Nigerian Civil Servant Gives Birth to 5 Babies after 10 Years of Childlessness (See Photo)

A Nigerian woman who couldn’t give
birth for 10 years after marriage has
gotten a bountiful blessing as she gave
birth to five bouncing babies at once.


Mr and Mrs Edet with their little babies
After 10 years of marriage without the
fruit of the womb, Mrs Ekpo Edet, a civil
servant in Cross River State civil service
has given birth to quintuplets.


According to Leadership NG, Mrs. Edet is
now full of smiles. The three males and
two females were delivered at the
University of Calabar Teaching Hospital
(UCTH), Calabar.


Despite the daunting challenge of
nursing five babies in a harsh economy,
the middle-aged mother and
administrative officer had since accepted
her fate, describing the babies as
marvelous and previous gifts from God.


Mrs. Ekpo disclosed that she didn’t pray
to have quintuplets, but has a family tree
that has a record of a delivery of a twin
babies. She said at that conception she
was only interested in having just a
baby, and not babies, especially having
been unable to have one after 10 years
of marriage.


However, after the successful delivery of
her babies, Ekpo noted that she,
alongside her husband, Dr. Edet Effiong
Ekpo, had been full of praises to God
Almighty for blessing them with a set of
quintuplets, after waiting upon God over
the past 10 years, amidst persecution
from different quarters that demand a
child from her.


She reaffirmed that the babies, who are
now four months old, were a reward for
her waiting upon the God over the
years, adding that it pays to be steadfast
when trusting God for a child.


Mrs Ekpo told our correspondent that
her greatest challenge in bringing up the
babies at the moment was that of
finance, but expressed confidence that
God will always cater for them.


In view of the prevailing economic
hardship and the enormous tasks of
catering for the needs of five babies at a
time, Ekpo doesn’t wish to have another
set of quintuplets.


According to her, “It was marvelous
having those babies. Even though I
didn’t pray for it, and it just came, I give
God the praise. But I wouldn’t want to
have another experience. I won’t. The
stress is much with this present economic
situation. I won’t. Remember that we are
all civil servants. I don’t have help from
anywhere, except God.


“Finance has been the major challenge at
the moment, but I believe that with God
all things are possible. God will always
take care of them.”
Ekpo, who expressed satisfaction over
her post and ante-natal and post-natal
medical care, used the opportunity to
advise pregnant women to always
adhere to the instruction and
prescriptions of their doctors in order to
experience a safe delivery. She
specifically commended Prof. Davies
Ekanem, of the UCTH, for his medical
care before and after her delivery.


Nevertheless, she narrated how she had
a high blood pressure due to anxiety on
the day of delivery, but said God took
control of the situation.


Has any woman in her lineage had
multiple births? She says, “Actually, my
mom’s elder sister had twins.” In spite of
the huge financial implications of
catering for the children, all had been
well with the mother and her “five
bundles of joy” health wise.


“Since after delivery, I have not had any
course to take them to the hospital,
though I treat them of malaria, every two
month. In the course of all these things, I
never had high BP, except on the day of
delivery, my BP rose a little out of
anxiety. I was scared as a human being.
But, in the whole, we all have not had
any health issue, so far. We are hale and
hearty,” she said