God is great!

When Mrs. Prisca Ashiegbu struggled with her husband and finally got pregnant after seven years of fervent prayers to God for the fruit of the womb, she never imagined that she would have to go through so much sufferings and pain, waiting another two years before she eventually "pushed" the baby out.

Below is the story of this beautiful woman who got her first baby after nine years...
The nine years of childless marriage to her husband, Henry, was rough but the agaony was forgotten when she was delivered of her “miracle baby” on February 2, 2013.Married in January 2004, the couple who hail from Abazu village in Imo State was not so anxious about having a child in the first year of the marriage. However, they stated their journey of praying and waiting on God by the second year.

For many years, they went from one hospital to another searching for a solution to their childlessness and it was during one of such hospital visits that a scan revealed that Prisca had fibroid.

The doctors said the only solution was for Prisca to undergo surgery but the stories the couple heard about having surgery to remove fibroid didn’t encourage them to go on with the treatment.

“I have always had this phobia of going for surgery especially when it concerns fibroid. I have heard a lot of stories and the stories were not good. Many women had lost their lives in the process and we didn’t know where to go and who to trust. Some other stories we heard were that if one does not conceive within three months after removing the fibroid, it will grow back. I didn’t want my wife to go for the surgery because I had already made up my mind that I’ll rather remain childless than lose my wife to the ailment,” Henry, the husband said.

He further stated that in the search for a solution, they spent a lot of money. “We went to several hospitals and they all said the same thing. We were thinking of the best option that will help reduce the size of the fibroid and hope that pregnancy will occur. We went to a hospital in Abuja and were told that the fibroid could not even be operated upon at the level it was. My wife had to take injection that cost N35,000 each for a period of three months to reduce the size of the fibroid,” Henry added, stressing that when this too failed, they resorted to traditional medicine and were referred to a woman in Gwagwalada, who treated his wife following which she conceived.

He told Leadership that the joy of the pregnancy was cut short when several scans did not reveal the presence of a baby growing in his wife.

“There were physical changes to suggest that she was pregnant but everywhere we went to, they kept telling us what they could see was the fibroid and not a baby but the case was different for the traditional medicine practitioners who confirmed that she was indeed pregnant. The baby, according to the woman, who treated my wife was growing alongside the fibroid. The woman continued her treatment trying to reduce the size of the fibroid so that the baby will mature because the fibroid was delaying the growth of the foetus and when it was nine months, Prisca who is a teacher by profession applied for a maternity leave.

“The situation we were in is better imagined. I resumed and people were asking me how my baby was and I told them the baby was okay. But after three months, my stomach was still big and people became suspicious, with some wondering if I was pregnant again. In fact one of my students asked me if I was pregnant again,” Prisca said.

The couple was in a dilemma. They could not go for surgery as the doctors had not confirmed that the woman was pregnant while those who had confirmed the pregnancy did not have the requisite knowledge and equipment to operate on her. They resorted to prayers, hoping that a miracle should happen.

Prisca’s sister, Mrs. Justina Amadi, told them of a woman in Aba who could help them and when they got there, the woman who also works in a clinic examined her and told her that she felt the baby but when Prisca went for a scan in the same clinic, the baby was not seen.

From Aba, Henry, a staff of the Embassy of Iran, said they headed for Port Harcourt, where they had been told about a woman who was pregnant for one year and nine months and found her solution.

“Early December 2012, we went to Owerri. It was a woman who was a friend to my wife’s sister who directed us to Port Harcourt. She told us that if she had delivered after a year and nine months pregnancy, my wife should have faith that she too will deliver. She directed us to the person who helped her when everyone had given up,” Henry said, adding that after some initial challenges, they were able to locate the traditional medicine practitioner, who examined his wife and confirmed that there was a baby and the baby was still alive.

“She said because the fibroid was sharing space with the baby, the baby wasn’t mature so she will have to place me on treatment for one month and give me medicine that will make the fibroid shrink and give the baby space to grow. This was happening in December, 2012. We started the treatment and we saw progress,” Prisca narrated, adding that after one month, the woman told her she could come for delivery as the baby would have been mature by then.

We went there on a Monday and on Tuesday, I continued with the exercise. I started dancing all kinds of dance steps including those I danced as a child. Everyone was calling, they were worried. She later gave me another drug and after I took it, I started purging. Around 12.30pm, she told me that it was time. I didn’t even feel any labour pains and within a period of 15 minutes,the baby was born. My sister was crying. It was really a miracle,” she said.

The birth of Emmanuel Ebubechukwu, the miracle baby, brought joy to his parents. They have taken their experience as a way God wanted to use them to help and encourage other people in similar situations.




http://www.kemifilani.com/2013/05/woman-delivers-her-baby-after-being.html

I thank God on her behalf.

Hmmmmm.... This is a serious miracle.

Its impossible. Even 11mths is near impossible. And fibroids don't allow pregnancies to stay longer except if its blocking the passage (lower part). On the contrary, fibroids usually cause early termination of pregnancy resulting in either a miscarriage or a premature delivery. God has so designed the fetus that after 9mths the placenta begins to degenerate and cannot keep up with providing nutrition for the baby - that's why just before 42 weeks, the pregnant woman is either induced artificially or made to undergo a cesarean section. But of course, you can choose to believe whatever u want.

congrats

annoymous: Its impossible.

All things are possible to him that believes.

CONGRATULATION

Hmm..congrats..

Ectopic pregnancy.

She probably had serious gonorhea

corn gra twolation

Wa o, thank God!

@Op, the title should have been: Woman Delivered of Baby After Two Years Pregnancy

Ohhh ...nice

Lilimax: All things are possible to him that believes.

Some things don't just work that way. I know this story will sell and probably go viral (this is Nigeria) but facts will always be facts.

The lord is truely wonderful

not scientifically or medically proven, Port Harcourt is now a miracle center for all manner of phantom painless baby deliveries.

Hmm! Obatala has done it again

Thanks be to God !

MEHN... GREAT CHILD

Good news, congratulations

What a mighty God we serve.

I'm happy for her but mehn this fibroid ish is scary o.

annoymous: Its impossible. Even 11mths is near impossible. And fibroids don't allow pregnancies to stay longer except if its blocking the passage (lower part). On the contrary, fibroids usually cause early termination of pregnancy resulting in either a miscarriage or a premature delivery. God has so designed the fetus that after 9mths the placenta begins to degenerate and cannot keep up with providing nutrition for the baby - that's why just before 42 weeks, the pregnant woman is either induced artificially or made to undergo a cesarean section. But of course, you can choose to believe whatever u want.

Thank you! please educate these folks.

Doesn't it make sense that she would have had a c section by the 10th month? Who wrote this national enquirer story?

She has been given someone's baby from these "miracle baby factories" in nigeria. She is now telling us her mind blowing lies.

which one we go come believe?

Where are the medical records to show that she had been pregnant for 2years? In Naija, scientific facts are not believed, but we are consumer of scientific discoveries like BB, IPhone, medicine, Internet etc. This story is false and should be trashed!

How can her doctors let that woman suffer for so long risking her life? What happened to INDUCING LABOUR or a C-SECTION

I don't believe this crap biko

annoymous: Its impossible. Even 11mths is near impossible. And fibroids don't allow pregnancies to stay longer except if its blocking the passage (lower part). On the contrary, fibroids usually cause early termination of pregnancy resulting in either a miscarriage or a premature delivery. God has so designed the fetus that after 9mths the placenta begins to degenerate and cannot keep up with providing nutrition for the baby - that's why just before 42 weeks, the pregnant woman is either induced artificially or made to undergo a cesarean section. But of course, you can choose to believe whatever u want.

exactly.

the "baby" would be no more and would be nothing short of a cancerous-like parasite that could kill the mother.

who ever puts these threads on FP clearly has a sense of humor and are just waiting for the "mschew"s and insults.

annoymous: Its impossible. Even 11mths is near impossible. And fibroids don't allow pregnancies to stay longer except if its blocking the passage (lower part). On the contrary, fibroids usually cause early termination of pregnancy resulting in either a miscarriage or a premature delivery. God has so designed the fetus that after 9mths the placenta begins to degenerate and cannot keep up with providing nutrition for the baby - that's why just before 42 weeks, the pregnant woman is either induced artificially or made to undergo a cesarean section. But of course, you can choose to believe whatever u want.

Our people refuse to be educated and refuse to learn. . .The story on the OP is a made up lie. . .

annoymous: Its impossible. Even 11mths is near impossible. And fibroids don't allow pregnancies to stay longer except if its blocking the passage (lower part). On the contrary, fibroids usually cause early termination of pregnancy resulting in either a miscarriage or a premature delivery. God has so designed the fetus that after 9mths the placenta begins to degenerate and cannot keep up with providing nutrition for the baby - that's why just before 42 weeks, the pregnant woman is either induced artificially or made to undergo a cesarean section. But of course, you can choose to believe whatever u want.

God- the Unchangeable Changer!

It's not impossible that this story is true.

Same way He made Sarah at age 90 to conceive and be delivered of baby Isaac.

Praise His holy name.

@ Ototx

You're very right...

A friend of mine called me sometime last year that she was coming to ph to have her baby and needed to stay with me. She said that she was pregnant but some weeks into the pregnancy she spotted heavily and when she went for check up the doctor told she's suffered a miscarriage.

But her pastor told her she was still pregnant... That her enemies are concealing the pregnancy, the child is a great child.... I was like wtf? I advised her to go for scan, which she did and The scan proved my suspicion, she indeed was not pregnant... She refused to believe the doctor and went on as if she was still expecting.
Then a friend of hers gave her the number of woman in port Harcourt who can take her case. She came to ph, stayed at my place, went for check up the next day and the mysterious lady told her she will be due in 2 months. Meanwhile, she claimed to be about 18 months into her pregnancy. I told something was off and asked how she was examined she said the lady massaged her stomach and told her the baby was still kicking and her case was a special one... bla... bla... Then she was billed N950,000. All my advice to her failed.
She came 2months later paid the bills and had her baby. It was a boy with no resemblance to either parent. How could she have been so gullible?

Congrats to her .

Since I'm entitled to my own opinion, I would say that I DON'T BELIEVE this story . shikenan.