Testimony Time

On a thanksgiving Sunday in my church, a couple gave their testimony on how they had a normal delivery (vagina birth) without any help from the doctors as they had been advised previously to keep open minds in case they might have to do a caesarian section because of the complications they were managing at that time.

I was really happy and rejoiced with them although, the man didn’t forget to chip in how they rebuked the devil to counter the doctor’s suggestion. He made it look like C.S is a form of affliction. I became worried for the other women in the congregation who will be needing C.S in the future but have been affected by his harmless remark.

In my opinion, C.S is no curse but an intervention. Many women are living and are healthy with their babies because they had this intervention done on time. So many women have died and are still dying because they think it’s a form of affliction and they begin to think less of themselves. Some women even say no to C.S for religious reasons.

Science is evolving and the cure for so many diseases have been found and researches are still on to solve more problems. Why then should we continue to think that C.S as a medical intervention is not God’s solution to stop female mortality.

My labour room experience with my first baby thought me that God uses different things to bring peace to us in our various situations. I had dilated fully and was pushing actively with crazy contractions but the baby didn’t just come through. After some hours of unproductive labour, I started getting hints that baby had started losing his breath (heart rate dropping) and getting tired so I had to be placed on oxygen.

A doctor who according to my husband was passing by, decided to check the labour room I was in and immediately without any prolonged check tried to calm me down to tell me the need to go straight to the theatre. He hadn’t finished explaining when I said yes. He located dear husband for consent and within few minutes baby was out, hail and healthy.

Long story short, I was diagonised with cephalopelvic disproportion(CPD). In simple english, baby could not come through because my pelvis was too narrow for the size of my baby. You can imagine the pain I went through for hours while the baby was struggling to pass through; and to think that so many women have died and are still dying because of cultural and religious sentiments about C.S is disheartening.

Cephalopelvic disproportion is a pregnancy complication in which there is a size mismatch between the mother’s pelvis and the baby’s head. It can make vaginal delivery dangerous or impossible. Prolonged labour from CPD often result in serious birth injuries that are often not reversible to both mother and child. It sometimes end both lives.

Our faith is important and there is no impossibility with God. We should also remember that all medical interventions we see today are also part of God’s ways of answering our prayers.

Our lives are precious, let us take good care.