Couple gets another baby after 18 years waiting

This year also, 2 of wife’s siblings had kids 10years after marriage and 11 years after last born respectively

It was
 extraordinary joy for the family of Okechukwu and Ugo Ijeoma Kalu at their home in Wuse 2 Abuja as friends and family members gathered to celebrate. It was extraordinary type of festivity they never had in 18 years – welcome a new baby.

To drive home the uniqueness, the immediate elder sister of the baby celebrated that day is a final year undergraduate.

Joy, a Mass Communication final year student at the Bowen University told Abuja metro that “when the baby was born, she looked so strange to me. My mind could not really accept her as real, although the joy was there. All my 18 years, I never knew how it feels to have a sibling. So sometimes I will see her and feel her so distant. But now the reality and joy is becoming real that at last I truly have a younger one of same parents like most of the people I know.

Whether there was reality in the coming of the little one that brought great jubilation or not, the fact is that she is real, she is there and she is called Jane, Chidinma and she is called Favour too. Her presence lit up the gloom of the family and ignited excitement like never known to them in the past 18 years of waiting for her arrival.



baby Chidinma

And to the parents of the little bundle of wonder, the feeling is just inexplicable. The mum who the baby looks every inch like during her testimony at the Presbyterian Church, Wuse 2 broke down midway in her tale of pains and seeming endless search. She admitted naturally welcoming the baby with great joy, no doubt, but she had regrets that her dad who passed on two years ago didn’t see this happen.

Her husband, Okechukwu was so overwhelmed with excitement that he simply got bereft of words. He simply managed to ask: “what would you expect a person in my position to say. I really have much to say but I don’t know how and where to start.”

But if you think the Ijeoma family of Nguzu Edda has a great story to tell, you will need to listen to the elder brother of Mrs. Ijeoma, Prince Sunny Ugwuocha, a commissioner with the Ebonyi state government in charge of cement production raise the bar with his extraordinary dimension.

He revealed to Abuja Metro that: “My younger sister’s case is just a tip off the larger chunk of extraordinary goodness of God in our family this year. Her sister married over 10 years ago and had her first child just a little over what we are celebrating today. As if that is not enough, my own wife had a baby recently. The immediate elder one to my new baby is eleven and already in secondary school. So what we witnessed in the family, I am not sure ever happened elsewhere. This is just more than miracle and I think the family must roll out the drums of thanksgiving to the Almighty God for this unequaled mercy. When the story of miracles is told anytime and anywhere, the Ugwuocha family must be cited as an outstanding instance.”