Sisi Senaponi's Corner - Labour Room Magic

 Haaaaaaa, curses in the labour room?

Kpoi! Kpoi kpoi! Na who dey house e?

Una SDK pipu dem dem. I greet o!

Stellalipoppins...how the horizon?! I hail o!


Na noise we hear inside hospital as I follow person go greet person!


The woman wan come deliver, she begin wail, lament, pray...nothing wey she nor do!
Na only her elderly Mama follow her come there.


The Mama dey try hold her make she nor wunjor herself! As she dey fling hairnet, na so she dey fling slippers!


Nurses say make them leave her, as the shout go help pursue the baby comot! Una say wetin?!

The nurses just dey waka pass like say na nothing!


As we enter go greet our person wey just born, Na she tell us say the woman's husband abandon her for midnight since 8months ago! The baby don almost due now, as she come hospital na so so strong, strong words they comot for her mouth! *Hmmm!*


The one wey my spynoculars carry, na when she call the husband full name say 'na only if no be him be the first and only man wey climb her, make everything begin work against am until he come back'! *Choi!*


Her mama dey close her mouth say make she nor too talk!


Nurse wey dey duty for reception, dey chop bread and butter, carry hot tea inside one gigantic mug, waka pass inside like say nothing dey happun!


I say aunty nurse, una dey try o!


She say na me dey worry! She say the kain lives wey don scatter on top woman 'under', na only God sabi!


She point the woman wey dey wail say, the woman na technical virgin she be, as na just once the husband touch am wey she carry belle and he disappear with another woman!


She say make i dey watch o! Say if the man dey innocent nothing go do am! But if not, she say anything wey the woman talk inside that pain! Heaven sef nor go deny am! *eleeeeeee!*


Hmm...Na so I begin hear shout of another woman. Her husband go buy her Amala come, she shout for him head say na Semo she send am!


The husband don climb stairs like 1million times! Na as he dey buy boiled corn, na so he dey find avocado upandan. Later, I see am from window as he leave car, carry plate dey cross road, begin find wetin nor loss!...if this man nor gree touch him wife again, anor go blame am! He see shege!


When time reach to enter theatre, they carry cap and scrub give am! He say he nor wan enter! God abeg e!


Aneva see man wey fear him wife like that! He ask if she go sleep during delivery?!

Doctor say Mba! no be operation, so na she go push!
The wife say 'baby come closer so I can hold your hands'...I don laff scatter leg for ground! Nna ehn!

Anyways na twins she born, no wonder na double stress she give her husband!


Back to the woman wey dey very sad! She come talk another one say if God truly be God, make the husband leave wherever he dey, come back house before the baby come out!


The Mama say No o! If the man no gree come another year nko! Say make she nor dey talk like that! Choi, anor know as water jor comot for my eye!

She just dey call him full name plus him mama name say anything wey that strange woman use tie am must scatter Because she nor thief person joy!
I begin cover myself too with prayer because anor know the kain Angel wey dey pass with vex!


They carry her enter go check, they ask if her mother wan enter with her? As na her only relative she sef insist say, yes!


They enter o...they tehhhh...Nna ehn, anor gree go house! I begin stretch neck, begin ask Nurse say how far! Nurse say pikin nor gree come and she just dey shout her husband name say wherever e dey! E must come!


Choi...goosebumps full my body! Aunty Nurse don go carry Fanta and chin chin to top up, they sidon begin watch African Magic. I just dey wonder how dey get mind like that!


Another couple come, husband say he wan drop him wife with doctor say she dey Disturb him for house! Make dem give her private room with television. I laugh no be small!!


She go run follow him dey cry like small pikin! He say e go buy pizza and chicken and bring for her! Na that time She leave him hand o! God abeg!


We still dey laugh their drama when one Tall, fine man enter the reception.


He ask for him wife name. Aunty Nurse wey dey chop chin chin, look the man ask him where he dey come for this late night? And wetin dey the box wey he carry?


He say na Abuja he from come. Say him wife send am text since yesterday say she dey hospital to born, but he just see the text that night, Na why he come!


E never reach 1minute wey that man enter that reception wey that woman born o!
One nurse comot from inside there, the chinchin Nurse follow am whisper something.


They carry the man near labour room door. Na where the woman Mama begin talk their dialect dey thank God, dey use wrapper clean eye! The man enter go see the baby and wife!


Hmm!...for the things wey the nurses and women in Labour dey see...to God be the Glory.


I dey go yard for solemn mood jeje, Na im this sekuriti dey block me for gate, he say I be patient wey wan run!
I tell am say if e no comot for my front, prosthetics nor go fit fix the centimeter wah go use measure your face na,na!