04/01/2025
So as many were crossing over the new year. My friend and his wife were being sorrowful. His wife who was over 37 weeks old pregnant with twins was rushed to the hospital.
Before then she had observed that through out that day, she wasn’t feeling any movement of the babies and was feeling pains.
She informed her husband who suggested that they visit the hospital. But she thought the movement would come.
When it didn’t happen, she got uncomfortable and couldn’t wait anymore. Then she and her husband went to the hospital. They were in the hospital for about 2 hours without being attended to.
Eventually, when they saw the doctor. He tried listening to the heart beats of the babies using the fetal stethoscopes. Unfortunately, nothing was heard. There was no movement also. The doctor advised that the woman get scanned. She was.
Following, they broke the news to her that her babies were dead.
I had to go see them in the hospital as they already told my friend that those babies has to be brought out of the woman.
When I saw her. She was drenched in tears. She told me that we should take her to another hospital. She said, her babies are not dead. That she had told God.
I could understand that the most painful of all for a mother, is to part way with her children. The incomparable bond. I was equally weeping.
She kept telling me, she wants to go to another hospital. Her husband said the other hospital they are registered is General, which will not be easy to see the doctor. But she kept insisting.
So, I told my friend that we should take her to general as requested. Reluctantly he agreed. Through out, she kept praying. Praying in pains. Repeating repeatedly that her babies are not dead.
We got there. Spent another one hour and the doctor confirmed the same thing.
My friend has his HMO running in the previous private hospital, so we had to return back to the hospital.
On the way, the pain got intensified. It was unbearable. We begin to pray, telling Go
