Celebrity couple Flavia Tumusiime and Andrew Kabuura are expecting their second child.
A video shared by Andrew on Thursday showed a joyful Flavia showing off her baby bump. The two were having a meal, but she was quick to remind everyone it was actually three people eating.
“I am eating bread. We! Are eating bread,” the radio host said, while holding her tummy.
Their first child, a son (Liam), is now 2 years and 3 months.
She has shared how raising her son was challenging, especially because being on radio daily put them apart. But last year, Flavia quit her daily radio show – the AM-PM show – on Capital FM, which she had hosted for 16 years. Now she only hosts a weekly show (Desert Island Disks) on radio, which somewhat gives her breathing space.
“It was hard. As a breastfeeding mother, you get to work and cry because you miss your child,” she said in 2021 in a video on her YouTube channel, sharing about her parenting experience.
To make up for this, she started monthly mom-son dates to further grow their bond.
The other hardship was raising a child during a pandemic when schools and daycare centers were closed.
Parenting has been many things for the 34-year-old actress, including appreciating the little things that she took for granted. Little things like crossing the road with Liam (to one of their dates) and watching him beam with a smile.
But on the flip side, the journey to her next birth comes with a bit of anxiety. She has recently been sick, with limited movement while she recovers from a surgery she underwent.
It followed a laparoscopy – a surgical procedure that allows a surgeon to access the inside of the abdomen (tummy) and pelvis without having to make large incisions in the skin, that she underwent.
Flavia has a condition called endometriosis. And the surgery was an intervention to manage it.
“My symptoms are into Stage 2. If you are experiencing very painful periods to the point when you can’t walk, you could have it. You need to get checked for endometriosis,” she shared on her Instagram towards the end of last year, adding that; “I found out I had it two years ago when I gave birth and I had an emergency c-section. I was induced coz I had hard labor. It’s been an up and down journey.”
“It’s like a web of tissue that sort of covers different parts of the reproductive system and it can cause very very hard pain. For stage 3 endometriosis, you will struggle to have a baby. You will most likely struggle for years. Stage 4, you’re pretty much at infertility. It’s a miracle if you even have a baby,” she said.
She says she started having painful periods when she was young.
Endometriosis is a disorder in which tissue that normally lines the uterus grows outside the uterus.
The condition is one of the causes of damaged or blocked fallopian tubes. The others being pelvic inflammatory disease, surgery, tubal ligation and an ectopic pregnancy.
Comedian, Anne Kasiime, too has revealed that for a long time, she tried to have a baby but failed, because her fallopian tubes were blocked. She had to undergo a very painful procedure to unblock them. Which she did thrice with each single procedure taking three days.
