- The second time around wasn’t a bed of roses
UZEZI ADESITE

Childbirth! It is better experienced than imagined.
Late 2011, just a few weeks after my first marriage anniversary, we were excited to learn that we were expecting out first baby. We had decided to wait a year after marriage before trying for a baby and that was what we did.
As a family, we wanted to have a daughter first. That was what we communicated to God. I had also learnt about gender selection, understanding one’s cycle and ovulation to know the right time to conceive a boy or a girl child. So I put my knowledge to test and God honoured the desires of our hearts.

I would describe my pregnancy with my daughter as a bed of roses. Yes. It is one of those nine months any woman would love to have. It was symptoms free. Except for a few days of excruciating abdominal pains in my second month which the doctor described as my body trying to abort, and placing me on one week of bed rest, every other day, week and month was a wow. I didn’t show early and I came through nine months without a stretch mark on my belly.

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Wow! So interesting. The joy children brings makes one forget about the pain. Motherhood is indeed honourable and the most 'enjoyable' feeling. Thanks for sharing.

nk:
Wow! So interesting. The joy children brings makes one forget about the pain. Motherhood is indeed honourable and the most 'enjoyable' feeling. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for reading.

@zayzee, a very good write up. What did you do about your diastasis recti. Is the gap closed now?

hotmum:
@zayzee, a very good write up. What did you do about your diastasis recti. Is the gap closed now?

Thanks hotmum. I am still working on it and it is almost closed thankfully. My belly is getting firmer and shrinking so I am happy, but I am still conscious of the little bump. The exercises for preparing it are not that strenuous and can be done anytime.