Mama Tee Series -Drama And Comedy As Grandma Visits Lagos

Mama Tee's series is now a stand alone and wil feature every Friday same time...

When I gave birth to Tee, my mum was indisposed, my aunt too was in her daughter's house for omugwo so they sent my little sister who was in the higher institution to come help with house chores while a church Mama took up the responsibility of bathing me and the new baby.

After 5 days, my paternal grandma arrived from the East to take over from church Mama. 

She was 72yrs old. I was glad that my grandmother had arrived, you know, I could now shout and scream freely while receiving that hot water treatment. That reminds me, Stella, how do abroad people do that tummy blasting with hot water? Abi dem no dey do am?

Back to my story, trouble started when grandma started bathing baby, I noticed that the baby's cries were louder than when Mama church was doing the bathing, rushing to the scene I saw grandma washing the baby's face with soap and then she rinsed it with water just like when adults bath. E pain me but I controlled my anger and gently explained to her the method used by Mama church, cleaning with face towel. She complied.

After a week of grandma's take over, pus started coming out of baby's ears, grandma had been pouring water into the baby's ears. That was how I took over the bathing of my baby. Hian!

Grandma was very choosy with food. Her eba and Semo must be very strong in contrast to mine which should be very soft to prevent big tummy. Grandma did not like rice, beans, okra soup, ewedu, spaghetti, etc. Till today, she does not like Yoruba locust beans(iru, ogiri or dawa) in her soup, she hates the smell.
The first day I served her soup containing iru, she picked every tiny piece of it and put them in the tray.

 The day I blended it and added to soup, she threw up. Hehehehehe

Let me add that grandma till this day does not eat without a tray. You must serve her with a tray even if it's on a dinning table with table mats. Hahahahahahahaha


Early one morning when my baby was 2months old, grandma called me to come see something in the living room. When I rushed there, she pointed at the artificial plant at a corner and told me it was growing taller. Hahahahahahahahaha.

Growing taller how? Rubber plant that I placed inside a pot filled with plastic crystals? We laughed at grandma till tears flowed from our eyes that day.

Grandma's tales can make a good comedy movie, they are too much to narrate. May God keep all our old ones alive longer for us.

Mama Tee.

*Mama Tee I cannot answer that your question up there cos i had Cesarean sections..Maybe someone else who is in the diaspora and had the hot water treatment after childbirth can add their story in the comment section.

As for Grand ma's,I do not have any fond memories per se of both my late grandma's cos i grew up in Lagos and both did not like Lagos and we were only allowed to go visiting until all visits were stopped over a little ish.