For as long as Nelly, Sironka recalls he does not want the children – and in an unchanged decision The 28-year-old Kenyan never pregnant.
In October, he took the definite step under a sterilization method known as the tubal ligation – permanently closing the door of motherhood.
“I feel liberated,” the Organizational advancement expert tells BBC, adding that it is ensuring his future today.
The surgery is restricted to pregnancy by blocking a woman’s tubes falling into the woman and sometimes called “taking your tails tied”.
Between 2020 and 2023, nearly 16,000 women in East Africa have experienced tubal ligation, according to Kenya’s health ministry.
However, not obvious, how many women do not have children during the way.
However Dr Nelly Bosire says the kinds of women who are primarily looking for sterilization in Kenya changed.
“Of usual, the most common candidates for tubal ligation are women who have many children,” Gynecologist is told by Nairobi’s BBC.
“But now, we see a lot of women with fewer kids picking for the way.”
The sterilization is recommended for women who are certain they do not want to have biological children in the future, as it is difficult to change.
“Doctors do not usually encourage tubal ligations because the rate of success is very poor,” said Dr. Bosire.
Despite coming from a large family, Ms Sironka said she never felt pressured to start her own – though societal norms in Kenya do place an expectation on women to have children.
He assured his father with his principle as he encouraged him to focus on education – and he was given love to read.
The books of US authors like Toni Morrison, Angela Davis and Bell Hooks are a revelation.
“I have been with women’s life stories that children do not show,” says Ms Sironka, now the chief of the feminists in Kenya, an organization that acts in gender violence.
“I know that a life like this can be.”
She thinks sterilization for many years, but decided to keep money savings for surgery and finding himself in a stable job that allows him to spend time spending time.
He spends 30,000 shillings in Kenyan (£ 190; $ 230) in a private hospital.
Ms Sarianka felt that women’s rights were destroying the whole world – especially while the women of the US were lost in the right to abortion of abortion in 2022, which was also influenced by his decision.
He was afraid that a woman’s right to control his own body could be decaying somewhere – and he had to do the way while he was still.
“In Africa and in America, there is an increase in regimes and authorities in authority, a perfect example of such is Kenya,” he argued.
When he told his family, it didn’t surprise them, as he was always a voward about his life for life without a child.
And part of dating and relationships?
“I still think about it,” he said there was a shrug.
And Ms Sarronka is not alone in choosing a child without a child, challenged traditional feminine expectations.
In total social media, there are speakers openly about their choice that cannot have children and pass sterilization.
Among them are Motudi Gitaa, a interior designer and podcaster.
He shared his tubal ligations legally at 30-minute YouTube video in March, explaining his decision with a method.
“I think the first time I learned … (which I don’t want to have children, I’m almost 10,” he told the BBC.
Her mother was pregnant during the time, and a random question about her future fness in conversation.
“I found a possible mate. I saw the journey. I never saw the children,” he said.
Like Ms Sironka, Ms Gitau’s decision was driven by a strong conviction to survive his own terms.
After trying to restrain the birth control, he said he made noousous, he looked for a more permanent solution.
When he first approached a doctor about the tubal ligation at the age of 23, he was met with resistance.
He is given how it feels like a sermon about how children are a blessing from God.
“He asked me, ‘What if I met someone who kids wanted?'” He said.
The doctor seems to have a lot of consideration for an “imaginary person” than the actual patient sitting before him, he said.
Ms Gitaau said that the giving is “breaking the heart”. It was just a decade before his wishes were given at the end.
Dr. Posire was referred to an important challenge in Kenya to take medics to move their thinking and truly appreciated a patient’s right to make decisions in their health.
“This relationship with our culture, where people believe abnormal for women who want a tubal strong,” he said.
Another Kenyan Gynecologist, Dr Kireki Omanwa, admits that the issue is a matter of debate among partners and medical circles.
“It remained unstoppable,” he told the BBC.
But Ms. Gitaau did not decay and last year approached another doctor – this time in a non-governmental organization provides family planning services.
He is armed with a bulleted point of factors to support his decision and relieved to find no pushback: “The doctor is very kind.”
Currently, he happily lives in his decision, which he feels to give his control in his own life.
The 34-year-old is also enjoying his video reaction – and relies relieved without a lot of backlash.
He says most people online enjoy him, seeing his trust growing.
“Women can contribute to the world in many other ways,” he said.
“It doesn’t have to be by raising a whole person. I am grateful to live a generation where choice is something.”
