A business woman and first-time mother, Mrs Precious Ifeanyi, has welcomed a set of sextuplets at the National Hospital, Abuja.
The babies came on Monday after 13 years of marriage to a pastor with Living Faith Church (Winners’ Chapel International).
Mrs Ifeanyi, a native of Ebonyi in Ohaozara local government area told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Abuja that she had the babies, four girls and two boys, after undergoing In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF).
The woman who was delivered of the babies at 30 weeks through caesarean section, said she was actually expecting quintuplets, only to find out during delivery that there were six babies.
Recounting her experience, she said that she got married on April 3, 2010 like every other person and expected to start having babies immediately.
“However, since then it has not been easy. We expected children but they were not forthcoming; we went to many places and spent money but no results. So, we just accepted to wait for God’s time.
“God in His infinite mercy visited us, and here we are today, God has changed the story,” she said.
The happy mother told NAN that within the 13 years she spent expecting a child, she and her husband, a pastor with Living Faith Church, Chikara in Kogi State, spent a lot of money that yielded no result.
She said, “When you spend money on something and it is not forthcoming, it is very frustrating. My husband and I spent money on medications and kept asking people for suggestions, and went to many places without success.
“It was as if it would never happen, but God turned it around.”
She said this was the first time she tried IVF and that she started the procedure at Fertile Ground Hospital, Jos, Plateau State and continued at the National Hospital, Abuja, when she was four months into the pregnancy, and was there till delivery.
Speaking about the pregnancy, she said it was not easy, as it took a huge toll on her.
She said, “I have been hearing about pregnancies before; I had two miscarriages, but this one, many things started happening from the second week. I knew this one was unique, so I was just enduring. The first three months was not fun, I had relief in the fourth month and after that, it was tedious and not easy at all.
“People that visited me about a month ago saw what I was going through. At one point I was impatient to deliver so that I could rest. The last two weeks before delivery was the climax of it all, I could not sleep, sitting down, standing, lying down were all not easy.
“However, I was encouraged by Dr Bello. Last week he encouraged me to go another one week before delivering the babies and I am glad I did because we did not even know that there was an extra baby,” she said.
