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For 28-year-old Jummai Musa, life as a mother is a story which can be written and sold for an interesting price.
Jummai became a mother of seven in the space of five years and when recounting her experience during the five years, it is really worth the while. She opened up to Daily Trust on how she achieved the feat and her experience will lift your spirit!
Read excerpts below:
Did you plan to have so many children within the space of five years?
(Laughter) It was not that I planned to have seven children within that period or to have so many children in the first place. It so happened that I was married for three years and didn’t have a child. I didn’t even get pregnant. My husband and I are farmers and didn’t have money to do tests to confirm if there was anything wrong with either of us. All we had were our prayers, God and support of our families and friends. God answered us after three years and I had a baby girl. Two years after I had her, I was pregnant again and so excited about it. It was even more exciting to everyone who knew us when we discovered in my second trimester that they were twins. I danced, and my husband was so happy and especially happy when he was later told that one of the twins was a boy.
But beneath our joy, we were a little worried about how we would take care of them on our very low income. But God was kind and people helped and have been helping. Then three years after, I was pregnant again. I got worried because of our finances but had belief in God. When I went for scan, I was told I was expecting triplets. At this point, joy overwhelmed me as I began to wonder about God and how He does things.
READ ALSO: What Woman Did To Her Heavily Pregnant Neighbour In Lagos Will Shock You! (Photos)
Was it a difficult pregnancy?
Yes, especially towards the end. I had morning sickness but not for long. Then as it progressed and the babies grew, I became more and more exhausted and had to stop a lot of activities. I went for check up. My neighbours were very helpful and would take me or help me get things I needed. But I was tired a lot, too much that sometimes I would wonder if I had the energy to push the baby. All this while I imagined how the triplets would look. I wasn’t very keen about their gender because I already male and female, though.
On May 27, which was Children’s Day, at about 2am I went into labour. Luckily, there is a midwife not very far from my house who someone went to call and let her know I was in labour. We couldn’t go to hospital because of the pain and we really didn’t have the means to do so at that time of the day. The babies started coming out. Each one took two hours after the previous one before it came out. For six hours they were coming out. I was thoroughly exhausted and had just enough strength to push out the third before I collapsed. After she came out, the midwife said, ‘wait it seems there is still another one inside.’ At that point I passed out. I was so exhausted and didn’t know what to do with myself.
By this time it was day time. I was immediately rushed to Gwarinpa Hospital where they admitted me and delivered the last baby four hours after the third. I was afraid.
What was the feeling when you first saw all of them together?
I said to myself, ‘na me born all these pikin [sic]?’ My small body carried four human beings? I exclaimed ‘God you are great’. I couldn’t believe it, especially because I was expecting three babies.
Was it the thought of a fourth one, when the midwife told you, that made you pass out?
(Laughter) All of the above! The surprise that I am such a small-statured person and from my own understanding couldn’t carry four babies and also the fear that the fourth one might be too sickly, plus the excitement in my heart, all terrified me. In all, I truly was happy and decided to stay optimistic. Thankfully, they are all healthy, asides the third who is a little sickly.
My plan was to have three children, at the most four. I was not very particular about whether they were all boys or all girls. I was just looking forward to being a mother.
READ ALSO: PHOTOS: Mad Woman Delivers Ambode In Lagos
What is it like looking after quadruplets?
Wow, the joys are as numerous as the challenges. Challenges, in terms of attending to their immediate needs and you have come at a time when it is the toughest for me with two or more of them crying at the same time for food. Sometimes, it feels like my head would explode. But as the months go by I have learnt to deal with the situations two at a time or one at a time. You can see I am breastfeeding two at the same time and a third one is crying. In such situations, the older children in the compound are eager to help me. I don’t know what I would have done without them. My neighbour also comes immediately to my aid. I don’t even have to ask her.
The one thing I am so grateful to God for is that they sleep well at night, except one who keeps me awake sometimes when he wants to play. Then sometimes they feel irritable, especially times when I take them for vaccines. When they come home they are so irritable and don’t want anyone to touch them except me. As I have learnt, I can only do two at a time. So the ones I can breastfeed and sing to sleep I do so and then take on the rest until they too calm down. Times like this, my entire day goes to them.
Somebody else has to help me with the other children, cook the food and do other things I would have planned to do.
Read the full interview here.
Family picture: Musa Kanti, his wife Jummai and their seven children
Jummai became a mother of seven in the space of five years and when recounting her experience during the five years, it is really worth the while. She opened up to Daily Trust on how she achieved the feat and her experience will lift your spirit!
Read excerpts below:
Did you plan to have so many children within the space of five years?
(Laughter) It was not that I planned to have seven children within that period or to have so many children in the first place. It so happened that I was married for three years and didn’t have a child. I didn’t even get pregnant. My husband and I are farmers and didn’t have money to do tests to confirm if there was anything wrong with either of us. All we had were our prayers, God and support of our families and friends. God answered us after three years and I had a baby girl. Two years after I had her, I was pregnant again and so excited about it. It was even more exciting to everyone who knew us when we discovered in my second trimester that they were twins. I danced, and my husband was so happy and especially happy when he was later told that one of the twins was a boy.
But beneath our joy, we were a little worried about how we would take care of them on our very low income. But God was kind and people helped and have been helping. Then three years after, I was pregnant again. I got worried because of our finances but had belief in God. When I went for scan, I was told I was expecting triplets. At this point, joy overwhelmed me as I began to wonder about God and how He does things.
READ ALSO: What Woman Did To Her Heavily Pregnant Neighbour In Lagos Will Shock You! (Photos)
Was it a difficult pregnancy?
Yes, especially towards the end. I had morning sickness but not for long. Then as it progressed and the babies grew, I became more and more exhausted and had to stop a lot of activities. I went for check up. My neighbours were very helpful and would take me or help me get things I needed. But I was tired a lot, too much that sometimes I would wonder if I had the energy to push the baby. All this while I imagined how the triplets would look. I wasn’t very keen about their gender because I already male and female, though.
On May 27, which was Children’s Day, at about 2am I went into labour. Luckily, there is a midwife not very far from my house who someone went to call and let her know I was in labour. We couldn’t go to hospital because of the pain and we really didn’t have the means to do so at that time of the day. The babies started coming out. Each one took two hours after the previous one before it came out. For six hours they were coming out. I was thoroughly exhausted and had just enough strength to push out the third before I collapsed. After she came out, the midwife said, ‘wait it seems there is still another one inside.’ At that point I passed out. I was so exhausted and didn’t know what to do with myself.
By this time it was day time. I was immediately rushed to Gwarinpa Hospital where they admitted me and delivered the last baby four hours after the third. I was afraid.
What was the feeling when you first saw all of them together?
I said to myself, ‘na me born all these pikin [sic]?’ My small body carried four human beings? I exclaimed ‘God you are great’. I couldn’t believe it, especially because I was expecting three babies.
Was it the thought of a fourth one, when the midwife told you, that made you pass out?
(Laughter) All of the above! The surprise that I am such a small-statured person and from my own understanding couldn’t carry four babies and also the fear that the fourth one might be too sickly, plus the excitement in my heart, all terrified me. In all, I truly was happy and decided to stay optimistic. Thankfully, they are all healthy, asides the third who is a little sickly.
My plan was to have three children, at the most four. I was not very particular about whether they were all boys or all girls. I was just looking forward to being a mother.
READ ALSO: PHOTOS: Mad Woman Delivers Ambode In Lagos
What is it like looking after quadruplets?
Wow, the joys are as numerous as the challenges. Challenges, in terms of attending to their immediate needs and you have come at a time when it is the toughest for me with two or more of them crying at the same time for food. Sometimes, it feels like my head would explode. But as the months go by I have learnt to deal with the situations two at a time or one at a time. You can see I am breastfeeding two at the same time and a third one is crying. In such situations, the older children in the compound are eager to help me. I don’t know what I would have done without them. My neighbour also comes immediately to my aid. I don’t even have to ask her.
The one thing I am so grateful to God for is that they sleep well at night, except one who keeps me awake sometimes when he wants to play. Then sometimes they feel irritable, especially times when I take them for vaccines. When they come home they are so irritable and don’t want anyone to touch them except me. As I have learnt, I can only do two at a time. So the ones I can breastfeed and sing to sleep I do so and then take on the rest until they too calm down. Times like this, my entire day goes to them.
Somebody else has to help me with the other children, cook the food and do other things I would have planned to do.
Read the full interview here.
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