I am Mrs Martha Kombe Monono, born in Yaounde some forty one years ago. I am married and a mother of three biological children and one adopted daughter.
When I married in 2005 and in 2006, I was still in University rounding up, not planning to take in but then I realised I was pregnant for the first time in my life. I had the joy of motherhood knowing there was another human in me. But it didn’t stay for too long. Just after it was confirmed the following week I experienced bleeding and then had to go through a D and C.
I was consoled when some said normally the first egg of a woman is bad.I told myself well it means I could now pull on , but I became surprised when it happened the second and the third time.
I came to a point where I was desperate. I was happy taking in. One day I was about climbing the stairs. Realised a pain in my abdomen. Going to check I saw blood.
I can’t explain the pain, fear, uncertainty I was overwhelmed with at my third miscarriage.
I was in a place of asking, ‘God where are you. Lord will I ever carry a baby, will I ever breastfeed a baby??’
As God will have it. After like six months to a year I got pregnant and I was like ‘Father You just have your way’ and that is how God changed my story, everything changed, God wiped my tears. I saw hope coming again till the pregnancy evolved till the eight month.
Then another story.Two weeks before delivery, the doctor told me my cervix couldn’t dilate and I was like God you kept this pregnancy, what is the plan?
But as God would have it I went through CS the first, second and third time. Three children, three C-sections.
Through it all I have seen God’s hand of healing, His faithfulness, deliverance.
I’ve seen His hand of deliverance. Because you know after you have had miscarriages and pain there is a pain of what next. But God has been faithful. So today I am encouraging other women to let them know that there is hope.
To let them know that the water might have thrown but the calabash is not broken.
I encourage everyone trusting God for the fruit of the womb. Don’t give up!!
You will win through Christ!
