Stand By Me - Season 2 - Episode 9

Episode 5 years ago

Stand By Me - Season 2 - Episode 9

My God is able, he that did it for Anna and Sarah he has done it for me too. I was so happy and grateful to God. I collected my test result and pleased with my mother in-law not to break the news to my husband yet. She smiled at me and said “it’s your duties to tell him, not mine”

She drove me back home, and left for hers, I was alone at home praying and praising God. Later in the evening my husband got back from work, he didn’t see me in the living room as usually so he came upstairs to look for me. I turn off the light making the room to be completely dark.

KOLA
Baby, are you here? (turning on the light)

RITA
I’m here baby (tears of joy filled my eyes)

KOLA
Baby what’s wrong? Have you been crying?

RITA
I went to the hospital today, and the doctor said I’m–I’m

KOLA
You are what?

I handed him the result, he was so eager to open it because he wanted to know what was making his angel to cry. Before he could finish opening the latter, I had already started smiling. He read it and scream in joy

KOLA
Baby, are you saying I’m soon gonna be a father? I nodded my head positively. He hugged me so tight, then he release me and knelt down and started praying thanking God for the gift.

He called our pastor to give him the good new, and daddy was happy for us, he prayed for us on the phone and said he was going to see us in church on sunday.

Kola asked me to get dress that he was taking me out for dinner, I accepted to go with him, it was the happiest day of our lives.

The ninth month for me to deliver my child came, and I became very scared, “what if I don’t make it” what if my baby didn’t make it or my strength isn’t enough to push my child?

All those negative thought clouded my mind I wonder where they even came from. I have a God that gives joy and added no sorrow so why should I be afraid. My pregnancy almost got to the tenth month before I fell into labor. During my my early pregnancy my doctor advise I go for scan to know the gender of my baby but I refused. My reasons were best known to me. I didn’t force God to give me this child I only begged him to, so why should I be faster than God? A child is supposed to be a surprise from God to us. I could remember back then in my formal compound, this issue destroy one marriage. A woman has three girls so she became pregnant and went for scan she was told another girl was coming, her husband was so furious that he sent her packing.