- 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.
