Nollywood actress and filmmaker, Yewande Adekoya, has shared a personal account of a miscarriage she suffered in 2013, revealing that the experience reinforced her belief in God.
The actress made the disclosure on Saturday in an emotional video shared on her verified Instagram page, where she spoke about being rushed to the hospital after experiencing heavy bleeding during her first pregnancy.
“A few years ago, I remember it was 2013. I was pregnant at the time. After some months, I started to bleed, so I was rushed to the hospital. I knew I was miscarrying, like I was about losing the baby,” she said.
Adekoya explained that doctors later confirmed the loss of the pregnancy and told her that an evacuation procedure would be required the following morning, a development she said left her heartbroken and fearful.
“They told me the baby had died and we needed to do an evacuation. I had been told that evacuation was very painful. I was so sad that I’d lost my baby. I was in serious pain. I cried all through the night,” she said.
She noted that her anxiety was heightened by the fact that it was her first pregnancy and she was terrified of the procedure.
“I was also afraid of the evacuation process that was going to be done for me in the morning. If this whole miscarriage process is this painful, how would evacuation be?” she asked.
According to the actress, she later fell asleep after taking medication and had a vivid dream in which a man dressed in white, whom she said looked like a doctor, appeared to her.
“In my dream, a man came to me. He was wearing white. He was dressed like a doctor. And then he came to me and said, ‘It is time.’ I said, ‘For what?’ He said, ‘For your evacuation process,’” she narrated.
She said the procedure was carried out in the dream, after which she woke up during the night.
“As soon as I sat up in bed, I felt a heavy push in my bowel. I felt like something was coming through,” she said.
Adekoya explained that she managed to get to the bathroom, where the miscarriage was completed without medical intervention.
“As soon as I got into the bathroom and stood at the centre of the bathroom, the baby that died fell to the ground. Blood, formation, whatever. It fell to the ground,” she said.
She added that hospital staff attended to her immediately, and subsequent medical examinations showed that an evacuation was no longer necessary.
“When the doctors came, they did a scan, and they said there would be no need for an evacuation because the baby was no longer there. It had come out itself, and I was fine to go home,” Adekoya stated.
Reflecting on the experience, the actress said it had a profound impact on her faith and understanding of God.
“So I asked him, can you confidently say there is no God? In my dream, somebody performed an evacuation process on me, and I woke up, and the baby came out itself without any pain,” she said.
She added that while God’s ways may not always be clear, she believes they are intentional.
“Tell me God is not kind. His ways might not be our way. Sometimes we don’t understand how he moves, but it’s not our business to understand how God moves. It’s our business to trust that he knows best,” she said.
Adekoya concluded by saying that her personal experiences make it impossible for her to doubt the existence of God.
“I cannot come out and say there is no God because I have experienced a lot of things that I know are not ordinary. There is God, and He is faithful,” she said.
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