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Pregnancy Induced Hypertension

MY SUPERNATURAL MIRACLE MY 2nd SON’S BIRTH & AUTISM HEALING JOURNEY (3)

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We are half way through the first half of this series, my journey with Eclampsia {a near-death experience}, my survival, recovery & how I think it affected my child’s neurological development and our journey so far… READ PAST TWO BLOGS HERE.

This outline is a guide to help you understand how to navigate the stories. Today, we chat about the healing ❤️‍🩹…

  • THE PREGNANCY 🤰 ✔️
  • HIS BIRTH ✔️
  • MY HEALING
  • DENIAL
  • HIS HEALING
  • THE JOURNEY TODAY (LESSONS)

MY HEALING FROM ECLAMPSIA

If you’re just reading this blog series for the first time, I’ll simplify what Eclampsia

is —-> See it as Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension (PIH). If you clicked the last blog here, you’d have gotten a background to this story.

HERE IS HOW I HEALED

After being discharged from the hospital, I couldn’t recognize myself anymore, I became very dark, big and in severe pain especially in the spinal area. It was really scary, because I knew I brought this upon myself with unhealthy choices and knew also that I could begin to do better

I began taking walks in the neighbourhood, the back pain was REEEEAAAAALLLL!!!! But I knew I had to do something. I remember starting with 10 minutes, then increased to 15 and then 20 to 30 to 40 minutes to 1hour. With every walk, I kept building strength!

Next up was joining an accountability group on WhatsApp and registering at the gym. It was very hard at first. I remembered trying to do a routine and couldn’t lift my lap and I cried while sharing my daily report. But then I kept pushing still.

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THEN CAME EATING…

After some months, I realized it wasn’t giving me the results I wanted. I was working out well, but plateaued (the scale wasn’t moving), I got one horrible looking meal plan from my then trainer (so lackadaisical), worst 10k spent.

Then I began researching by myself, foods I could take and pacing myself- eating what I could, retraining my taste buds and all. The shift started when I was researching healthier alternative. Unlearning and relearning. The process was tiring, but I kept documenting in my WhatsApp group. Balancing food with workouts.

THEN CAME MORE STRENGTH

I realized that the more I weaned myself off the thick chocolatey beverages and tin of milk with just green tea 🍵 I started feeling lighter & could lift more weight in the gym. I would train myself, switch things up with the workouts.

Some days home workouts, other days, gym weightlifting and aerobics/dance class and boom it looked like it took a couple of months, the journey began from 2015 to 2017. It took almost 2years of consistency to achieve this feat.

This is the leanest and most toned I’ve ever been. Understanding the season of life you’re in also matters a lot. I had amazing support/help from my mum and husband with a maid too, so I could focus on my health.

So I’d say maximize the help you have in that season of your life

Then enjoy each moment as it comes. Live life right now! Stop worrying about what will happen next minute. These are what we called Mindful Exercising, which I still practise until now.

Above all, Listening to your body is the best thing you can do for yourself…

I hope you’ve learnt a thing or two?

Drop a comment and tap the heart, encourage a mama by telling her this story.

For some strange reason, some people feel like it’s a stigma, living with hypertension and they wonder what could be stressing you!

Not all hypertensive cases are stress-induced, there are different causes of this type of condition ranging from genetics and also unhealthy habit, either way, switching up your lifestyle will make a big change for you as long as you pace yourself.

I would drop my anointed pen here, hoping you picked up lessons from my near-tragic experience…

Cheers to Mindful Eating; &

Cheers to Mindful Living

Your Cheerleader,

Idala Ogufere

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MY SUPERNATURAL MIRACLE MY 2nd SON’S BIRTH & AUTISM HEALING JOURNEY (2)

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Hello Fam!!!

Another Monday, another gist, if you missed Part1, here it is… I talked about how Nutrition in pregnancy could affect fetal development MY OPINION as research is still inconclusive in this area.

  • THE PREGNANCY 🤰 ✔️
  • HIS BIRTH
  • MY HEALING
  • DENIAL
  • HIS HEALING
  • THE JOURNEY TODAY (LESSONS)

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Today, I’ll share how the pregnancy and birth progressed. On the 27th of February, by 6am, I went to the bathroom thinking it was regular pee, then boom the sharp pain started and I knew it was time. Knowing this was a work week and we’d be in traffic with workers taking off early that morning, we joined it from Ajah to Gbagada (google the distance😁)

I couldn’t wait to get to the hospital, it seemed like forever, we spent 3hours getting to the hospital, Lagos traffic is not a respecter of persons ooo

Finally got wheeled into the delivery room and pushed my big man by 11am, it indeed was what God told be it would be-Swiftly Sweet & Successful.

Got discharged and went home.

Two weeks later, I found myself back in the hospital. Events leading to that time found me with swollen feet that (NEVER) happened during pregnancy and terrible headaches that I thought was as a result of stress. Drove myself in and checked my vitals-My Bp read 180/100. I was kept immediately on the bed with ice packs, yet I was super restless, I just couldn’t sit still, but I knew I needed to.

When I was monitored again to see if it had gone down, boom! It jumped to 200/110🤯

At this point, I was whisked into the ambulance and again faced traffic going to the ICU centre of this clinic-Sounds familiar right? (AJAH to Gbagada at workers’ close time rush hour-wheeew!!!)

While in the ambulance, now wearing the patient’s overall, I was sooooo restless. I just wanted my head removed, washed and the headache 🤕 rinsed away. Thankfull, the ambulance nurse kept speaking & prophesying to me “You shall not die, you’ll live to take care of your children’s children- I think that was a lifeline right there, ‘cos I really was losing it.

Upon arrival, the team whisked me to the ICU and administered an injection to crash the Bp and kept checking, but then I CONVULSED… I could feel the fear in the room, but deep down, I knew I’d be okay! After that episode, a nurse on duty saw me in my room and said you’re a miracle on 2feet, many women don’t come out of that experience WHOLE AGAIN!

That made me go on a quest to find out what exactly happened to me. Research led me to the world of ECLAMPSIA & my fight against PREGNANCY-INDUCED HYPERTENSION- it is a killer my brethren!!!!!!

Don’t even play with it, it’s a fire that has consumed 10 in 100 women in Africa…

I’m alive by Mercy & I don’t take it for granted, hence my “noise” about this condition.

I have resources on our company’s YouTube Channel to help you start where you are and use what you have.

I leave you with a scripture that says

“To whom who knows what to do and doesn’t do it, to him, it’s SIN!”

It isn’t coincidence that you are reading this, what are you going to do with this information? i know you won’t ignore it and play with your life, if you’re hypertensive or know woman who’s having similar issue.

Please keep sharing, so it can get to that woman who needs this help and has accepted her fate that she’d live with hypertension that was induced by pregnancy! I AM HERE TELLING YOU I AM LIVING PROOF WHAT GOD CAN DO TO SOMEONE WHO YIELDS TO HEALTHY LIVING.

Feel free to book a free 15 mins session with me HERE this offer lasts till the end of 2021. Except you want to sponsor more women to receive help with professional advice.

I’ll share next week how I healed, until then feel free to check HERE what we have for you to begin the journey.

Cheers to living Mindfully,

Idala Ogufere

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MY SUPERNATURAL MIRACLE MY 2nd SON’S BIRTH & AUTISM HEALING JOURNEY (1)

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Helloooo Fam!!! I’m so excited it’s Monday and I get to share with you as usual about Motherhood and Mindful Parenting. Today’s topic like you see is going to be a series and I’ll be digging deep into the subsections I’ve highlighted below, because it’s long and I need you to understand what God is teaching me through this journey.

The image below was taken in 2020, probably August. And this gist started when I share the video below 👇🏼 on my WhatsApp status, just in awe of how far God has brought us on this journey.

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