Janet Chepkemei*, from Kitale, got married in 2012.
She expected that she would be a mother in the next year. "Failing to conceive in two years raised an alarm for me," she says.
Chepkemei visited a gynaecologist who put her through several tests and scans. "That's when I was told that I had fibroids - many of them," she says.
Dr Kireki Omanwa, a fertility expert, says: "Fibroids are a major cause of infertility among women.