Mother gives birth to miracle baby boy
AFTER a desperate struggle to have a baby and battling fertility issues, Melisa Mupoperi was finally given a chance at motherhood.
This was when two of Dora Nginza Hospital’s senior doctors joined forces to keep the mom and baby alive – and today they are getting ready to go home.
“I am so happy to be a mom,” Mupoperi, 22, said.
“I am going to be a very good mom.”
Her son, Emeka Anenyasha, was born at 26 weeks in June.
“When I found out I was pregnant, I was very happy. I was a bit scared too.”
When she went into labour at 25 weeks, Mupoperi was rushed to hospital, where department of obstetrics and gynaecology head Dr Mfundo Mabenge was given her case.
“I was very worried but he managed to help me hold on for another week,” she said.
Her baby weighed just over 700 grams when he was born.
“When I first saw my baby I was so shocked. I was expecting someone much bigger.
“He was covered up because he was jaundiced.
“It was only his little hands that were sticking out. How can anybody be so tiny?”
For the past three months Mupoperi had been living at the hospital, watching her little boy fight for his life.
“There were days when I thought I must get ready to let him go but he kept fighting.
“Emeka now weighs 1.7kg. He is more than double his birth weight.
“I think this is a real sign of the power of God, the grace of God. He really does listen when we pray,” she said.
“That is why I gave him the second name Anenyasha. It means God’s grace.”
Mupoperi said: “No words can describe how really thankful I am to Dr Mabenge and Farhaad Khan, the head of the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit.”