Nollywood actress and filmmaker Yewande Adekoya has opened up about a painful miscarriage she suffered in 2013, revealing that the experience ultimately strengthened her faith in God.
The actress shared the emotional testimony in a video posted on her verified Instagram page on Saturday, where she recounted how complications arose 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.
Adekoya explained that doctors later confirmed the loss of the pregnancy and informed her that an evacuation procedure would be necessary the following day, news she said left her heartbroken and frightened.
“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,” she recalled.
According to her, the fear of the medical procedure added to her distress, especially because it was her first experience of 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.
She said she later fell asleep after being medicated and had a vivid dream in which a man dressed in white, whom she described as resembling 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,’” Adekoya narrated.
She explained that the procedure was completed in the dream, and she woke up shortly after.
“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 said she managed to get to the bathroom, where the miscarriage completed itself without surgical 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 recounted.
She added that hospital staff attended to her immediately, and subsequent medical examinations showed that evacuation was no longer necessary.
“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,” she said.
Reflecting on the ordeal, Adekoya said the experience became a defining moment in her spiritual journey.
“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 stated.
She added that while God’s ways may not always be easily understood, she believes they are intentional and compassionate.
“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.
The actress concluded by saying her personal encounters make it impossible for her to doubt God’s existence.
“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.
