09/09/2025
After my CS and 24 hours rest. I managed to go downstairs with the help of my mum to see my quadruplets in the NICU. It was not an easy journey, the pain was excruciating, swollen feet and HBP.
The pediatric nurse in charge asked what I came for, I told her I came to see my quadruplets. She looked at me with disbelief. I was not surprised as that was the reaction I had been getting from almost everyone. A slim young lady in her 20s does not really fit the profile of Quadmom. That sha was not my problem.
When the nurse pointed them out to me and after seeing them. I exclaimed "Nawa o! Even if na shopping mall wey person dey buy children." Then I turned to the nurse and asked " Will I go home with four of them?" She burst into laughter.
I was serious
A part of me could not still come to the reality that they were all mine. Maybe it was the easy conception, easy pregnancy or easy delivery. I don't know! It just felt unreal.
On our way out of the hospital after their discharge. I kept looking back, expecting one of the nurses to come and say something like "sorry, these two are yours, the other two belong to Ms sososo". No one did.
When we got home and I laid them on the bed was when it strucked me that they were all mine and have come to stay with me.
You will be wondering if I didn't do scan or I wasn't told the right number of babies. No, that wasn't the case.
I knew I would be having Quadruplets when I was only 12 weeks pregnant. I knew their sexes and all before they were born. They didn't surprise me. It just felt like a dream.
But it wasn't.