After 10
years of marriage without the fruit of the womb, Mrs Ekpo Edet, a civil servant
in Cross River State civil service was gifted with quintuplets and given all
that
she is passing through, she says she wants no more. Her story...
As written
by Leadership's Olanrewaju Arotimi;
Although,
she did not bargain for it, but a woman who couldn’t conceive 10 years after
marriage was shell-shocked as gets fruits of the womb five times in one fell-
quintuplets in her first and only pregnancy in a decade. So, was the case of
Mrs Ekpo Edet, a civil servant in Cross River State civil service, who recently
gave birth to five bouncing babies consisting of three males and two females at
the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Calabar.
Despite the
daunting challenge of nursing five babies in a harsh economy, the middle-aged
mother and administrative officer had since accepted her fate, describing the
babies as marvelous and previous gifts from God.
Mrs. Ekpo
disclosed that she didn’t pray to have quintuplets, but has a family tree that
has a record of a delivery of a twin babies. She said at that conception she
was only interested in having just a baby, and not babies, especially having
been unable to have one after 10 years of marriage.
However,
after the successful delivery of her babies, Ekpo noted that she, alongside her
husband, Dr. Edet Effiong Ekpo, had been full of praises to God Almighty for
blessing them with a set of quintuplets, after waiting upon God over the past
10 years, amidst persecution from different quarters that demand a child from
her.
She
reaffirmed that the babies, who are now four months old, were a reward for her
waiting upon the God over the years, adding that it pays to be steadfast when
trusting God for a child.
Mrs Ekpo
told our correspondent that her greatest challenge in bringing up the babies at
the moment was that of finance, but expressed confidence that God will always
cater for them.
In view of
the prevailing economic hardship and the enormous tasks of catering for the
needs of five babies at a time, Ekpo doesn’t wish to have another set of
quintuplets.
According to
her, “It was marvelous having those babies. Even though I didn’t pray for it,
and it just came, I give God the praise. But I wouldn’t want to have another
experience. I won’t. The stress is much with this present economic situation. I
won’t. Remember that we are all civil servants. I don’t have help from
anywhere, except God.
“Finance has
been the major challenge at the moment, but I believe that with God all things
are possible. God will always take care of them.”
Ekpo, who
expressed satisfaction over her post and ante-natal and post-natal medical
care, used the opportunity to advise pregnant women to always adhere to the
instruction and prescriptions of their doctors in order to experience a safe
delivery. She specifically commended Prof. Davies Ekanem, of the UCTH, for his
medical care before and after her delivery.
Nevertheless,
she narrated how she had a high blood pressure due to anxiety on the day of
delivery, but said God took control of the situation.
Has any
woman in her lineage had multiple births? She says, “Actually, my mom’s elder
sister had twins.” In spite of the huge financial implications of catering for
the children, all had been well with the mother and her “five bundles of joy”
health wise.
“Since after
delivery, I have not had any course to take them to the hospital, though I
treat them of malaria, every two month. In the course of all these things, I
never had high BP, except on the day of delivery, my BP rose a little out of
anxiety. I was scared as a human being. But, in the whole, we all have not had
any health issue, so far. We are hale and hearty,” she said.
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