Nigerian Woman Celebrates 3 Year-Old Son Born Premature

A Nigerian woman, Ndubueze Melody, celebrates her son at three, recalling how he was born prematurely after six months.

Melody took to her social media account to share photos of his amazing transformation despite being born prematurely.

The happy mom shared the journey from birth, his time in the incubator, and his growing up.

she said, HBD SON. We named u Amazing Nikechukwu Evra bcos of the mystery surrounded with ur birth. So u hurriedly came out from d womb a day to your 7th month….yes u heard me right(approximately last day of ur 6thmonth) bcos u wouldn’t wait to make my whole word to be summed up to 3 letter words-mum”.

Oxygen and every other equipment were set to aid ur survival as u were so tender and immature to survive and u were quickly transferred to the ‘baby unit” it became a big shock. The unit seems like a space-age control room – very hot, with lots of flashing lights, beeping monitors and other mystifying pieces of equipment. Among all these are the incubators.

My tiny baby was at the centre of a tangle of tubes, surrounded by equipment inside the incubator(i and ur daddy where separated 4rm u and can only see u through the glass of the room window.. (this was to avoid him contracting infection 4rm outside the world) oh how sad it feels only to be apart 4rm ur long-awaited miracle.

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My tears, my sadness, my heart jumping out of my chest for months it was so distressful but God, hubby, my pastor and members, my parents, siblings, in-laws, and very few bosom friends where they although and made me have hope again.

my Son inside the incubator was looking quite different from what I had imagined. (Newborn babies never look like the bouncing bundles that you see in the nappy adverts, but a baby born prematurely will be at an earlier stage of development, and so may look quite different to what you might expect) he had very red skin, his eyes haven’t sprouted out yet, very trace noise and undeveloped mouth, so he fed(from extracted breast milk 4rm my breast through a tube fixed 4rm his mouth down to his stomach for 3months consecutively, wit 2 times blood transfusions and lots of injections through the canular mounted on his forehead for months and God saw us through and we came out miraculously.

Today is my Son’s 3 yrs and I and ur daddy, aunties and uncles are giving all we have to u Son…and pray u will live a fulfilled life of sweetness. Ur word of prays will impact in his life positively. Hbd our miraculous son..”