Honestly the feeling of being a dad has so much humbled me but I must say it's a thing of joy. I remember back then when my mum would take me to visit someone who just gave birth and when my mind I would just be like "why are they doing happy happy, no be baby them just born like normal thing" lol.

Well as one got more matured and the atmosphere for marriage starting setting in, it was quite scary especially when you hear the way some people make it seem like marriage is just like bondage. However give or take man needs a helper, companion and mother of his home so I crossed my mind and boom, I became a married man.

Fast forward to how time flies, my wife got pregnant about a month after our wedding and my heart starting beating everyday whenever I think of the fact that I will start buying pampers and baby food. Before I knew it my wife told me she needed to be going for checkup in the hospital every three months or so, her level of eating increased and I was just observing like "na so e dey be abi na you just dey package this style for me".

We had projected that the baby would be due for delivery around the first week of February or there about so I was preparing myself very well for the moment but what I knew I will not try is to be inside delivery room with my wife because na me go shout and cry pass who dey push, that's if I no even faint for there. But on the 20th of January my wife couldn't sleep all night and was crying too much complaining of her head. I was just there and didn't know what to do so I just check for any pain killer medicine and gave her. In the morning of January 21 I just gave her some money to go to the hospital for final checkup and tell the doctor about her head pain. She went and I didn't hear from her till evening when her family people called me to come to the hospital that she was due for delivery that day. When I heard that I just rushed from my office to one bar, rushed some heavy shots of whiskey and headed to the hospital.

On getting there, I met her mum, dad, aunties and sisters there. For my mind I say na wa ooo, everybody just pack come hospital like say my wife wan born Jesus Christ again. Well after paying the bills and everything they told me she was going be there till probably the next day for observation so I should go home and get some things then come early in the morning.

That night I couldn't sleep so I was just sipping whiskey all through the night, thinking of different names for a male and female child because I didn't know which is gonna come. Early in the morning on the 22nd of January, I just took everything I rushed to the hospital. Immediately I entered the room, her mum just stood up with a baby in her hands and handed the baby to me. Lo and behold the baby was a beautiful bouncing baby girl, my first fruit. And I said to myself while tears dropped from my eyes "Indeed, this is my beloved daughter in whom I shall be well pleased"

That feeling is unimaginable so I know I'm not alone in this.

Less I forget, so much respect to all the mothers out there. I swear una dey try no be small. I know what I saw during the nine months alone to carry that baby inside you, then come push am out again. God bless you all so much.

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Like the future started that day

It's feel like , I'm now a complete man

The feeling is out of this world. It felt as if i was carrying my mini-self in my own hands.