#PregnancyTales by #BaabaCofie is a series of pregnancy and fertility- related true life stories of Ghanaian families.
My husband couldn’t visit his parents for fear of the issue coming up again- “get yourself a woman who can give you children”, they have insisted several times. He didn’t particularly blame them but he wanted to be a faithful man.
As I sat on the bus on my way back home from seeing the 7th fertility specialist, my tear-swollen eyes could produce no more water as my heart could no longer bear the anguish. It has been 13 long years of struggling with infertility and I heard the worst news ever- my egg quality was so bad that even an IVF is unlikely to help me. I need another woman’s egg to be fused with my husband’s sperm. How will he ever agree to this?
10 years ago
After I had two miscarriages two years before, I was put on a pill for a month to stabilize my cycle but for the past two years, I had not conceived. “God’s time is the best”, my husband always said but I was never convinced.
In our third year of marriage, my husband a man of God who practically saw all our issues spirituality and invited us to his church for prayer. I was baffled; he asked that i strip naked in front of him so he pours some special oil on me, which I did. Afterwards, my husband had to buy some special water of gh s800 to be used for bathing for 2 weeks.
8 years ago
My next door neighbor had started openly embarrassing me about child birth. She had 3 kids. One day on my way to work, another pastor who happened to preach on the bus I sat in gave me revelations about my life. “You’re struggling to have a child”, he said. “The Lord says I should help you”, he added. I was overjoyed and quickly took his number.
For the next 3 years, this pastor became my confidant, counselor and best friend. He told me how my husband’s family was bent on destroying me and preventing me from having a child. He was also on my payroll. I had to practically pay for every prayer session, every counseling session and sometimes his personal items. It was tough, but I was getting desperate.
4 years ago
I never thought I would get to a point where I will walk myself into real danger but I did…
To be continued…
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