Diary Of A Teenage Mum
Continued from last edition
Apparently, my boyfriend was more baffled because he couldn t understand how it was possible that I got pregnant. For some reason, he said when he woke up that day, he had a feeling that our meeting was going to end on a very sad note. I told him to find a solution as soon as possible...
The solution came a few days later, Jide (my boyfriend) told me he had found out a drug which could be used to abort the baby, saying that since it was only two weeks since my period was due, it would be much easier. However, things did not turn out as we expected. We spent the next two weeks going from counter to counter because drug store owners were refusing to sell the drug to us without the doctor's prescription, although, I suspected it was more because we looked really young.
About a month and half into the pregnancy, we found the drug, someone in the "hood" had given us the link to someone that knew someone's friend. Words can't describe my relief when I finally laid hands on the drug. I felt like I was holding the cure to all ills.
Jide advised that I take all at once against the prescribed way of taking just two. I agreed with him. We couldn't take chances, and since this was the drug that would stop the pregnancy, it was only right that I took enough to end the pregnancy.
No sooner than I had taken it, I began to experience serious cramps. Jide had long left my room and because I stayed alone, I was the only one in the room. I sat on the bathroom floor, soaked in my own blood, my body dealing me cramps around my lower abdominal region. I cried and cried, my phone was far away, so I couldn't call anybody. At a point I started praying to God, asking for forgiveness. The pains were unbearable. After a couple of hours, they subsided and I slept off.
Hours later, I woke up to the sound of noise around me. It was my best friend cleaning my bathroom. She asked me how I felt and I told her I was feeling much better. She helped clean me up and assisted me to the bed. Immediately I got to my bed, I picked up my phone and typed a break up text to Jide. With this baby aborted, it was a new beginning for me, a new beginning without Jide.
One morning three weeks later, I woke up to this upsetting feeling. I was having chills and my stomach was turning so bad. I had read about the effect of incomplete abortions and I really hoped I wasn't suffering from one. I called my best friend and told her what was happening. She said it was time to visit a proper hospital...