Drama King Teejay's Corner

Child bearing is one great mystery of life from the Almighty.

 From the fertilization stage up to foetus and then a baby. God in deed, is wonderful. The joy of it can't be overemphasized in a family and in a situation where couples are trying to conceive, it leaves some disappointment to their expectation most especially when they're been satisfied medically fit to have one.

Back then in one of my former residence, there was this couple who parked in when a tenant had just parked out. After some few months, we saw the woman becoming heavy with a child. There's a maternity home in my compound run by a midwife over the years. 

Almost everyday, we get to hear the cries of new born. Periodically, pregnant women do come for checkup to ascertain the position of their baby in the womb and other necessary information. 

One day I overheard a neighbor gossiping saying, according to the midwife what the pregnant neighbor who parked in new in the compound had in her isn't a foetus. She told her during checkup that she can't feel anything like a baby on her but the woman insisted and shouted, ''God forbid. I will carry my baby to full term.''

In two different check up, it was the same experience and the nurse recommended her to a hospital. She stopped going to the maternity for a routine checkup and resorted to prayer houses. We the good neighbors were expecting the good news of her putting to birth anytime soon but didn't get to see that happened. From her calculation to the nurse, she was eight month gone and was expecting to birth on the next month. 

Now, I want to ask. Is it that a pregnant woman can't feel it when she's at that stage or aren't there signs of pregnancy on the body?

The ninth month came and no sign of labour. Up till the twelfth month. Everyone became concerned and worried. Prayers were held midnight at her home from different ministries and nothing changed. Is it that the woman was lying to herself on the true situation of things or was she believing in some sort of an invincible miracle?

On the fifteen months, with four months of their rent expiration, they parked out of the compound. Obviously, she couldn't withstand why her own 'pregnancy' is different from other women's own.

One day, we got to hear from the nurse that the woman was scammed by some traditional medicine practitioners who gave her concoctions that inflated her stomach. They told her the mixtures will got her pregnant and when she began seeing the rise, they told her she's pregnant. She was instructed never to go to the hospital. I heard they spent over half a million for that but it was all a scam.

One question I would have loved to ask that woman if I was the nurse was, if she was menstruating all the while the stomach was developing. How will that stomach eventually go back to normal was what I kept asking myself. There's no length scammers and criminals won't get to in defrauding their victims. How did they even convinced this woman and she believed even without pregnancy symptoms that she was carrying a baby.

Strange realities.