God is great. I rejoice with you. May God continue to protect the baby

Omakraid:
BS! BS!! BS!!
Get ready, it's going to be a verrrryyyyyyyyy long ride...

Been TTCing since we got married but we had issues with doing the do as hubby was a V (innocent bro) so we just dropped baby issues jare until people started asking questions (his people o) so we resumed trying. Fast forward to 2020 around August, I missed my p and ignorantly washed off my baby with the delicious, well flavoured zobo I prepared myself .. I had terrible cramps and passed out tissue, the blood wasn't here (that was the last time I tasted zobo till this month).. I had infection, treated it and we continued trying...

Nov 2020, started having weird dreams of bleeding. Like I would dream I'm sharing the good news of pregnancy with hubby and in that same dream I would start bleeding and the next day in real life I would start bleeding (the exact consistency and volume of blood would be just as it is in the dream) . Didn't take it serious that Nov until it happened Dec, I started waking up in prayers, Jan same and I told hubby and we started battling it together, Same February (what's going on we've been praying na) but we did not relent. March came and it was as if my prayer would never be answered but God did answer. I had a dream where I was on a bed in a strange room and while wondering why I was there I saw ropes on the floor and a candle lit by the bed.. I decided to burn the ropes gradually with the fire from the candle but while about to do that a strange hand grabbed the rope and was holding what it called my womb, turned it upside down to drain the content and was trying to tie it in my presence. I started praying and calling the blood of Jesus in that dream and the hand dropped all and disappeared. That was our victory though I know there'll always be battles.

God answered us with my March LMP/April ovulation but hubby and I treated Staph Aureus just after I ovulated (I told the doctor that I just finished ovulating but he said I shouldn't worry) and took very strong injections which I think caused the MC I had in June, I also had recurrent fever (which I was scared to treat) so I don't know which one in particular caused it. The foetus dropped in my toilet after terrible hours of pain and I dipped my hand, brought it out and took it to the hospital where I was sent for scan which showed remnants that needed to be expelled (I remember also asking questions and posting the picture here). After the painful evacuation, I didn't even have power to cry or brood though my heart was heavy, I just wanted to move on and I gave thanks to God because He did it and would do another. I went to work the next day as I didn't have strength to sit and let the devil bring in unholy thoughts into my heart even though I was still in pain from the evacuation but anything asides sitting at home was better for me.

‌My mind was also made up to start immediately even though Google said whatever. I went for a scan which showed infection after I completed the antibiotics given at the hospital and I got another set of drugs which cleared me and we started again. God came through with the July LMP and here we are..

First trimester was with mild symptoms, no vomiting or spitting except that I was always feverish which I ran quickly to get a test done at 8 weeks and it was discovered to be typhoid but my doctor treated both typhoid and malaria and also placed me on duphaston.... Around 11 weeks I started going everywhere with two food flasks, it was as if I would die if I didn't eat. Also had this terrible cough they would cause pain in my ribs, drugs didn't work but thank God, honey and warm water did. Registered for antenatal at 16 weeks and I was given Amalar, prenatals and my first TT injection and that was when my woes started.. The prenatals got me into a vomiting spree (I think it's cos I used them together instead of using them at separate times) and even when not used. Sometimes I'd just be feeling sick and feel like putting my hands in my throat to empty my belly.. My appetite also dropped from 2 food flasks to 1 and I was also managing myself while watching my weight cos I was almost breaking their scale at the hospital (me that use to be tiny)... The doctor would also wondered why I don't usually have complaints whenever I meet him cos plenty scans even before pregnancy said there's fibroid somewhere (but e no concern me, me I no get am) and he said the fibroid he thought would disturb me isn't disturbing, I didn't even answer as I know I don't have it. Heartburn was the order of the day cos rice o, swallow o, fruits o, even water o gives me heartburn.

Third trimester knocked with pelvic pains, plenty heat, blackness on my neck with plenty rashes, cough and little cravings... I never get satisfied if what I eat is not what I'm craving but I managed around it as money was overflowing to be eating cravings up and down (irony). Mind you I was still very active at work with climbing of stairs as the order of the day.. FF to 36 weeks and I had this terrible cough induced Rib-like contractions, i couldn't do anything but groan like one in labour (mhen what kind of labour happens in the ribs), had an x-ray done, there was nothing so I was given injections and pain reliefs..
Was very hopeful that labour would start before 40 weeks but for where, no show oo. Zeal to exercise went down to zero though i still took walking serious, dem say pineapple and dates dey help, me na so so mango I dey buy, how I go con do na? Doc said he'd sweep me at 39 wks, I no remind am thinking labour will start before 40wks, lailai. I had the sweep at week 40 and was hopeful of positivity. 40wks 2dys, saw mucus plug and was left hanging again. Did all I could do so I don't end up getting to the 41 weeks but it seemed my baby was enjoying the taste of the mangoes I was always taking. Took dates, pineapple, zobo yet there was no painful contraction just the braxton hicks... I called my doctor he said I'll come in for induction that Saturday but we couldn't go in on Saturday so we went on Sunday @41wks 1dy as I didn't fall into labour at all... That morning I was feeling this deceitful painful contraction and I called the doctor, he told me to come to the hospital that I'm not going back home without my baby.. Hubby and I left in the evening. On getting there my vitals were checked and my cervix was checked, cervix hasn't started opening (Yeeh), The doctor lectured DH about induction and how it sometimes ends so that he can be open to the outcome, he then broke Misoprostol into 4 and put a very tiny piece inside somewhere I can't remember the name after which he told the 2nd doc to check for dilation by 1:30am (Monday after 6 hours). I went back to the ward, I was exercising while gisting with hubby and when I was tired I laid down.. Wanted to pee but discovered I couldn't so I told the 2nd doctor who inserted my catheter and a urine bag. Lest I forgot, I also saw blood while in the hospital there.
Baby's heartbeat was also being checked frequently and it was consistently OK until around 1am when it was checked again, it started well but suddenly started dropping and becoming faint. My gynae was called and he came in immediately checked me and I was only 2cm dilated after 6hrs of groaning, he checked the heartbeat too and we all heard it. He told us we have to go straight into the theater as the baby’s life is very important right now.... Sharp sharp I was shaved and headed to the theatre even when hubby hadn't finished signing the consent form(since he had consented with his mouth).. Entering the theatre and lying down, everyone got busy that was when Gen went off, the doctor shouted what happened (the one who ought to get fuel didn't remember to get it, their solar too didn't come on and I heard him tell everyone one to bring out their phones. I was given general anaesthesia so I didn't know what happened again.. Hubby witnessed all cos I had already spoken to the doctor thinking it would be VD and I had also told him to behave himself so he's not sent out. So he was allowed to stay and watch through the curtain partition in the theater.

I woke up in the ward feeling dizzy and asking for my head and hand to be adjusted, I was seeing hubby faintly and he was telling me the baby is here with joy oo but I kept requesting for adjustment. I forgot I was there to give birth, it was later when my brain processed the whole thing I remembered and asked him for a picture of our baby which he showed.. It was when my brain was clearer that he told me of how the baby was brought out not breathing and the doctor had to start blowing air and tapping her seriously. He said the doctor repeated the action again and again until she cried or is it whimpered but with the way she was breathing, her respiratory tract had been blocked by whatever she swallowed and on her own she cant supply her body oxygen that will go round so she needed to be assisted using oxygen. She finished up 3 small tanks and continued with the biggest oxygen tank as her level on and off the tank was being monitored, no food or glucose water sef cos they said they didn't want anything interrupting her airways due to the was she was breathing.. She was just getting skinny and skinny, always crying that I had to use pacifier to keep her calm sometimes (baby that came out weighing 2.5kg oo)

Before, during and after the whole thing, they didn't even request for deposit until Tuesday afternoon when they wanted to bring in a paediatrician to also check her. Her Oxygen level increased from lass than 40 to 46 to 60 something and 70 something... The paediatrician said until we get to 93 and above and it remains consistent without her being on oxygen, we go nowhere... After much complaints of how skinny she is and that her cry that can wake a small village, I was eventually told to express milk in her cup from which 30ml was measured and she took 22ml. Next dose is in the next 6hrs (at least half bread is better than chinchin), she took 24ml at the next dose and gulped it all at the next one. I complained again abbot's the timing was reduced to 4hrs but same 30ml, I complained that its not enough that she's dehydrated and its the reason she started having fever (her temp would rise to 38.5 in the afternoon) then the pead said we should express and give her when she's hungry. I said OK but when she was hungry, I covered her with the blood of Jesus and sanctified the breast milk and gave her directly, that was what I did throughout the night, when the 2nd doctor came in the morning I told her what I did and she said okay, my main gynae came and caught us sucking then he monitored her breathing while feeding and said we should continue and that was how my angel whose body was almost drying up started regaining flesh gradually.. All this while the oxygen thingy was on and off so that her level will be monitored but she was placed on one more small tank.. Her afternoon rise in temperature still persisted and they had to change the antibiotics being given to her to some very painful ones which got us massive improvement. As of yesterday without man's oxygen, she was 93 and this morning her reading was 95. My baby is now looking like a baby. Her naming was done in our ward (we are the only occupants) this morning with just 4 of us in attendance (DH, self, MIL & our senior pastor).

Thanks to everyone who made my stay in this preggers group eventful, it was worth it..
Thanks to my DH too (we were preggy together), even in this our hospital omugwo, I comot cap for him.. Sometimes he looks at the baby especially when her vitals goes low and feels like crying but just man up, me I cried when temperature refused to go down and I was like God has given you to us and won't take you away from us and by the grace of God we will be going home tomorrow.

I pray God will deliver all mums here safely without complications by His grace and bless the womb of every GTC mums with their own testimonies..
Please manage this small story of my life...

Cc Cappo Expectantmom

mzMerci:









Thank you mamas for the kind words and prayers. God bless you.
Update: the drugs are working well so contractions have stopped (last one was at 1.30am). The fibroid is degenerating and the pain is what stimulated contractions. My doctors are trying to stall delivery to 36weeks but I’ve gotten 2doses of dexamethasone injection to hasten lung maturity. I’ll be 35 weeks tomorrow and the baby’s weight as at yesterday was 2.8kg hence my major duty is to eat very well to increase his weight to at least 3.3kg by this Friday and 3.5kg by 36 weeks so he won’t be small (to decrease chances of NICU admission).
This will definitely end in praise in Jesus name

Do U actually want the baby at dat 36weeks? If no, pls declare what you want to God. I can remember when I av pains at 26weeks and was told I av small fibroid and datz wat's causing false labour. I kip holding my tummy and declaring the fibroid is not mine and all pains has to go because I ll carry dat baby to term and God answered my prayer

Layormiii:
snr teamie you mean you're having the Braxton Hicks too? For how many weeks now have you been having it.

You're too funny first time mother's ehn , why won't u know when ur wayer break u don see mucus? They say u will see mucus first nah abeg lemme oo

Since last 2weeks oo. The stuff increase in the midnight ehn, infact it looks like real labour jt dat it's nt so painful because once it hook me like dis,,, my tummy ll b so tight and to turn on d bed ll bcom war.
I con dey beg pikin to pls wait till 39/exact 40weeks b4 he turn real

Dem say no b everybody water dey break itself o bt I want mine to break itself o because God knows I ll kip assuming it's d false contraction if real labour cums because av had fibroid pain b4 at 26weeks so I ll kip assuming difft tins. FTM ar real novice asswear

Layormiii:
You people should not be tired of me o please

This stomach tightening/Braxton Hicks is so often now like 30minutes Or less interval. Nah so e dey do? E don even replace movement now
Shey nah so e dey do from 36weks?
You people should please answer me oo

My dear, ayaff accept my faith with dat ooo. Attyms I ll b like shey dis tin ll nt turn to normal contraction like dis, Dr jt tell me it's normal and am accepting it's normal. The only sign am expecting now is for water to break, dreamt of it self and now am imagining hw I want to know it's water dat break wen it's time or na my normal urine

mzMerci:
June teamies, e be like say I may port o. Started having preterm contractions (courtesy of the fibroid) since yesterday evening, had to rush back to the hospital early this morning. I’m back on admission and I’ve been placed on more drugs to stop the contraction and hasten my son’s lung maturation. My doctors are also prepping me for emergency CS incase it doesn’t stop (CS cos I’ve had 2 myomectomies and I hv placenta previa currently). I’m just 34weeks 5 days but my baby is 2.8kg. I really want him to hold on a bit longer till 36 weeks

God is Ur strength teamie, God ll do d best. The pains ll go(I believe) and Ur wish ll b done

mzMerci:
My friend gave birth this evening and I can’t stop daydreaming. Can it be June already?!!

June is right here mama. We'll also deliver safely and carry our bundle of joy

I was told today that mango increase baby weight alot, how true is this abeg because I can finish 4-5mangoes at a go and won't purge o

Layormiii:
That mama that was bullied by outsiders because she posted her story on this thread (can't remember her moniker), how's she doing? Anyone still in touch with her?
I hope you're fine mama and your LO too.
If you're seeing this you can just open another moniker and join your teamies without disclosing who you are. I know this thread was very useful for u alhaja

She's fine though said she's no more attending clinic and only drug she's using is folic acid

Flourishing19:


I think it's safe. I am in my second trimester and I have been eating it for almost 3weeks now without any strange feeling.

Thanks a lot ma'am

Pls is guava safe at any stage of pregnancy especially at 3rd trimester?

MorningStar233:


My dear we will manage the big tommy.. thank God for everything sha..I don't think Lipton is too good.

God ll see us through o

MorningStar233:


Mime weighed 3.3Kg, at that same stage abi at 36weeks sef.. I stopped taking coke, malt etal. But na tea I never fit stop...I don't know how the weight will be now sef

You try oooo, my tummy heavy with this 3.1kg ehn no b small. I do take ice cream, yogurt nd malt well bt I av to stop nw o, Dunno if Lipton tea ll work for reduction make I start nw

Layormiii:
maybe from 38 weeks u can start taking dates and pineapple.
Me I took chilled zobo last week o, infact during antenatal we get customer wey dey come sell zobo steady for pregnant women chilled one o. If it's harmful the nurses for don talk nah
Don't forget nipple cleaning too, with coconut oil

Thanks jare teamie, make I drink my zobo jeje b dat. Dat nipple cleaning, na God go help me, it's once in a while wen I remember bt ll b serious wit it now

Layormiii:
yes I heard that too

Av bn doing this but not constant on it sha, jt start ewedu journey too(hoping I ll b able to stay constant wit it).
Dates, Pineapple and zobo, when can one start abeg. Dey v bn tempting me but I don't want labour to cum anytym in May because am not ready for it stall though am tired already.

We are 37weeks today and baby weighs 3.1kg today, hope the weight is not too much for this stage abeg.

Dr didnt tell me whether it's big or not, he jt said make I dey take only water, no more soft drinks or yogurt for me again

Layormiii:
Hello mamas, was told eating enough sugarcane esp during third tri helps prevent having a baby with jaundice.
Just passing the info here for anyone that needs it

Heard of unripe pawpaw water too. Soak unripe pawpaw insyd water and b drinkin d water like agbo

Layormiii:
ehen.. started using my Last menstrual date again instead of a scam date I was using will be 36 on Wednesday.. and this one our baby is behaving the same the same

Bn using my LMD since day 1 o, I no dey even look the date on d scan result and my hospital self dey always calculate base on dat LMP. Na twins dey wan be if body no change dere date

Omakraid:
B.A

To God be the glory, great things He hath done.. We Welcomed our cute angel this midnight at around 2 am (so I heard) via CS. B.S will be updated as soon as I'm well enough by God's grace

Thanks to everyone for checking on me, I can't start mentioning your monikers now but I'm so grateful..

I pray for safe delivery for all waddling mums and may God bless the womb of GTC moms with the fruit of the womb sooner than they expect. Amen

So happy to read this oo, congratulations mama. May God bless the baby and the family

Layormiii:
Good evening mamas, My Los activity has really reduced. Tho I know he is in there, but for for days now or so he rarely moves or kick on his own onless I cajole him like touch my belly for a long time, shake it or something like that, and he just move to tell me he is in there and that's all, till I touch him again.. at 35wks fah. Even his dad noticed.
Going to do scan tomorrow Sha just to be sure, if to say I no dey use general hospital and my doctors are easy to access I for go hospital straight sef.
Any reason to be worried or is that how baby boys do?

Same as mine, the activity really reduce and be like he's just on on spot. Private good aswear, I for go sharperly bt had to wait till ANC day again. Hw cum 35weeks, thought U ll b 37weeks by Wed

mzMerci:
June people, vomiting dey show me pepper.. I vomit literally every 2 days. My food rarely digests. As soon as I’m done vomiting, my baby kicks repeatedly and tickles my insides. Lol. I’m so looking forward to delivery. I don try abeg. 3 weeks to term. I no even mind 36 weeks at this point so far my baby and I are safe. God is my strength

My tired is tired, av change my drug to night because of vomit nd nt everytym again self. My left syd tummy jt dey bloated asif na only dere pikin wan use as Ouse, I had to slap dat syd yesterday and tell d pikin to balance. Leg wey swell no wan cum down, I woke up more dan 4times in the midnight to urinate and stomach pain still dey worry me asif am having contractions already, abi it's time for the baby to come out ni

Layormiii:
I don't think there's any cause for alarm.. Sha make sure u eat enough and u rest enough too. Still working?

Still working o, don't want my leave to start counting when av not given birth

Layormiii:
chaii one thing I can't wait to stop doing is routine drugs, imagine swallowing drugs almost everyday since October fah.. chaii
I hope say u dey do small small Waka because of the leg swelling. And try reduce ur salt too. Mine also come and go.
It is well mama

Na me dem suppose dey call Ajala travel self, I do waka gan o

NeroPapas:


It's a sort of tummy discomfort in babies. It's really discomforting with some babies crying or like mine, squeezing . It doesn't stop them from growing sha and it stops by the time they hit 3 months.

Experience mamas can add to this

Thanks daddy, U gt experience pass we mamas self

MamaDG:
please remember to come and tell us if the coconut water work for Collic so we can use it too. Thanks

What's colic ejor

Layormiii:
Mamas I told my dr I sometimes feel light headed and dizzynso she said I should stop pregnacare and start using Astyfer and vitamin c once daily.
I am 35weeks please I hope it's safe for me.
I Google it Sha
And Is it advicable to take anti malaria drugs at 35weeks? I thought we can't take it after 34;weeks.. lol, am just looking for excuse not to take this fansidar drugs because e dey show me sheygeh

I do feel dizzy too bt didn't bother to complain thinking it's normal since pregnant women do sleep alot, hp am nt wrong bayi

Layormiii:
Another anti malaria drugs day :

I don finish mine tey tey when I complain of weakness and malaria test shows negative o.
Using d routine drugs is now giving me tiring oo, I feel like not taking it atall, attyms I vomit it once I put it in my mouth self and it's jt a single dose o.
Leg swelling nko, my legs start swelling last week and it refuse to go down o. It's seriously getting me worried and annoying jare

MGeey:


Not safe. I will recommend using only one bike that will be coming to pick you everyday. Pay him double and tell him you just had an operation. He'll ride you gently (now why does that last line sound weird )

You made me laugh sha, aboki man go hear operation

Layormiii:
honestly bike is not so safe o, especially in first tri, I remember my doctor telling me in my first tri to stop taking bike totally for that 12weeks.
But since there's no other alternative, I'd say, avoid Hausa/aboki bikes, the rider should be elderly, run away from all those small boys bike, nah Dem dey drive nonsense pass

And before climbing always warn them not to run, add abeg if possible remember to always caution them during the ride if they are running too much or entering gallop.

Don't worry, God's gat you mama

Some will still run and enter those gallop carelessly especially those aboki riders wey don't fold dere bike hand finish , I can remember avin serious pain wen I drop from a bike last week all because he didn't listen so no stage is safe bt cautioning them is very very important.

PrincessVivi:
Good evening Mamas in the house. How safe is it to fly bike on rough roads at a very early stage of pregnancy? No other alternate means of transportation to my work place.

Always instruct dem to go gently since there's no alternate means of transport. U can come down from anyone wey no wan hear and enter another one, las las na talk d bike man go talk; av entered one b4 dat I shouted at him and he was like dat's y he didn't like carrying pregnant woman and if he knws am pregnant in, he won't carry me and I reply him back by saying shebi eye dey pain him to c my belle.

Hoelujohn:

Iyanapaja or oshodi

Na Lagos market I knw for those area

Hoelujohn:
Good evening mothers in the house. Please Kindly assist with location where affordable and quality baby things can be bought in Lagos.

Which side of Lagos

Abeg wetin Una dey buy apart from hospital list, I mean the general list because I ll check my list and be like wetin people dey buy again. I will like to see a list if Una get oo make I knw wetin I neva buy or things I suppose buy. I wan go market to complete my buying next week or upper week o make pikin no comot shock from my leg and cum in May

Also, who has price idea for set of tommee tippee feeding bottle pls