The Philippine Diary Project

It’s Maundy Thursday. Traditionally, we should be joining our neighbours in the house across our street so we can read together the narrative of the Lord’s Passion. We can’t gather this year so my neighbour performed the reading on her own. I could hear her from our house. The children enjoyed a good meal today...

I thought I was going to give birth yesterday. I was doing the laundry when I felt stomach pains. My mother brought me to the midwife but it was a false alarm. I feel better now but I got a scolding from my mother. She said I overreacted. I think she’s angry because I unnecessarily..

I don’t do much inside the house. I watch reruns of movies on television. Sometimes I clean the house and cook food. I was told to stay active so it will be easier to give birth. This had been my routine before the lockdown. The difference is there’s no school and all my nieces and..

I’m pregnant again after I lost my first baby last year. I’m afraid of coronavirus but not so much because there’s no confirmed case in our neighbourhood. Going hungry worries me more. No one can go out to work because of the lockdown. We don’t have money to feed 15 mouths in my mother’s house, where..