15/04/2025
Vulnerable Post Alert… 🚨
My pregnancy journey wasn’t a walk in the park. It wasn’t easy! While some women do have it easy, there are some of us who don’t and didn’t.
There are levels to how bad it can be, minimal, inbetween, extreme.
When I was pregnant, I questioned God I’m so many levels.
I had no words during my prayer time, I’d cry a river and all I’d utter is “help me, please help me Lord”.
Many at times, I felt like I was locked up in a cage, mentally, emotionally and physically.
I really wanted the many things I was feeling to end. Not badly but let it just end.
Sleepless nights, waist pain, back pain, pain in my joints, difficulty in breathing, bad eyesight, I vomited the entire nine months, passed out couple of times, went pale due to inability to eat, weakness, dizziness, bleeding, irritation, loss of physical identity, perpetual headaches, fatigue, shortness of breath, emotional instability, abdominal pain and ( I’d save the very major one for a post that’d come later on).
All these and more I experienced whilst pregnant.
Some women experience more, trust me.
See, as a man or even a woman…
It’s very unwise, inappropriate and insensitive to liken pregnancy to being “a normal thing”.
To being a walk in the park or saying a woman’s body was made and equipped to carry pregnancy so whatever she’s going through, her body is equipped to handle it.
So women who died due to pregnancy, you’d say same of their experience?
For every pregnant woman or woman who has bore a child, her pregnancy experience is unique and should never be treated or regarded as trivial.
The things I’ve seen and heard only breaks my heart and makes me wonder.
As a partner, family, acquaintance and stranger. Please let’s do better with our regard for pregnant women.
Support and do not tear down with your words, actions and inactions. As much as you can, don’t compare a woman’s pregnancy journey to another.
You mustn’t say something at the sight of a pregnant woman or pregnancy post online.
Even a fool is considered wise when silent, best bet is to maintain silence.
God bless and uphold every pregnant woman out there.
I celebrate your strength and I see you. ❤️
