‘I cried through my pregnancy’ - Flavia returns online to discuss hiatus, radio exit

On return, the 35-year-old had a lot to share about enduring another “complicated” pregnancy as well as the tough time she went through trying to adjust to life away from work.

Flavia quit Capital FM in August last year, where she had worked for over 15 years as the host of the 5-hour AM to PM show. She was, however, trained to do the weekly Desert Island Disk program.

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A month after leaving the Kamwokya-based station, she got pregnant.

Speaking on her first YouTube episode since breaking off last year, Flavia said the pregnancy was like a setback, as she had many other plans she hoped to accomplish.

“It was like a real spanner in the works,” she said.

The pregnancy itself, Flavia says was as complicated as the first one. And to make it scarier, it turned out that she was having twins.

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The pain and mental stress, she says, became so overwhelming that she even “failed to realize what a blessing the pregnancy was supposed to be.

Flavia says she ended up having to take a 6-month bed rest and at some point, she “got sicker” and was even hospitalized.

“If you have been on my channel you know that the first pregnancy did not treat me well; the second one did not spare me as well,” she said.

“I had so many bad days, there are days when I would just wake up and cry…,” Flavia recounted.

“Eventually in my pregnancy, I got sicker and had to be in hospital and there found out that I was having twins.”

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Although she had prayed for twins in the past, Flavia says, she was still caught by surprise and she wondered why God had answered this particular prayer and not all the others.

Flavia and her husband Andrew Kabuura welcomed their twins in May this year.

In hindsight, she says, her pregnancy turned out to be a blessing as it afforded her time to hang more with her firstborn son, and also pay more attention to her marriage.

“It made me appreciate my marriage more; I started paying attention to him. We even became better friends with my husband,” she said.

On what kept her away from social media, she said she had become “too incapacitated to even get time to take pictures for Instagram.”

Flavia’s YouTube channel, where she shares inspiration from her life, has over 50,000 subscribers.