Earlier today, a seventeen-year-old lady was brought into the hospital somewhere in Lagos.
Her father was a pastor with Four Square church.
The mother was a teacher at one of the public secondary schools.
The lady was complaining of abdominal pain and severe back pain.
She was also bleeding heavily.
She was referred to the government hospital by a clinic.
In the documents she brought in, one of the tests showed that she was pregnant.
When the attending physician physically examined her, her tummy was devoid of any form of mass or tissue that could indicate that she was pregnant.
She was wearing joggers covered in blood.
The attending physician began to ask her questions.
Are you pregnant?
She said, “No”
When last did you have sex?
She said last December.
Do you have any injury on your leg? Why is your right leg swollen? She said she didn’t know.
Are you still in pain? She said yes, but the pain was abating gradually, and she was exhausted and needed to sleep.
The doctor told the nurses to cut off her joggers so he could examine her swollen leg properly.
Nurses cut the joggers up, and there, alive and well, was a baby girl, wrapped in the placenta!
This seventeen-year-old lady had hidden her pregnancy from her parents for ten months.
Started screaming in pain when she went into labour
Delivered the baby and placenta in the car on the way to the hospital and kept denying the fact that she was pregnant to everybody.
She had hoped the baby would be dead, but the baby wasn’t
The baby also didn’t cry.
She was brought out and taken to the nursery as a healthy child.
The lady’s parents were shocked that their daughter was able to hide her pregnancy from them for almost a year.
The father said he only noticed that she got a big fatter and her legs got bigger.
The mother said she had no clue because the daughter never showed any signs of pregnancy, like vomiting, sleeping, or being tired.
Grandma and Grandpa were congratulated by the hospital staff and encouraged to take good care of their granddaughter.