, she asked hubby to stop, dashed out and got into the hosi using a small staff entry and before long there was a cry of joy. In cases like this it is very likely that such a woman may actually deliver in the car if the hospital is not near or in Nairobi traffic. A comprehensive first aid course at the Kenya Red Cross or the St. John Ambulance should be enough for one to be useful in emergencies including child birth.

Basics are also here http://www.i4at.org/surv/ebirth.htm

It almost always happens that there will be women to come to the aid of one of their own and they are usually very keen to shield the woman from indecent exposure. So expect to be rudely chased away if you are a man unless you identify yourself as a first aid guy.

Muheani must be a strong willed and warm hearted guy. The amount of pain, fluid, especially blood and sometimes an involuntary helping of 'number 2'I have seen in two of these emergencies is quite traumatising and for Muheani to be upbeat after it is a good sign that humanity is still alive. Many would refuse to help simply so that their cars are not soiled.

7.5yrs Later, I finally got to meet Baby Deogracious Waswa on Saturday. Now In Class 1

I tell You it was so Full filling.

Apart from Mild Asthma, he is doing just fine.

The story of the parents struggle that morning, and many mornings after, the father losing work two days after baby was born (he was an apartment care taker then)....being hosted by the Moms sister in Athi River..... was just humbling.

The Good Lord, in his own way picked them up. They are doing well now.

He is Deogracious. Thanks be to God.