Labour Room Drama 215

A woman's body does great things! Nurturing another human inside of you for nine months!! God is awesome!!

Hi Stella,

I am an ardent reader of your blog posts. I follow you back to back. I want to share my first labor room experience with you.


Growing up i hear people say this words to pregnant women "hope the baby is kicking well" or Yorubas say "shon kick" i didn't know what those words really meant until i took in and my baby got to that stage. Oh lawd he was such a kicker, super active!!


MY LABOR ROOM JOURNEY

When i found out i was pregnant i was super excited, baby daddy was also excited cause we've been looking forward to it. I sharply went and registered for antenatal, i was asked to go for scan and a drama happened.


Baby daddy ( i call him that cause we are no longer together) and i went to one yeye private hospital close to where we lived to run the scan and the guy told us there was no fetus?? Mogbe!!! no fetus for where? I was like, oga are you sure you are okay? i am two months gone and you are saying no fetus. So the guy now said let me check again, that was how he kept using that scanner to shook my tummy... i had to ask him "oga dem send you? do you want to kill my child"


Baby daddy got angry and asked us to leave there. We finally went to another lab and it was confirmed that i was 11 weeks gone. My joy knew no bounds.


The first four months of my pregnancy wasn't easy at all. I had all the symptoms of early pregnancy, lost so much weight and was so pale. But after the 4th month i started enjoying my preggo life, it went smoothly until i exceeded my due date i became impatient.


I and baby daddy were so eager to meet our lil man but lil man was just chilling having a swell time in mummy's tummy. I went for different scans, they all kept saying the same thing "your baby is in perfect condition, he is just taking his time"


Days went by no sign of labor, i decided to induce it by dancing , going for long walks with baby daddy, cleaning the house even when its not dirty, going up and down the stairs , arranging and rearranging of my hospital bag.... for where my baby no gree come. So i told God " I know you didn't bring me this far to forsake me, let your will be done"


On that beautiful Wednesday morning, everything seemed normal. Baby daddy went to work, so i decided to stroll to the market and see maybe i can see new stuffs to buy for my baby. I went to the market bought some things, sat down in one woman's shop... we gisted for hours, funny thing was, i didn't know her from Adam. I later went home, on my way i branched an eatery bought all sorts of food. Went home, ate as if that was my last day. I was so full, i could hardly move sef. LOL.


Evening came, made dinner .... was resting on the couch when i felt a very sharp pain, i felt it was just normal kicks then it started coming at intervals. Surprisingly i was really calm, baby daddy wasn't home yet and i didn't call him. i didn't call my mum too cause that woman can panic ehn. I was just patiently waiting for the other signs o labor.


Labor started at 9pm and i was home till 2am before i decided i was ready to go to the hospital. Baby daddy was all over the place, the guy was confused!! (this was somebody that was making mouth few months back , lol)


We got to the hospital at 3am, as God would have it my favorite Nurse was on ground. I was beyond happy. 6am baby wasn't ready, the pains were getting intense. I asked to be induced, i don't know what they call that drip but all i can say is that the moment that drip finished .... my tummy caught fire!!! The pain was so intense that i didn't know when i flinged my wrapper to one corner.


I was in the hospital when two other pregnant women came and delivered before me. I started asking God what my offense was. When my baby tries to come out, his placenta pulls him back. I kept hearing the nurses saying "placenta wants to come out before baby, God forbid" They prayed... asked me to push... same thing. the nurse kept using her hand to push the placenta back. It was more like a struggle between my baby and his placenta.


I got into the labor room at 9am and at 1pm baby still hasn't come. I was so tired to even push. All i could hear was the nurses asking my baby daddy and family to pray. My mum was crying, my baby daddy came into the room held my hands and prayed for me and then he said " i know you can do it, you are strong" then they asked him to leave.


I cant even say how i go the strength, all i know is that i pushed my baby out!!! He came out and didn't cry cause he was already tired. Nurses started running up and down. Next thing, they spanked him 3 times and he gave a very weak cry. That cry brought me back to reality, i was a mom. All the pains just disappeared. Baby daddy didn't even wait for me to be cleaned up before he rushed in, gave me a kiss on my forehead and said "You did it, thank you"


I gave birth at exactly 2pm on Thursday October 13th 2016 to a 3.8kg baby boy. All the clothes i brought to the hospital didn't size him cause he was big and tall like me. My mum had to quickly get new ones from a nearby shop.


My recovery process was super fast though the first week after delivery wasn't funny cause i had tear and couldn't walk properly, going to the toilet was hell. choi




My baby boy will be 2 years on October 13th. Attached are some of his pics, you can share on the blog.

Apologies for the long story