The baby girl said to be born with a rosary around her neck
in Bida, Niger State, on Saturday would not have been born at all as the
mother had made several attempts to abort the pregnancy.
28-year-old
mother Khadijat Isa said she had tried to abort the pregnancy because
she had been having a frosty relationship with her husband for sometime,
such that they were even no longer living together. She said she did
not take the herbs that would abort the pregnancy because of wickedness
but due to her poor financial condition, explaining that as a fashion
designer, she was not making enough to cater for her three children as
she already has two from the same husband.
“I took medicine and
injection in the first month of the pregnancy because I didn’t want the
pregnancy but
the pregnancy refused to be terminated,” she said. She
added that after several attempts to get rid of the pregnancy did not
succeed, she resigned to fate and prepared to deliver it. Khadijat said
throughout the period of the pregnancy, she did not even once visited
hospital for ante-natal care.
She said even when labour finally
began, she did not make attempt to go to hospital, instead some elderly
women from her compound took her to the house of the retired nurse to
deliver. She said: “I did not go for any ante-natal even when labour
started. I was only taken to the nurse’s house by the people from my
compound after noticing that I was going though pains.
“I don’t
have money with me; there was no way that I could go to hospital. You
know whenever you go to any hospital, it is the issue of money which I
don’t have,” she added. Khadijat also said that the birth of the baby
last Saturday was quite different her experience in the delivery of her
two other children each of which saw her losing blood from the very
beginning to the end of the labour.
“The case of the baby I
delivered three days ago is quite different as it was free of blood,”
she said. She said another miracle associated with her recent delivery
is not only that it was bloodless but that the entire process did not
last up to 30 minutes which contrasted to what she went through in her
previous deliveries where she had to go through a period of pain that
lasted for hours. Khadijat said for the eight years she was married to
her husband they had been living peacefully until recently, before the
pregnancy.
She said also surprisingly, since the delivery her
husband comes regularly to see the new baby and even attend to some of
their needs. “The birth of the miracle girl will be source of
reconciliation between us,” she enthused. Aha! You can see him, he just
came in. He has been coming regularly to see us. That is why I said the
baby will be a source of reconciliation.”
On how the baby was
delivered, said she could not explained much because she was only told
by the nurse that handled the delivery that the baby came out with a
rosary, adding that on hearing that the baby was delivered with the
prayer beads, she was overwhelmed with happiness, telling herself that
the child must have come with full blessing directly from the Almighty.
You
can how people are trooping into this house, so it has been since
yesterday when the child was delivered. You can see we went to bed as
late 1am last now because people were just coming and out,” she said.
The father of the new born baby, Bissalla Zubairu said there was no
problem between him and his wife, saying they just had a little
misunderstanding which they were about settling when she delivered.
Zubairu
said he was shocked when he was told that his wife had given birth to a
baby girl with a rosary on her neck, adding that up to the time he was
talking with this reporter, he had not recovered from the shock. He said
after the delivery they only took the baby to the Estu Nupe’s palace
where the baby received royal blessing by his Royal Highness Yahaya
Abubakar.
Shasha Abubakar, the retired nurse that handled the
delivery of the miracle baby said that: “Seven women came into my house
around midnight one among them was pregnant, and was complaining of
abdominal an waist pain. He added that on examining her, he discovered
that it was a sign of labour.
“In less than 30 minutes the labour
began in earnest, and it was when we were about to deliver the baby that
a rosary first came out and dropped on the floor. “I took the chasbaha,
left the foetus behind and showed the people that she came with this.
They then started kalmatul Shahada, ‘Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar’.
“The
baby came out clean and no blood. I asked her people to bring clothes
for the child and before they would do that the Chasbaha which was black
at first, turned to white”. Abubakar said the delivery of the child was
normal without any hinderance and that it was one of the faster
deliveries he has conducted in his 36 years of service.
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