Being A Dad in My Fifties
After many years of trying, both naturally or through artificial means, we finally welcomed our boy in January 2023. It had been a tough journey, spanning more than a decade, both physically for my wife and emotionally for both of us. We almost became parents in 2017 and 2020 but it was not to be then. The anguish of our loss still lingers within our hearts and looms over us whenever we think of them. While we were elated with joy when we found out that my wife was pregnant last May, there were trepidations because we have had 2 unsuccessful pregnancies previously. However, with much prayers and perseverence, we managed to have a somewhat uneventful pregnancy. Perhaps "uneventful" is an overstatement as we did have a scare in the first trimester that had caused much consternation and concern. But by God's grace, the baby developed well and each visit to the gynaecologist watered our hope. Our boy made his entrance into the world via a planned caesarean sec