Hello mothers in the house, happy new year, and welcome to the month of January in a fresh and virgin year 2025.
In the year 2022, I got pregnant four month after I dedicated my first daughter and her birth was through CS, it wasn't easy at first I wanted to terminate the pregnancy since it was too close but yet the doctor said no and I carried it, you can imagine the stress, I was still breastfeeding my first daughter so I did a work of faith and believe God all through the process.
2 months after, the midwives during my antenatal told me to stop breastfeeding and I did feeding my first daughter with only milk and pap.
8 months into my third trimester the doctor told me I should book a session for my CS that I can't carry the child for complete term, she had to call my husband, told him I don't have enough blood to carry me again so they have to save my life and the life of my baby, I cried,and while crying I prayed, I went back home told my husband and we prayed though I saw the fear in the eyes of my husband, I was also scared because in my last CS session I was unconscious, but this one I will be taking my self in consciously so I was afraid more than my husband but still I was strong and was very positive about it, I just prepared my mind psychologically and mentally, I was ready still fear was still coming.
December 24 which was my first daughter birthday to make her 2 years I was in the hospital bed just watching her, I was very weak still my husband told the doctor to discharge me that he wants the baby to come out next year that's January and the doctor told him it is at his own risk and he took me home, though the pains, weakness and stress was still there I stayed at home celebrating the Christmas and new year then on the 4th we went back to the hospital and the doctor just looked at us and smile.
I slept in the hospital on 4th and on 5th I was taken to the theatre and while preparing to go inside my husband and my first daughter held my hands and say a word of prayers with me and I said Amen, I went in, lay down on the bed and I was injected and the doctor's came in,. Female and a male doctor there she said her prayers too, asked me what the sex of my child is I told her a girl, she smile still cutting me up and down though I didn't feel anything but I was very conscious and just watching them, she wanted me to stay awake so why working she was asking me questions and I was answering her. Soon I saw them bring out a small, fair baby, she was not making her earth first sound, so the nurse in charge told th doctors and the female doctor told the male doctor to get fast to the baby which he did and she told him what to do and immediately she release her first earthly cry and I smile.
The nurse dressed her up, weight her and she was 2.7. I stayed there for more than 1 hour after the baby was out, the drugs I was injected to ease the pains was overdue so pains started coming heavily and I cried out to the doctor's o they told the theatre attendance to inject the drug to my drip and they did and immediately I slept off and the pains was all gone and that was all for me.
I later woke up to see my self in the bed and I was feeling so sick, I was severely shivering, I was covered all manner of blankets to stop the shivering still it was so severe. The doctor told them to give me drugs for malaria and paracetamol to stop the cold.
I'm B negative and my husband is B positive, so fining blood for my CS session was very difficult, I even had to pay for my siblings to do blood test and none of them came out with my kind of blood. I ordered for the blood before 4th and order for rhogam which even cost more than my CS session and finding the injection was very hard in my locality.
In the evening, the cold was gone but the pains was still very severe and I couldn't just raise my back at any point even when I tried and as a strong lady that i am the pains just couldn't let me breathe I cried throughout.
Seeing my daughter, she was so small and I asked my mum when she came if she will be big at all, my mum looked at me and smile saying she will be fat I should just give it time.
Raising her up was just not fun because we have sleep in the hospital countless times, spend money for drugs still her health was not improving but one day the Lord smile on us and she started behaving as someone living on Earth.
She sat on the floor for one year nine month, people came with different drugs prescriptions, homemade medicine, stories upon stories yet I stood firm, hold my baby with pride and today she is my testimony.
I did not celebrate her 1 year old because she did not work so this year I have decided to make it big for her and today I am letting the world know that my baby Elisheva is plus 1 making her 2 years old today.