23/03/2026
“I've always disliked it when women give birth to children back to back. To me, nothing can be more "illiterateish" than that.
I mean, how can you be educated and enlightened yet be pregnant every year? You wan kpai yourself? You no wan rest?
I have an aunty who gave birth to four boys in five years, and they are all singletons, no twins. I would always look at her and say it can never happen to me.
Shey family planning no dey again ni or shey raincoat don finish for Pharmacy? Even if na ora owo otori (nylon bag) the man no fit tie before doing the do? I would even add "is it by force to knack?
I didn't know our Father in heaven was looking at me and laughing.
When my daughter clocked one, weaned her, took her to creche and went in search of a job. I worked on my body, changed my wardrobe and decided it's time to get my life back and focus on my career. My husband and l agreed on no more babies till the next five years.
I even picked up a form for my Masters degree programme.
Everything n lo loni melomelo (things were going well) until the day I went to pay acceptance fee.
It's an hour's drive from home and I didn't feel good to and fro.
It got to a point that I had to stop the driver so l could spit and get fresh air.
I shifted it on anxi£ty level and the passengers' sitting arrangement till three months later when my navel started protuding
Me: Ade, dodo mi man yo ke? Se eyan tun man yo dodo lagba ni? (Ade, my navel is increasing oh, do people's navel grow in adulthood? )
Ade: Ye je ajeju, ajeju lo man fa (stop over feeding, na over feeding dey cause am)
Ladies and gentlemen, till today, I can't explain how the second belle take enter my stomach.
Maybe I was sleeping and mistakenly landed on my husband's domudomu or maybe he fell and mistakenly slipped inside me, l don't even know but it was that time that I fully understood the meaning of "fall pregnant" We did everything we should do yet Angel Gladsome found his way into my uterus
I cri£d and crode