- Nigerian food content creator Ify’s Kitchen shares her nine-year infertility journey, highlighting emotional and societal challenges she faced.
- In an interview on the Terms and Conditions podcast, the content creator shared the emotional turmoil of the waiting period for a child.
She remarked, “It wasn’t the best at all and one thing that really messes with you during the waiting period is you have no idea. It’s a different thing if someone comes to you to tell you that you’d give birth after seven or eight years but you have no clue.”
Initially, Ify and her husband intended to enjoy their first year of marriage without the immediate pressure of starting a family. However, by the second year, they began to question their situation. “My husband and I planned to just chill for the first year and not try for kids but by the second year we were like, ‘Wait a minute, isn’t it supposed to be very easy?” she added.
She related how their tension developed over the long run, and the delayed stand by antagonistically impacted her psychological and profound prosperity, driving her to feel like God had neglected her.
“It was very difficult, second-year people were like it’d happen but by the third year, I didn’t know what was happening. It was really really hard and then you’d see people talking about women giving birth after 20 years,” said Ify.
She concluded, “I remember seeing a comment somewhere that read, ‘Those of you who give birth easily don’t know what God has done for you, God loves you.’ I was like, ‘God really hates me,’ and it wasn’t directed at me, I wept at work that day and asked God what I had done and why he doesn’t love me.”
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