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Re: My Journey To Motherhood by Sheyilola(f): 6:15pm On May 15, 2020
Congratulations dear
You are really, really strong
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by Nobody: 6:17pm On May 15, 2020
StephenJoseph:


Wow. Nice one. That is a very good research topic. I equally worked on this topic as my final year project work in the university. I still have the hard copies. It was really interesting
Can i get a copy of your research if you will?
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by Aparche(f): 6:18pm On May 15, 2020
Omojudy:

I didn't have it easy either for my decision not to pretend or to give this testimony. But after all I have seen in life, I refused to live for the audience anymore. It is what it is, sorry if my decisions offends people who don't care about me in the first place.

Wow...I thank God for your life! I really love your testimony. I don't even understand why people would want you not to be open about how you got your babies; are they trying to protect God's integrity or what? Who told them God is not glorified by your testimony? People have become so religious and deceived to the point that they have put God in a 'box' in their imagination & so they actually believe that God must do things or answer their prayer in a particular way. If not, then it cannot be of God. But that's not true. Sometimes, God answers different peoples prayer concerning the same issue in different ways. For instance, He has blessed you with two beautiful children via surrogacy, some it's via IVF, for some it's via adoption and yet others it's via natural conception. Whichever means it comes, doesn't take away the God factor because every good gift comes from God, and children are his heritage.

I pray that your testimony will encourage some TTC women out there to prayerfully try other legal means of having children instead of wasting precious time waiting for a 'miracle'.

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Re: My Journey To Motherhood by mumzara: 6:28pm On May 15, 2020
Congratulations sis
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by Psoul(m): 6:36pm On May 15, 2020
Omojudy:
I think it's time I dropped my childbearing story.

Thirteen years ago, aged 22, I married right out of university without the wisdom to realise the importance of finding my feet first. My husband was 11 years older than me. He wasn't rich but I thought we loved each other. Youth service year I conceived but lost it right out of service.

Hubby was helped to get a good job, stable government job by my family. When I lost my first pregnancy, we were staying a few months with his parents due to our financial situation, my father in law said to me after that loss while my husband travelled "did your ladies in the water say to you that the day you give birth you would die?"

With the new job right after the loss, we moved back home and continued our lives. Three more miscarriages came along with many drama ranging from deliverances to traditional midwives to in law's commanding the home.

Finally one day almost 5 years later, hubby travels and his father calls my aunty to tell her that "they don't want to marry their daughter again". I was at work when aunty broke the news to me. I travelled that night to the inlaws with my aunty and grand mother to beg, we were not given audience. They didn't even open their gate despite we could see my husband's car in the compound.

At 9pm my companions begged me to go home with them, I refused and chose to spend the night in a shed close by. The was no electricity in the neighbourhood, everywhere was dark. At midnight Power was restored, and from the shed I was hiding, I saw my father in law walking round the compound spraying incense, (he attended celestial church) I call out to him "daddy, daddy" obviously he hears me but does like I am a ghost.

At that point, I knew I was wasting my time, I started trekking. I trekked to the motor park which was very far, vigilantes stopped me numerous time and my tearful face made them not question me too much......a lot of drama in between, I traveled back and resume dwork while praying and fasting for his return. Mehn I lost weight without even trying. I met many scam pastors which are another story.........

One day, I suddenly realized I may have the password to hubby's Facebook, I tried it and it worked. What I saw pained me but it gave me strength knowing the break up wasn't because of anything he was accusing me of (like saying a pastor revealed to him that I was sent into his life by Kingdom of darkness to destroy him. To this I asked if Kingdom of darkness gave jobs, he said he has repaid me ie Kingdom of darkness back in connecting me to the job I had then which didn't last. Oh he wanted me to be paying my salary to him by the way).

So I got some courage to begin living again at this point and apply for a divorce. To this he also said "that good wives wait for their husbands no matter how long they go, but me I ran to apply because I want to remarry."

We got to court and he was accompanied by his father and them claiming that hubby didn't abscond but I did. Guess they were afraid I wanted to request compensation. Walking out of court, his father waves at me and I wonder why.
He was barely divorced then remarried and yes has kids now. Things went sour with my place of work and I relocated to a bigger city and that was my fresh start.

Met my husband two years after the divorce, I hid nothing from him especially my challenges with infertility. We got married same year. And got pregnant and miscarried. Second pregnancy for now hubby, I was put on cerclage, yet the pregnancy still ended and I almost ended with it as my body was going into shock due to its inability to dispel the dead foetus since a cerclage held the products in.

I had an history of pregnancy losses at 14 weeks. After 8 miscarriages and no living child, I visited more hospitals, met insensitive money alone conscious doctors, finally a correct diagnosis was made.

I had no demons worrying me, my womb was just too small to carry to term, it wasn't expanding with the pregnancies. An hysteroscopy was the procedure used to diagnose this.

Getting a diagnosis at last was some sort of relief, but what can we do doctor I asked? Doctor said "have you considered adoption?" I was shattered.

I went home and discussed it with my husband. We agreed to adopt and we applied two years ago. We only just got feed back few weeks ago from them self.

Then one day I was on social media and I saw someone advertise needing a surrogate and like a light bulb the idea stuck, I wrote to the woman and we started chatting. One day her Status said she needed someone to donate blood for a relative of hers and I say where to an online stranger I had never met. That was the first day I met my good friend Mrs R. I also put up an advert for a surrogate as I couldn't afford to the price agencies were charging. After two bad experiences, I finally got one good person that we could afford. And God just sent money mysteriously.

Then when God wants to turn your story around, you know it's just your time. I paid for one cycle at the hospital we used, already looking for money in case the first cycle did not work, guess what?

IT WORKED! MY TWIN DAUGHTERS ARE 3 MONTHS OLD NOW.

This is not your everyday testimony, I no get time to dey give testimony like some people wey go go church dey say "after waiting for 20 years, God blessed us with triplets, tell the journey when telling your testimony sisters, don't let the holy sister at the back waiting for a similar miracle be thinking God doesn't answer her prayers. Be real, stop pretending.

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Please someone take me to front page for the first time in my life na. ����

My sister, you are extraordinarily strong and positive in nature. You don't easily give up even when it seems the best option is to give up. You are a great fighter. May God bless you.

The man that stood by ur side is a strong man. He's God's send.

For that man that abandoned u when you needed him most... Well, I don't know what to say.
The worst thing that can happen to a woman is getting married to a man that does not have his own will. A man that all his directives come from his parents and siblings without stopping to check how the directives will affect his own family.

Please permit me to share ur story.

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Re: My Journey To Motherhood by Datagirl: 6:36pm On May 15, 2020
Wow,congratulations. I admire your honesty.

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Re: My Journey To Motherhood by Ade3131: 6:46pm On May 15, 2020
One thing I cherish mostly about you is that you came out clean to your husband. Most ladies will lie their way into marriage hoping nature will cover their tracks. A big congratulations to you and your family. I'm happy you met your true husband. Congratulations once again
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by Mcslize: 7:00pm On May 15, 2020
Vyolet:
Hmmm,
I congratulate you madam, you are really strong.
I hope this story will encourage other women in this situation to explore this means too, I admire your husband's open-mindedness, he is also an MVP.
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by Mcslize: 7:04pm On May 15, 2020
Confusedgirlie:
Thanks first to science and then to the surrogate mother.

Thanks to the surrogate mother no doubt, but she was paid . She only carried the babies for 9 months. The eggs were op's eggs fertilized by op husband's sperm. So the only role the surrogate mother played was helping them to carry the babies for 9 months as op womb couldn't expand enough to carry the babies.

Genetically, the babies will look like op and her husband, DNA wise.

I believe surrogate mother was paid handsomely. So no special thanks to that. It is trade by barter.

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Re: My Journey To Motherhood by Omojudy: 7:15pm On May 15, 2020
Psoul:


My sister, you are extraordinarily strong and positive in nature. You don't easily give up even when it seems the best option is to give up. You are a great fighter. May God bless you.

The man that stood by ur side is a strong man. He's God's send.

For that man that abandoned u when you needed him most... Well, I don't know what to say.
The worst thing that can happen to a woman is getting married to a man that does not have his own will. A man that all his directives come from his parents and siblings without stopping to check how the directives will affect his own family.

Please permit me to share ur story.
Thanks you. Feel free to share.
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by Mcslize: 7:20pm On May 15, 2020
Trayceey:
okay. But I don't understand that surrogate part. Did u give birth to the children yourself? Or was it with the help of a surrogate mother? Please clarify me

Let me explain it to you so you understand it.

Op's eggs were harvested and placed in an optimum incubator medium to prepare them for fertility.

After that, the husband's sperm were taken and placed along side op's eggs so that the eggs can get fertilized by the husband's sperm. Several eggs were actually fertilized.

After fertility, the Doctor used a special syringe to introduce the fertilized eggs into the surrogate mother (The other woman they bargained with). The eggs finally got implanted into the other woman's womb.

The only job the woman played was to help them carried the babies till 9 months and born them.

Genetically, the babies are cardboard copy of op and her husband not the other woman cuz op donated her own eggs and and the eggs were fertilized by op's husband sperm.

I hope you now understand it with this brief explanation.

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Re: My Journey To Motherhood by dosht(f): 7:40pm On May 15, 2020
I've been following your story from instagram since last year. Congratulations to you once again!

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Re: My Journey To Motherhood by litaninja(m): 7:42pm On May 15, 2020
lmao. god sent money mysteriously. na wa
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by HiDee2(m): 7:49pm On May 15, 2020
This is good news.

Congratulations.
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by seunfly: 7:52pm On May 15, 2020
eyinjuege:


Several generations before us have always had twins. It's not only fertility drugs that give people twins. As you get older as a woman, your chances of having twins increases.
This is science and proven.
So while fertility drugs are great for those who need them, people do still get pregnant with twins naturally despite a previous delay.

https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/chances-of-having-twins

https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20060222/older-women-more-likely-to-have-twins

My maternal grand pa was a twin, i v twin anties, my wife is a twin and i have twin boys in my house. i know about twins very well, what I'm talking about is the hypocrisy the OP highlited that is going on about people looking for fruit of the womb and church testimonies. You and i knows that you always have options of twins, triplet etc and gender selection when people do IVF and other medical conception assistance.

Don't u noticed a trend that almost everybody who as been waiting for fruit of the womb for years always come up with twins or triplet but in reality the odds of getting twin or triplet is very low even if u gives birth at 80 years except their is history in your family line like mine. However 90% of people who are looking for babies ends up given birth to twins.

I'm not against the twins niether am i against the testimonies, but people should always state the fact and give God his own credit so that others can learn and get their help at appropriate time.

One of my oga in the office has been looking for babies for more that 15 years, people told her about different medical options but she rejected it holding on to faith and other people's testimonies without knowing other people she was looking at took the other medical options she rejected. She just gave birth to twins recently after she finally agreed to IVF. I know she would have done it long time ago if she had known that majority of the testimonies passed through the same journey but it took her more than 15 years to relised and solve what could have been solved 2 years after marriage.

Bible says give cesar unto cesar and give God unto God, infact it is God's doing for IVF to be successful, because i have a friend who had IVF and she still had complication.

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Re: My Journey To Motherhood by Omojudy: 7:52pm On May 15, 2020
litaninja:
lmao. god sent money mysteriously. na wa
I no try the one I write? You still want details of how the money was raised? Point is God made our efforts to raise them successful.
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by Donpruddy(f): 7:53pm On May 15, 2020
Her's was probably a unicornuate uterus. We have a whole lot of congenital abnormalities that affect pregnancy and childbirth. Below are some.

Re: My Journey To Motherhood by enemyofprogress: 7:57pm On May 15, 2020
Ebenezer2021:

BABANGBALI your wife don come back oh after how many years cheesy
Bad market for Dominique tongue
CC enemyofprogress
dominique is my one and only. No rival and will never be any rival. Vickyrotex just wan chop and clean mouth but na dominique get am and nobody can come in between us, not even mynd44, Ishilove, seunmohmoh, funkybabee nor ajepako
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by isokey: 8:04pm On May 15, 2020
Omojudy:

Please delete your comment. My children will live long healthy and successful lives, I will have sons after these daughters and together we shall create a dynasty. Burying their dad and I at a ripe old age after we have seen their grand children the way my grandmothers were able to see my children.
Amen
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by eyinjuege: 8:09pm On May 15, 2020
seunfly:


However 90% of people who are looking for babies ends up given birth to twins.

I'm not against the twins niether am i against the testimonies, but people should always state the fact and give God his own credit so that others can learn and get their help at appropriate time.

One of my oga in the office has been looking for babies for more that 15 years, people told her about different medical options but she rejected it holding on to faith and other people's testimonies without knowing other people she was looking at took the other medical options she rejected. She just gave birth to twins recently after she finally agreed to IVF. I know she would have done it long time ago if she had known that majority of the testimonies passed through the same journey but it took her more than 15 years to relised and solve what could have been solved 2 years after marriage.

Bible says give cesar unto cesar and give God unto God, infact it is God's doing for IVF to be successful, because i have a friend who had IVF and she still had complication.

Nobody owes anyone else information about their fertility or medical journey.
It's a choice to share or not to share.
Whether it helps someone out there or not, isn't their concern.
There's enough information out there for anyone, so it's not until someone comes out like omo.judy has done before others can be helped.
Omo.judy doesn't owe any stranger her stories, and she's kind to share it with us all. But it doesn't make the path she has chosen better than those who decide not to share their own struggles and how they overcame.
People don't have to share their stories of how they survived cancer or corona or whatever unless they want to. It doesnt mean they're wicked, evil or deceitful.
The fact that she was able to get a surrogate and it worked out well is a testimony to some people on it's own.
The fact that someone comes out to say praise God, I've been trying for a baby for years and now I hold my child in my hands (whether through IVF or surrogate) isnt anyone's business even though we are naturally nosy.
Just be thankful with the new parents and celebrate the bundle of joy. You may wonder how they got their baby( if natural or IVF ) but provided they didnt break any law, its really not anyone's 'consign'.
Some have had multiple IVFs before one finally worked out, and they see that as a testimony on it's own.

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Re: My Journey To Motherhood by VickyRotex(f): 8:48pm On May 15, 2020
enemyofprogress:
dominique is my one and only. No rival and will never be any rival. Vickyrotex just wan chop and clean mouth but na dominique get am and nobody can come in between us, not even mynd44, Ishilove, seunmohmoh, funkybabee nor ajepako

Anyone that sees this will think you have something reasonable to say. angry angry

Ajepako, kiss kiss how how you dey? I dey shock to see sey after almost 2yrs wey I no come NL, this yeyenatu still never change. embarassed
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by kunletexs: 8:53pm On May 15, 2020
SweetCunt97:
OH well, atleast you gave a direct insult which was lacking in mine grin. Hope with all these talk you atleast sent some token to d account

Lacking my foot! When you referred to me as asslicking, was that a commendation in your stupid vocabulary. Go and learn compassion. You are the type of ladies that would tell their house help not to sit on the sofa but on the floor.

As for giving, I have.
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by kunletexs: 8:59pm On May 15, 2020
Psoul:


My sister, you are extraordinarily strong and positive in nature. You don't easily give up even when it seems the best option is to give up. You are a great fighter. May God bless you.

The man that stood by ur side is a strong man. He's God's send.

For that man that abandoned u when you needed him most... Well, I don't know what to say.
The worst thing that can happen to a woman is getting married to a man that does not have his own will. A man that all his directives come from his parents and siblings without stopping to check how the directives will affect his own family.

Please permit me to share ur story.

Sir. I am grateful to you for your comment. Coming from a man like me tells me there are still men that are not bias but call a spade a spade. Thanks for supporting her with your words.
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by Legendguru: 8:59pm On May 15, 2020
Good for tou
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by SweetCunt97(f): 9:07pm On May 15, 2020
kunletexs:


Lacking my foot! When you referred to me as asslicking, was that a commendation in your stupid vocabulary. Go and learn compassion. You are the type of ladies that would tell their house help not to sit on the sofa but on the floor.

As for giving, I have.
Guy calm down naaa, haba. You ranting like I removed food from ur mouth. Wtf is wrong with you? We all know how people concoct stories to emotionally guilt people into giving on this platform.


Tears run down my eyes reading emotional novel and movies and u fink I'm capable of such wickedness to another being? Lol. Don't judge based on comments here OK.
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by kunletexs: 9:10pm On May 15, 2020
SweetCunt97:
Guy calm down naaa, haba. You ranting like I removed food from ur mouth. Wtf is wrong with you? We all know how people concoct stories to emotionally guilt people into giving on this platform.


Tears run down my eyes reading emotional novel and movies and u fink I'm capable of such wickedness to another being? Lol. Don't judge based on comments here OK.

Step aside biko. By your words, we know who you are. You have the hint of hatred and for your sorry ass, it not called ranting but called saying the truth (your word, REMEMBER!!)
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by SweetCunt97(f): 9:13pm On May 15, 2020
kunletexs:


Step aside biko. By your words, we know who you are. You have the hint of hatred and for your sorry ass, it not called ranting but called saying the truth (your word, REMEMBER!!)
Well, you can kiss my Ass. As per defender of d universe wey u be. Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by Psoul(m): 9:16pm On May 15, 2020
kunletexs:


Sir. I am grateful to you for your comment. Coming from a man like me tells me there are still men that are not bias but call a spade a spade. Thanks for supporting her with your words.

Thank you my brother. We should always be fair at all times.

That woman is so wonderful. Her story challenged me. Read the story and you'll see the sincerity in her story.

May God grant her a peaceful home.
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by kunletexs: 9:16pm On May 15, 2020
SweetCunt97:
Well, you can kiss my Ass. As per defender of d universe wey u be. Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew

That smelly ass? What the Bleep?
If that the last ass in the world, I rather say like Esther in the bible 'if I perish, I perish'

Park well and go and know how to make your comments seasoned with salt. Kai, this one wan marry o. Husband no know say he don enter one chance
Re: My Journey To Motherhood by Psoul(m): 9:19pm On May 15, 2020
Omojudy:

Thanks you. Feel free to share

Thanks my sister. May the peace of God fill your heart and your home.

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Re: My Journey To Motherhood by kunletexs: 9:20pm On May 15, 2020
Psoul:


Thank you my brother. We should always be fair at all times.

That woman is so wonderful. Her story challenged me. Read the story and you'll see the sincerity in her story.

May God grant her a peaceful home.

Seriously I did and it from her I know that surrogate are now in Nigeria which to me is good. Though, to me I don't like surrogacy as it is sinful. But am happy for her. Seriously, she is strong and the husband that stood her needs to be commended too.

Thanks for the comment. It made my day.

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Re: My Journey To Motherhood by SweetCunt97(f): 9:22pm On May 15, 2020
kunletexs:


That smelly ass? What the Bleep?
If that the last ass in the world, I rather say like Esther in the bible 'if I perish, I perish'

Park well and go and know how to make your comments seasoned with salt. Kai, this one wan marry o. Husband no know say he don enter one chance
It's obvious you really enjoying seeing my mentions bro. What even gave you the impression that it's a lady behind this moniker? I could b a dude with hairy dangling balls like you.. So bera chill

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