Nollywood actress and filmmaker, Yewande Adekoya
Nollywood actress and filmmaker, Yewande Adekoya, on Saturday shared a deeply personal account of a miscarriage she experienced in 2013, describing how the incident strengthened her belief in God.
Adekoya spoke in an emotional video posted on her verified Instagram page, where she recounted how she was rushed to the hospital after experiencing severe bleeding during her first pregnancy.
“A few years ago, I remember it was 2013. I was pregnant at the time. After some months, I started to bleed, so I was rushed to the hospital. I knew I was miscarrying, like I was about losing the baby,” she said.
According to the actress, doctors confirmed that the pregnancy had been lost and informed her that an evacuation procedure would be required the following morning. She said the news left her devastated and terrified.
“They told me the baby had died and we needed to do an evacuation. I had been told that evacuation was very painful. I was so sad that I’d lost my baby. I was in serious pain. I cried all through the night,” Adekoya said.
She explained that the fear of the procedure compounded her emotional distress, especially as it was her first pregnancy.
“I was also afraid of the evacuation process that was going to be done for me in the morning. If this whole miscarriage process is this painful, how would evacuation be?” she asked.
Adekoya said she eventually fell asleep after being given medication and had a vivid dream in which a man dressed in white, whom she described as looking like a doctor, appeared to her.
“In my dream, a man came to me. He was wearing white. He was dressed like a doctor. And then he came to me and said, ‘It is time.’ I said, ‘For what?’ He said, ‘For your evacuation process,’” she narrated.
She said the procedure was carried out successfully in the dream, after which she woke up in the middle of the night.
“As soon as I sat up in bed, I felt a heavy push in my bowel. I felt like something was coming through,” she said.
The actress explained that she struggled to the bathroom, where the miscarriage completed itself without medical intervention.
“As soon as I got into the bathroom and stood at the centre of the bathroom, the baby that died fell to the ground. Blood, formation, whatever. It fell to the ground,” she said.
She added that hospital staff assisted her and that medical checks conducted later confirmed that there was no longer any need for evacuation.
“When the doctors came, they did a scan, and they said there would be no need for an evacuation because the baby was no longer there. It had come out itself, and I was fine to go home,” Adekoya stated.
Reflecting on the experience, the actress said it shaped her faith and conviction about God’s presence in her life.
“So I asked him, can you confidently say there is no God? In my dream, somebody performed an evacuation process on me, and I woke up, and the baby came out itself without any pain,” she said.
Adekoya maintained that while God’s ways may not always be understood, she believes they are purposeful.
“Tell me God is not kind. His ways might not be our way. Sometimes we don’t understand how he moves, but it’s not our business to understand how God moves. It’s our business to trust that he knows best,” she said.
She concluded by stating that her personal experiences make it impossible for her to deny the existence of God.
“I cannot come out and say there is no God because I have experienced a lot of things that I know are not ordinary. There is God, and He is faithful,” Adekoya said.
