Emmanuel Mbah

As a medical professional, concluding pregnancy isn’t a death sentence is dangerous. Closing your mind to the raw risks women face makes it look like you’d easily dismiss a patient’s unique complaints. And you’re a man who has never experienced pregnancy before. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Now that the dust has settled, if you're a health worker and you supported the notion that pregnancy is a death sentence instead of debunking the falsehood, shame on you! P.S.: those of you on the blocking spree, do well to inform us so we can return the favor asap. Thanks

In a bid to be medically right, people are dismissing lived experience + high mortality rate & epidemiological burden in Nigeria. They lack emotional intelligence & would rather tell a man who just lost his wife in labor or a woman complications that it’s not a death sentence.

They have a right to record their consultation.

I’ve tried to avoid this topic but here’s my take. I understand the intention behind saying pregnancy is not a death sentence, but I find that statement kind of insensitive. Pregnancy may not be a death sentence for most women, but it can absolutely be for some. Women actually die from pregnancy related complications…some barely survive it. Some sustain life-altering complications. I think we should be careful not to invalidate these experiences in an attempt to make pregnancy sound less scary.

I was a Doctor for years before my first pregnancy. I had the theoretical knowledge. I had walked people through the path, done ceaserian sections, delivered vaginally assisted and none assisted, but NOTHING prepared me for My Pregnancy journey. At a point, even though I consider myself a relatively nice doctor, I had to start apologizing to all the patients I had come across… I realized knowing something and experiencing something are just 2 absolutely different things… I used to defend that Mummy Zee lady on this app before the Pregnancy shii bluff…I used to think she was targeted but I realized she’s actually not a kind person… the way she was doubling down in the comment section before she deleted the whole insensitive post… That shii hit a nerve in me…for the pregnant women that was brought in dead due to eclampsia, for the one we lost on the operating table and we all shed hot tears, for the ones that had to deal with post partum complications for the rest of the their lives…for myself and my pregnancy journey; the one that stayed and the one that messed me up so bad and still left…