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kokaiye:
its colic... Go get ur baby infacol to help ease d pain... Baby stomach is still developing so getting milk digested in their stomach is quite a stress 4 d developing stomach hence d discomfort... Passing gas through mouth/anus causes discomfort for babies as well... But infancol may help ur child reduced and ease those discomfort... U can give infancol til baby is okay and discomfort is gone.

Thank you so much. We will get it ASAP.

Good day all Mommas and Poppas here,

Pls help a first-time Dad.

Our baby seems to have serious painful stomach ache especially immediately after feeding.

She's 6 weeks old and fed combination of formula and breast milk.

Please how can we help her? Any drugs that can be recommended?

Enskynelson:
It's possible. Fill change of study centre form at Abagana and get a copy of it which you should upload to support site. It's a normal thing

Thank you sir.

Good morning everyone,

Please how possible is it to change my study centre from Abagana to Umudike?

I got redeployed because of work and have abandoned my study for over 3 years now.

It's MSc. I have finished the whole coursework and written the exams. Just remaining my Project. And I can't run it at my current Study centre froy current location.

Any help or suggestions please.

Acidosis:
Congratulations to you and your family. I can’t imagine what you’ve been through! But, I have a few thoughts about your experience at the government hospital.

The same frustrating and bureaucratic system you mentioned is the reason I still can’t forgive myself for my wife’s death at a government (teaching) hospital. My wife and I initially started at a private hospital, where everything was going smoothly until an issue arose, and we had to switch hospitals (that’s a story for another day).

While we were still at the private hospital, we went through a few episodes of threatened miscarriages, intense vomiting (no food stays in her stomach for weeks), and bleeding at different times, yet her pregnancy remained intact. Her experience was tough, and we had to undergo a cervical cerclage at 16 weeks, which was successful at the private hospital.

Because of "that issue," we had to move to a government hospital at 24+ weeks, based on her consultant’s advice and other people's recommendations. On the day she was to deliver, I was, as usual, given a prescription to get Vitamin K1. I searched the entire hospital (which has more than 10 pharmacies), but it was nowhere to be found. I then went to some of the largest private pharmacies in Ikeja, Opebi/Allen, and Ogba (Alpha Pharmacy, Boluke, Healthplus, etc.), but still couldn’t find it. By the time I returned to the hospital, about 2-3 hours later, my wife had already delivered our babies. One of the babies came out pale and needed a blood transfusion. Meanwhile, my wife was still in pain and hadn’t recovered. But thankfully, the husband of a friend my wife made at the ward was able to help with blood test and all. Like my wife, his wife was pregnant and also admitted.

Anyone who has used a government hospital knows that they won’t give a patient even basic medication like paracetamol unless someone is there to pay and get the drug. Throughout the time my wife was admitted to the government hospital, every blood test required me to go get the collection bottle from one location, find a nurse to draw her blood, take the sample to another location, and then return hours or a day later to get the results and bring them to the doctor. I did this every day for a week—I suffered ehn! This was something we never experienced at the private hospital; all we had to do was pay. I hustled for every single thing myself: the blood we needed in case of an emergency after the C-section was gotten from another private blood bank, the RhoGAM injection she was to take after delivery 'cos of her (-) Rhesus factor, and more. It was a horrible experience.

I can’t write out everything here, but one thing is certain: some of the people who advised us to use a government hospital for the "best care" later admitted that "private hospitals are better." The only advice I can give anyone is to follow their heart.

My wife had already delivered our babies before 4 p.m., but they kept her in bed over 5 hours later until she died. During my research, I later learned that the global standard for women who undergo C-sections is to get them moving/walking as soon as possible to prevent blood clots. Want to know how my wife died, according to the hospital? Pulmonary embolism (a blood clot). And guess what happened to the other man’s wife, the friend my wife made? She died two days later in the same hospital.

I’m sharing this here because my wife was a devoted follower of this thread.

Another thing I’ll point out: doctors in both private and government hospitals are often no different. Many of them work in private practice and are rarely available to check on their patients' progress. The consultant who attended to my wife throughout our stay at the private hospital was the same person who performed her C-section. This same doctor works in four additional private hospitals. So, what they do is deliver your baby and then leave. Maybe that’s standard medical practice, I wouldn’t know. However, one thing I’m sure of is that my experience wouldn’t have been as bad in a proper private hospital. A private hospital also wouldn’t have abandoned us the way they did my family. Two nurses who were friends with my wife (she was extremely likable, and everyone loved her during her stay) called to check on us and couldn't hold back the tears. One even laid heavy curses on the doctors cos she knows how they operate. But there was no follow-up regarding the babies’ health and progress. Dem no send anybody papa. Well, I have since moved my family elsewhere. Lessons have been learned in the most painful and devastating way.


Sorry for the long post, and congratulations once again to you and your family.

This is heart-wrenching to read. You're absolutely correct, there's no one-size-fit-all way to this. I guess it's largely down to luck and chance at the end.

May your wife's soul RIP. Take heart, brother.

dharyor1234:
Congratulations

Ekabobo:
Congrats pappy

Thank you.

Hi everyone,

I have been a silent reader/follower on this thread and other similar threads on this fruit of the womb journey. It's not an easy one but it's all worth it in the end.

Got married in August 2022. First pregnancy in Nov 2022 but was lost at 6 weeks (blighted ovum). Wifey got pregnant again in January 2023. We lost the baby boy at 32+ weeks in utero in late Sept 2023 out of the Doctor's carelessness. Wifey was severely hypertensive and he didn't handle it well. It was a traumatic experience.

Wifey got pregnant again in December 2023 and we just welcomed our bundle of joy last week ending. This time around, we went to a Federal Hospital. Despite their bureaucracy and frustrating methods of doing things, they've enough capable and competent hands to care for one. Mother and baby are healthy and doing fine. Wifey was still hypertensive in this pregnancy but they followed it up bumper to bumper with enough dosage for both mother and fetus and her BP was always within normal range all through this pregnancy.

Few Lessons and tips from our experience:

- Federal Hospitals are much more better than Private clinics, if you can handle the stress. Most private Clinic Practitioners tend to be jack of all trades. It was later I found out the Doctor at the private clinic we initially went to wasn't even a Gynaecologist in the first place but he tends to pregnant women.

- Tracking of ovulation works. Wifey tracks her religiously and we do the BD at the peak periods.

- Pre-seed lubricant works wonders too in aiding conception. Though we didn't use in the last pregnancy because we weren't even expecting to conceive yet, we were just "having fun" but in previous times we used it with ovulation tracking, it works really well.

- We also did lifestyle changes. Cut out sugar, lost weight and exercised regularly.

Wishing baby dust to all Parents trying to conceive and to those already heavy, safe deliveries.

Now I can "enjoy" Father's day with my full chest.

The Landlord must be mentally ill and whoever is silly enough to sign this agreement, for a house they're paying for, deserves everything they get.

BlueAngel444:
Havertz to Madrid €70m

If this deal pulls through at that price, that would count as one of the biggest 419 jackpots of 2023!