A Scale-breaking Baby “What a big baby!” the nurses exclaimed as my mom and my aunt approached the weighing table at the Maternity Section of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, with me neatly swaddled up and sleeping. “Can you put her on the scale?” the nurse said, looking quite alarmed by my size, but my mother didn’t think the scale could take my weight. On the insistence of the determined nurses, my mother handed me over to be duly weighed. No sooner had the nurse put me on the scale than crash! The scale came crashing down; it was broken! “Pick her up!” “Pick her up!” The nurses called out crossly to my mother, but my mum reminded them, “We asked you not to put her on the scale!” Half a Century of Nana Ama’s Journey School Days and Lessons Beyond the Classroom 4 The Birthday Journal
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