A Nigerian woman has told the very sad story of how her neighbour and the baby in her womb died after a prolonged labour.
According to Jane Arike Francis, her pregnant neighbor had been in labour for one week but her husband insisted on her giving birth at home despite the midwife’s advice to take her to the hospital for a C-section.
Writing further, Jane said the woman’s husband insisted on home delivery because their two previous children were delivered at home.
Traumatized about the avoidable death of the woman, Jane took to Facebook on Sunday, December 1 to share the sad story:
“I just lost a neighbor this afternoon, and I feel really traumatized about it because this was such an avoidable death.
This woman had been in labor for a week. She gave birth to her first and second children at home, but for this one, the midwife said she needed to be operated on, seeing that she couldn’t deliver on her own.
However, her husband refused and said, “this isn’t her first time giving birth on her own”, so, he left her at home.
On Wednesday, when she couldn’t bear the pain any longer, they finally took her to the hospital for the C-section, which was successful, but unfortunately, the child was already dead. Today, she passed away too.”
