On Air Personality, Tolu ‘Toolz‘ Oniru-Demuren revealed tragic details of how she lost her first child. She opened up during Betty Irabor’s Life Lessons series.
Toolz who recently became Director of Programmes at Beat FM said that she got pregnant a few months after her wedding and she began looking forward to having a baby.However, as the pregnancy approached 6 months, she noticed her baby was not moving anymore.
According to her, the hospital she visited in Nigeria were not capable enough. They could not identify the problem. So she had to travel to the United Kingdom to do a scan which showed that her baby was too small and was unlikely to survive.
Narrating her experience, she said:
“I never once thought that the health of my child would be an issue,”
“I heard a voice saying ‘this isn’t going to work out but you’re going to be OK’.”
She continued: “That was horrible, the day that I did the scan and there was just like nothing. When we did the last scan, there was nothing, like, no movement, nothing.”
“Oh my gosh, it was horrible, it was absolutely horrible,” she added.
She said she was told that she would be given some medications and will come back in three days to push the baby out. The medications were given to her on Thursday and she was told to come back on Sunday. However, she went into labour on Saturday.
On that fateful Saturday while she was preparing breakfast, she felt pain and went to the bathroom.
She said: “From there, the pain went from two to twelve. And I remember screaming… I was in so much pain and that’s when I realized that gosh, I’m in labour.
“I was in labour for about 6 or 7 hours…
“It was very very traumatic. I try not to think about it too much.
“I think one of the worst moments after that… of course this was in the UK, they had to do like an autopsy, I had to arrange a funeral. It was horrible.
“That whole time, I was just like, ‘Yeah, God, I’m done’. I’m like ‘come and take me, I’m gone”