Actress and producer Bimpe Akintunde has shared an emotional account of her journey to motherhood after surviving a high-risk pregnancy marked by health scares and repeated hospital visits.
In an Instagram post on Friday, the actress revealed that she battled low blood pressure from January, leading to at least six emergency treatments during her pregnancy.
She recounted collapsing in February while filming ‘Return of Sambala’ in Ikorodu and experiencing several frightening dreams and warnings from people unaware she was expecting.
Despite the challenges, Akintunde said her faith in God kept her strong. “My God is part of this journey; He won’t leave me all alone by myself,” she wrote.
She narrated how, on July 17, she went for routine treatment at her clinic but became weak and decided to stay overnight.
The following morning, doctors advised her to prepare for delivery after discovering she was in labour.
In what she described as the clinic’s fastest delivery of the year, Akintunde gave birth without complications after less than three hours of labour.
”Exactly 4 weeks ago, I faced my most sacred dream!!! The delivery room, I have never been so scared all my life, all thru the 9 months journey, nah God hand i dey, LOW BP started since January, I kept been Strong, I go to work, I remember collapsing on @iamkennygeorge in early Feb while filming the Return of SAMBALA in Ikorodu, luckily for me my clinic is in Ikorodu, I drove myself straight to the clinic, I was in and out of the hospital on emergency treatment for like 6 times during this pregnancy all because I was battling LOW BP, so many scary dreams and death revelations even from ppl that didn’t see me nor are aware that I was pregnant o, it was indeed a tough and scary journey but one thing I know for sure is that My God is part of this journey, he won’t leave me all alone by myself!!!! I sha keep telling ppl that are close to me to keep me in prayers and me sef I face God squarely.
“Fast forward to 17th of July (Thursday) our clinic days are Thursdays, so I drove myself to the clinic they gave me some treatment, I got weak and I decided to sleep in hospital, so on this fateful Friday morning I was getting ready to go home and the doctor in charge asked me to come to delivery to check me, nah so then ask me to stay back in the hospital o, I asked if baby is coming ni and the doctor said yes!!! Aya mi ja, nah so I enter am o, hmmm, I just started playing this song ‘OMO OBA MA BERU’ I went to use the rest room, I see say water break, I called doctor, she said ‘NO!!! that’s too fast, nah, so we begin o, contraction no be anybody mate oooo, I kept praying, singing, dancing, when I begin pinch my doctor I no know!! She said ‘E o gba Adura mon, e n ja mi le’ kanna ni’
”As contraction get serious I no even know where I drop my phones again, Behold my Lovers all of these doesn’t take up to 3 hours My precious Gift from God arrived!!!!! Haaaaaa, I was thinking till like midnight or something… But my God came thru in a miraculous way!!!
”After almost 10 years, not CS, no complications, the fastest labor recorded in the clinic this year!!! Mom n daughter doing fine!!!! Dear God, it can only be you… Alhamdulillai Robil Alameen”, she wrote.
Fans and colleagues have flooded her page with congratulatory messages, celebrating both the actress’s resilience and the arrival of her baby.
