A blessing has
become a challenge for Dr Edet Ekpo, an obstetrics gynecologist
with the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, whose wife, on
Monday, January 9, gave birth to quintuplets after ten years of marriage
without a baby.
He says he is beginning to feel the bite of having five
children at a go. The birth of the quintuplets is believed
to be the first in the history of Cross River State and in
the UCTH.
(Ekpo father of quadupulets)
“We
were planning for one baby at a time or three at most, but five came at
the same time. Now, we have got more than what we
prayed for and I am beginning to feel the bite because if a test is to be
conducted, it has to be for five; if you have to buy anything, it is for five.
In this period of recession, it has not been easy”.
Edet,
from Akpabuyo in the southern part of Cross River State, and wife, from Obubra
in the central part of the state, said they were living peacefully as a
couple even without a child but had hope that, as Christians, a
baby would one day come along to complete their joy. “I was ordained a pastor
in my former church 15 years ago where I also served as music director
and so, with that faith, I knew that one day we would have a baby
to make our joy complete as a family”.
-Vanguard
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