The
doctor told the nurse to throw our baby away because he wasn’t going to make it
and to avoid extra expense. He was born at 26 weeks and 4 days weighing only
1.25kg. No child like that had survived in Enugu State University Teaching
Hospital.
"I am the Lord, the
God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?” Jer 32:27- 28(NIV)
The
journey began when after 7wks of conception that my wife started seeing blood
drips. On the 24th week of pregnancy, she started having premature
labour that she had to be rushed to the hospital in the midnight. When later she
started having a discharge she went for ultra sound which showed the baby was
just 26 weeks and 4 days. On the 17th day of July 2013, we went to Park
lane to see a doctor, she was shouting and screaming in pains and the liquor
broke and poured out. The consultant meanwhile advised us to hope on another
baby since we are fresh in marriage. My mother in law told me she had given
birth to a boy. The birth weight was 1.25kg; I was the most confused human
being.
The nurse said he was still breathing and so did
not heed the call to throw him away but rather he was taken to the Newborn Intensive
Care Unit. We were asked to buy surfactant for his lungs within 24hrs. The
whole of Enugu metropolis was combed but it was not seen. It was gotten at the
rate of N110, 000 for a single dose from a pharmacy shop
at Abuja beyond that time. He was prayed for 4 days after his birth at the
chapel of Pentecost, F.N.H.E. I came to the alter and hands were laid on me and
it was declared that he must be brought for dedication there in church, but I
was doing all I could so that no one would blame me and say I didn’t play my
role but God knew the best. "Again,
I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it
will be done for you by my Father in heaven.
For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with
them." Matt 18:19-20 (NIV)
The
baby was battling with apnoea (he stopped breathing for more than 15 times).
Then when he conquered apnoea, haemolysis and anaemia set in, that he had
multiple blood transfusions. When he conquered that, the trouble of tolerating
food set in. In all of these, he spent 10 weeks in the incubation and 1 week
outside incubator so that he will adjust with being carried about. We were
discharged after 11 weeks in the ICU. My wife was asked to carry him when he
was allowed out of the ICU but it was very difficult for her. “He is too small!” she said.
He
was born 1.25kg, then it dropped to 0.9kg then it gradually moved and he was
discharged at 1.9kg. After 1 week we went for check up and hen was 1.7kg but
after 2 weeks, he moved to 2.5kg but by 6 weeks when he was finally discharged,
he was 6kg. Now he has been dedicated in church as declared, and is a
celebrity. He is over a year now, and when he moves around pulling things down
in the house people say “let him be”. His story has already encouraged another
sister with a similar story who has equally received victory.
For nothing is
impossible with God Lk 1:37 (NIV).
Mr
& Mrs Nwachukwu work at Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu
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