I want to thank God for delivering my baby and I during her birth. I got pregnant in February 2014 and as it progressed,
every routine check I went for showed that the baby was breeched. A breech presentation is a position of a fetus in which
the feet or buttocks appear first during birth. Whenever the doctor told me the baby was in a breeched position,
I would reply and say, “My baby will turn.” Being a believer and a member of TCC, he would concur by saying, “Yes your baby will turn.”
At 36 weeks of pregnancy, I was sent for the usual scan and the result showed that my baby was still
breeched with the buttocks position. At that point I became very concerned because as pregnancy advances,
a baby’s movement becomes highly restricted and the possibility of the baby turning becomes very slim. Thought
bombs started coming because statistics have shown that only a minute percentage of babies with the buttocks
breech are delivered safely normally. My doctor told me it was a very dicey situation but we should hope for the best.
My husband and I continued to declare God’s Word over the situation howbeit more aggressively this time. We declared that
our baby will turn and assume the head first position before my Expected Date for Delivery.
When at 38 weeks the position was still the same, we decided to see Pastor Sola to agree with us in faith.
I met him and told him the situation we were faced with; he asked me what we wanted and I told him we wanted
a normal delivery with nothing missing or broken. He held my hands in agreement and prayed the typical TCC prayer – simple
but concise and powerful. After the prayer he said, “Helen go and have your baby.” He said it as though having a baby was
like eating a piece of cake but I knew exactly what that meant. My faith was boosted and I knew it was settled. After that meeting,
my husband and I stopped the “baby must turn” prayer and queued behind Pastor Sola’s declaration for a normal delivery. After all,
there’s no situation that cannot accommodate a miracle from God.
Two weeks later, I was exactly 40 weeks gone. Pastor Sola saw me and asked what the report was and when I told him it hadn’t changed,
he said we were good. In the evening of that same day, I went home, cooked and decided to exercise on the staircase. Shortly afterwards,
contraction started and within thirty minutes the contraction became stronger and quicker. As usual, I kept declaring that this delivery
would be quicker than that of my first child. By quicker, I meant at most three hours but little did I know I was in for a big surprise.
We took my bag and headed for the hospital and in about fifteen minutes we were there. The doctor examined me and I was already 6 cm dilated.
After about fifteen minutes of getting there, I had my baby. I was thoroughly thrilled by God’s goodness because fifteen minutes couldn’t be
compared to my three hours expectation. God’s Word came true; He said He would do exceedingly, abundantly, above what we can think or imagine.
The delivery happened exactly as Pastor Sola had declared; it was normal with nothing missing and nothing broken. Giving birth to a baby in that
position normally within that time was simply a miracle and I recall the doctor exclaiming, “glory, glory” as soon as I pushed my baby out. Dr.
Patrick Akoyere works with a fine combination of expertise and grace and therefore recognizes a miracle when he sees one.
After cleaning me up, the doctor went home and my husband also left to stay with our older daughter. At about 2 am that night, I began to bleed.
As the baby suckled, I bled but when she stopped suckling and the bleeding continued, we (the nurses and I) then realized we had a situation.
The nurses did everything they knew to do while they tried to reach the doctor. I bled from 2:00 am to about 5:30 am when the doctor was eventually contacted.
When he came, he tried to ascertain what could have caused the bleeding since everything was fine before he left. He then asked the nurse to bring me to the theatre
for a proper check. The nurse came, helped me up the bed and that was the last thing I remembered because I passed out from bleeding for so long. I guess the enemy
wanted to still try something after losing out with the safe “breech” delivery. Unfortunately for him, God got there first and was still there! Hallelujah!
Suddenly, my eyes opened and I saw that I was being carried back to the bed by four people – the doctor, my friend and two nurses. At that point,
I just knew I was dying and I started declaring that I would live and not die. I started shouting Deuteronomy 30:19. I declared that God was my Father
and had advised me to choose life because He knows what was good for me therefore; I said that I choose life and shall not die. I was shouting it as a
matter of urgency because it dawned on me that the Holy Spirit opened my eyes so I could be conscious and make good use of my mouth which had the key to my life.
Having lost too much blood there was no reason naturally to explain for the sudden strength since I wasn’t given any blood. It was simply supernatural. Pastor Nkechi
in her message: Unusual Strength (Part 5) said, “Words will restore every stolen strength in an exceptional degree.” That was my experience.
Today I am alive and well. A thousand tongues wouldn’t be enough to thank God but I am grateful to Him for His Word. I am also grateful to my Pastors
for teaching us God’s Word undiluted and for being real shepherds; and also to Dr. Patrick Akoyere.
Praise God!