Labour Room Drama 215

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Greetings mammy Stella

Since I notice the labour room folder is empty I said let me send in my 4th experience since the 2nd and 3rd weren't that dramatic.


Lengthy but please pardon.


Started ante-natal at 7months and by my 3rd appointment, I was already 8 months 2 weeks gone and still on 2 weeks appointment.


A little testimony**


2 days to my 3rd appointment, I was in the parlour with my kids at around past 10 p.m when one of my street neighbour knocked on the door that I should help him with a torchlight that a snake just entered the church opposite our house.


I told him my oga had gone out with the torchlight.
After trying in vain without any success, he left.
By then my kids had slept off so I carried them to go sleep in the room and went back to the parlour to go eat the apples I kept in the freezer.


You know, as the oyinbo **who dash me sef?** that I am, I had to keep my legs on the chair to eat.
After eating, I said let me go keep the plate in the kitchen, as I dropped my leg something like a cockroach or small rat tail touched me. N.B. our door had small hole at the edge.


And I just said, these rats and cockroaches are getting too much liberty in this house oh.


After dropping off the plate, though I wasn't feeling pressed but one mind was just telling me to go and pee.
I said, but I ain't pressed now so what's the essence of peeing, my mind still asked me to go pee so I wouldn't wake up to go pee again.


People of God, as I stepped down from the dinning and about going to the passage, there I saw a silver coloured shinny snake with its tail in the parlour and head at the passage standing there. Mogbe!


You get to see the full speed I used in walking backwards.**Thank God the room door was closed**


That was how I opened door to call anybody that was available in my BIL' s room oh. But, for where! Nobody was there!


I started calling out in the darkness for any available person rather I started hearing some funny noise, then I said to myself, it is better to die inside house than to come and die outside.


As soon as I jammed the door, a boy that was staying with my BIL came and that was how I called him to come help me kill a snake.


Omo ehn! We searched and couldn't find the snake, so I used the boy's phone to call my oga that there's a snake in the house oh. By this time I was sweating profusely.


Shortly after, oga and his friend came, they searched everywhere but no snake was found and everybody started doubting me.
Sincerely, I too doubted myself. I thought maybe, the thought of the snake that man talked about was what made me think I saw a snake.


I went to room to sleep, something cold was touching my leg, I said to myself, they said a snake is cold oh, I opened my eyes it was a remote, I pushed it down with my legs.


Shortly after, I started hearing the sound of cutlass. That was how I jumped out of the room, lo and behold, my oga was going to pee and saw the snake beside the toilet bowl and killed it.


Lord! I have never seen such kind of snake in my life. As in, pure silver colour.


Back to the gist**


So, 2 days after my 3rd appointment which was on Saturday, after cooking in the morning, at about past 12 p.m, was about dishing my food**I'm a late eater. I can stay without eating till 4-6pm sometimes, I'm just like that** then, I felt something hit my womb and forced me to bend down.


I decided to go massage to know what's wrong with me.
Went there, the woman touched me and said I was in labour.


Haba nah! How can I be in labour when I'm supposed to deliver next month.
She laughed and said next month ke, you will deliver any moment from now. Ha!


That was how I went to the lady that sells baby things and asked her to borrow me her phone to call oga.


Called thrice number wasn't going through, then on the 4th call it went through and I asked him to come.


By this time, no baby things were even bought, was expecting to buy by month end.


I went home and started washing clothes but, I started feeling some kind of little little pains that lasted for few seconds then stop and comes back every 5 minutes.


I said, this one don pass be careful, and that was how I went and started arranging my old baby stuffs and by the time oga came, he told me he had called my sister to come. We left home around past 4 p.m.


Got to hospital, the nurse checked me and shouted "why are you coming by this time? Abi you want born for house?
I said no na, that the pains just begun and they weren't even serious.


The pains kept coming at every 5 minutes and stops after few second.
And whenever the pains come, the nurse will be fanning me cos there wasn't light and she was the only one on duty that day, I would cry and shout till it stops.


When the pains come, I will tell her I want to push, she will tell me not to cos it wasn't time yet.
My eyes started turning me.
My sis was sent to go buy me glucose.


At a point, I couldn't bear the pains no more so I had to push. By this time, the nurse wasn't ready, when she saw the baby popping out she rushed to catch.

She had accident previously so in the process of rushing to catch my baby, her leg bone shifted. That was past 6 p.m.weighed 3kg.

Baby started crying like they were pinching him. After cleaning, he was kept on my body and he stopped crying.
We got transferred to another room.


I was given drip.


The talk my kids, sister were talking and the cry of my baby just seemed like whispers from some distance to me.


When oga finally came with his friend, which was like a trance to me cos, within me, I was fighting for my life but nobody knew. They greeted me, I fought back to answer. When the drip finished, I got fit.


Got discharged after the drip.
She advised I shouldn't be allowed to walk by myself or do anything.
And that I should shut my eyes as I was being wheeled out else I fall.
I was wheeled on a wheelchair to the taxi.


It was the following day while baby was being bathed that we noticed his cord was whitish, as in, when somethings premature. And his toenails weren't formed and the fingers were just forming.


My sister left 3 days later.
I normally have this serious stomach pains after delivery **don't know what it's called** and it would last for days before it stops.


But this one was on another level. Mehn.
If I carry a cup of water or I walk few steps, oh God! I would cry for long before it would stop and start shortly after.


How person go do nah? I had to manage like that to take care of the children for school and house chores.


You know, when you have a man who doesn't care about what pain you pass through but only dresses and go out very early in the morning and comes back whenever he likes telling you to try.


On the night of the day my sister left, I cleaned him up, was holding the gripe water I was about giving him and reading the instructions then the stomach pains came. Jeez, that pain!


After the pains subsided, I now gave him the supposed gripe water I was holding only for him to start behaving like I had given him pepper.


I said, ha! Why is this one behaving like this for something he'd been taking since yesterday?


My people, then and only then did I start perceiving the small of a methylated spirit. God! How? How? How?
Cos, I was very sure it's the gripe water I was holding then, so what's the mystery?


I said God, I have killed my baby with my hands.
I rushed to the kitchen, grab the bottle of palm oil, pour enough in his mouth that his whole clothe was soaked in the oil.

He vomited and the vomit was just smelling spirit spirit.

To God be the glory, he's 3 years 3 months old.

Stella, attached are photos of us for your viewing alone.
Bvs, don't be angry oh.

WOW your kids photos are so fineeee....Lucky you!