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
