After forty week of conception, nausea, morning sicknesses, back pains, sleepless nights, antenatal and labour amidst all the crazy cravings and discomfort, a precious baby has been successfully delivered. 

A new programme dubbed ‘Forty Weeks and More’ hits Joy Prime television this and every Saturday at 5pm starting January 18, 2025. 

Hosted by the Programmes Manager of Joy FM and host of Home Affairs, Edem Knight-Tay, ‘Forty Weeks and More’ will highlight the stories of some of the most challenging moments women go through from the conception of their babies through to delivery, nursing them and more. 

The programme will make you pray, cry, laugh and take you on an emotional journey. Ultimately, it will educate and equip you for motherhood and parenting.

Every woman who desires a baby prays to carry the pregnancy to full term forty weeks with no complications whatsoever and then go on to deliver their bundle of joy. But that certainly is not the case for every woman. 

Some women and their families go through very tumultuous and challenging times in a quest to have a child they call their own. 

Many women have lost their lives to this desire and in some cases sadly, both mother and baby never make it home. 

Many marriages have ended up on the rocks because of this desire and some women live very miserable lives due to their inability to have children. There is also the challenge of having children with special needs and the grueling efforts it takes to take care of them.

Imagine the Joy of a mother who has so desired a son because she has girls and then graciously, she gets pregnant and has a son that completes her joy but soon discovers an eye defect which turns out to be cancer of the eye (retino-blastoma) and by his second birthday, the boy has his eye plucked out.

How does one keep picking herself up after each failed pregnancy to the count of seven miscarriages and two still births? And then in another case, a woman carries safely to full term, goes into labour which transitions into an emergency caesarian session then goes home with a surgical wound and licking breast milk with no baby to show for it.

These are some of the stories that will be projected on ‘Forty Weeks and More’ with Edem Knight-Tay on Joy Prime every Saturday at 5pm. It will also be available on Family Forum Africa channel on YouTube.

The show is sponsored by Ernest Chemist Limited, Shape Healthcare, Labadi Beach Hotel, R Luri, Doberta, Lunch Avenue and Decorzone.