A Kenyan couple who endured taunts of being “barren and impotent” for 14 solid years of married life, have been blessed with quadruplets at a go – two boys and two girls.
Mrs Stella Kimathi’s whose husband is a policeman who survived five bullets from armed robbers who left him for dead, was delivered of her “miracle babies” through Caesarean section last Thursday at the Meru public hospital.
“My giving birth to four bouncing babies is double, double for the troubles my husband and I have endured”, said elated Mrs Kimathi.
Meru public hospital nurses disclosed that Mrs Kimathi was delivered of her bundles of joy on the night of February 5.
“The babies are doing very well in the nursery. We have kept them here for general observation. This is a rare case in this hospital. We have had triplets and twins,”Nurse Fridah Kawira.
“The first baby weighed two kilogrammes, the second 1.9kg, while the third and fourth weighed 1.8kg each. None of the babies has had a complication so far, and we expect them to be discharged very soon,” added another nurse, Mrs Charity Kirimi.
The 40-year-old first-time mother said she has been looking forward to this moment after her doctor informed early in her pregnancy that she might have quadruplets.
“I am very grateful to God for giving me the four babies at a go. This is a great blessing to my family. I thank the hospital staff for ensuring I got to see this bundle of joy,” Mrs Kimathi said.
She added: “I have been praying and waiting upon God to give me double double for the trouble. I have been childless for a long time and God could not have given me a better gift than this.”
Recalling the ‘tough times” she and her husband had endured in the long wait for a child, she calls on women in a similar situation to pray and not give up hope of getting children.
“At 40, God has done it for me. Let them be patient because when God decides to bless them no one will stop it,” she said, adding that she is the first in her family to have quadruplets, as others have only had triplets.
Mrs Kimathi, a cateress at Kaaga Girls’ High School, said that her top priority once she gets home would be the dedication of her children at her church.
“First of all I will take them to church for prayer and dedication to God before a celebration at home,” she says.
The names for the boys, are Manasseh and Ephraim while the girls will be called Precious and Angel.
“All the names have a meaning for me. The reason why I have called one of the girls Angel is because God spoke to me saying that He would send an angel to guide us to the end. Precious stands for the invaluable things that God has done for our family,” the proud new mother said.
She explained that Manasseh means “God has heard our prayers” while Ephraim means “God has expanded us in the land of trouble”.
She said it was a clear sign that God had come to wipe away the family’s tears and she told how her husband was shot five times by robbers in 2005 and left for dead.
“My husband is a police officer. He was in Shauri Moyo, Nairobi, when he was shot, but God saved him. He is now well and has been promoted to an OCS. This is a big turnaround for my family,” Mrs Kimathi said.
Her sister, Ms Stella Gitune, said they were excited because after a long wait, their sister is finally a mother, blessed with quadruplets.
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