Looking for a child has been a most harrowing
challenge for a great number of men and
women. The Bible tells the agonizing story of a
woman who continuously wailed as she sought a
child. God took pity on Hannah and gave her a
child after the intervention of Prophet Eli. She
became the mother of Samuel, a giant in the
history of Jews.
Henry the VIII of England, in his search for a
male heir, beheaded six queens, yet he died
without a son and was succeeded by Queen
Elizabeth the 1st. In the end, Henry VIII took
England out of the Roman Catholic Church and
established the Anglican Church in what became
known as the English Reformation.
Single professional women have had no bar to
their adoption of children. They may have done
so in cases where child birth was difficult; when,
however, adoption has occurred, sometimes
successful pregnancies ensued. So far, there has
been no stigma involved in adopted children; if
there is, the evidence is small, although I can
imagine needling comments of the kind of
women that Mama Gee portrays in Nollywood.
In some societies, women marry younger girls for
their husbands for all sorts of reasons. Our upper
and middle class women almost invariably have
children, who, in every other way except legally,
had been adopted. It is not always a happy
experience but then which marriage is always a
happy experience? There is the occasional
friction when the woman dies without a will
because her relatives may make claims or fight
to take all the material possessions of the dead,
thereby cutting the adopted child out of his
lawful inheritance. My mother, on the other hand,
had several adopted children, who remain my
siblings till date.
Duruyani and Hannaniya were married for 20
years and, just like any other couple, they tried
to have children. However, unlike others, it took
them several years to conceive and, despite the
challenge with conception and their expectations,
all the pregnancies unfortunately ended in
miscarriages. This was a very grieving deal for
them because the babies would grow to about 5
or 6 months in the womb and then a miscarriage
would occur, and some of these miscarriages
were for multiple babies. The enlightened couple
utilized their globe-trotting exposure to seek
medical solution overseas, all to no avail.
Miracle
Eventually, as time progressed, Durayani became
ill and was diagnosed with various kinds of
ailments. She developed a type of cough the
doctors could not understand and, on the film,
some dark spots were seen in her chest region
and lungs. Being devoted Christians, they sought
medical solution to the challenge yet committed
it to the Lord as they expected some miracle.
Eventually the Lord took this strange ailment
away from her.
One day, while they dined at a Chinese
restaurant in Abuja, Durayani began to bleed.
She knew what was happening. Her husband, a
microbiologist and specialist neurophysician,
rushed her to three different hospitals.
Unfortunately, in each hospital, the senior
doctors had all gone home. After the third stop,
he rushed her to the National Hospital where he
found out again that all the senior doctors had
also closed for the day. At this point, he chose
to go against the ethics of his profession that
advise against a man performing surgery on his
spouse. With junior doctors around with the few
junior doctors on duty, they quickly set up the
theatre and began the surgery to take out the
blood clot that was about to snuff life out of his
beloved wife. Then an experienced doctor came
around for an entirely different reason, and heard
of the situation and ran to take over the surgery.
Doctor’s report versus God’s report
On another day, she fell ill and, in the course of
seeking solution in South Africa, they were told
that the blood result was bad news: cancer.
They were shaken and took the challenge once
more to the Lord in prayers. They rejected the
doctor’s report and held unto the Lord’s report.
They sought medical solution in the U.K
afterwards and the doctors became puzzled and
asked, “Who said she had a blood disease, a rare
form of blood cancer?” To the glory of God, the
results of the latter test showed there was no
trace of the cancer. Did a miracle take place?
They rejoiced and praised the Lord. Soon after
this great news, they got a call from the South
African doctors stating that there was a mix up
with her tests. They investigated further and
confirmed that she did not have any form of
cancer in her system. Having gone through so
much and having wailed on the Lord in the
secret place of the Lord, they remained sober
and thankful, once more, for sparing her life.
Surrogacy
After a while, they tried to have children again
but to no avail; miscarriages continued.
Eventually they figured that since her womb
could not keep the pregnancies, they would
consider the option of surrogacy. Their Harley
Street doctor, one of the first doctors in the
world to successfully deliver in vitro (IVF) babies,
had been very sympathetic to their cause and,
after series of failed IVF, suggested surrogacy to
them.
They began the procedures and, as eggs could
be stored for years, they decided to store the
excess eggs while they sought for a surrogate
mother to carry their child. Unfortunately, the
surrogacy laws in Britain were so strict that it
would have been impossible to find a mother to
carry the child. The doctor, who was natively
Greek, suggested that they find a surrogate in
Greece. They embraced the idea but it was soon
forgotten because there was a serious problem
with the transportation of the eggs out of the
region.
When that failed, they tried to transport the eggs
to Nigeria but the results were the same as that
of Greece. It seemed like they would never be
able to have their own children, so they opted for
adoption. They adopted a little boy, now 6 years
old, and later a girl, now aged 4. Duruyani’s body
had gone through so much strain over these
years and age was not on her side as she was
classified as High Risk Pregnancy if she took in.
On two occasions, she had been diagnosed with
cancer, and later lymphoma; she had suffered
hemorrhage, strange cough which left dark
patches on her lungs; she had suffered
emotional, physical and psychological trauma.
She had also been on bed rest all through these
pregnancies that resulted in miscarriages.
Yet the good Lord delivered her from the cold
hands of death. Her husband, Hannaniya, a rare
Igbira man from Kogi State, remained a most
loving husband to her, an Igbomina from Kwara
State, and kept all their travails away from family
and friends. They loved and doted on their two
adopted children and once more wondered if it
was necessary to have their own biological
children.
Appointed time
The Lord understood the desires of their heart
and decided to seal their faith with a remarkable
gift to them in 2014. They got a call from their
doctor in Harley Street that the law had lifted
the storage limit of the human eggs/embryo
which negated the earlier law of five years.
Perhaps because they were silently thinking once
more of their unborn children, they became
expectant. Her eggs were still available and
decided to try once more. This time they asked
for the frozen eggs to be sent to Nigeria and this
became the appointed time for them for they
were able to transport the eggs and implant
them in Lagos.
29 weeks after the implantation of the embryo,
Hannaniya, while at work, got a call from the
surgeon that his twin baby girls had been
delivered weighing 0.9kg and 1kg respectively.
He could not believe his ears and questioned the
time and date of delivery to which the surgeon
responded that it was either they were saved at
that point in time or they were lost like all the
others gone.
Delivered alive
Hannaniya, knowing what everybody in this
country and beyond knew, which was that the
babies had a slim chance of survival in a country
like Nigeria, did not get excited. He did not worry
either but chose as usual to leave this one more
challenge to God. For the first time, their babies
had been delivered alive; so it was clear that the
Lord had given them the miracle of an identical
twin birth, but with incessant power outages and
the inadequate medical care, especially for
neonates in the incubators, what would be the
fate of these little ones?
As usual and with wisdom, he chose to keep the
news away from family and friends for he did not
want to get excited over his preterm babies.
They willingly submitted the case to the Lord and
waited for time to celebrate if it was the will of
God for them. As God gave his approval, both
babies survived and were christened Grace and
Esther on Sunday, March 22, 2015.
The other two children who had been adopted
were also christened on the same day. There
was a lovely celebration of the two babies and
their older adopted siblings afterwards at the
beautiful event organized by the family in the
Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Their
phenomenal testimony was shared by the
husband himself and all those present were
amazed. Their parents, siblings, relations, friends
and well-wishers were speechless and moved to
tears of joy for the grace of God on their beloved
children.
There are great lessons to learn from the power
of prayers and the power in sealed lips for they
did not give room to any interference or
sympathy from family and friends.
Research for the story was done by Ugonna
Ezeanya and Chinwe Ezeanya and I am privileged
to bring you the wonderful saga. SOURCE: http://www.gidimasters.com/2015/06/the-quest-for-child.html?m=1

Hmmmmm..
Pokuwa

St Paul's 1st letter to West Germans!

Too Long....

Hmmmm! !

What gonna be, will be.

summary?

The only long epistle I can read is 4rm darling husband explaining hw wonderful I hv made him feel since we said "I do"




I will contribute later wen I read other ppl comment