‘We Got Pregnant With Twins’ – Adesua Etomi And Banky W Open Up About Child Conception Journey (Video)

Nollywood actress, Adesua Etomi and her singer husband, Olubankole Wellington better known as Banky W have opened up about their child conception journey and how their faith in God helped them during that period.

The celebrity couple recounted their experience which included miscarriage their twins, during a seminar at The Waterbrook church.

It would be recalled that the couple, who tied the knot in November 2017, announced the birth of their first child, a baby boy on Monday, February 22.

Read Also: Banky W And Adesua Etomi Welcome First Child, A Baby Boy (Photos)

However, speaking about how they were finally able to birth a child after over 2 years of marriage, Adesua and Banky W revealed some personal details about their lives.

The actress stated that they decided to have kids early because how busy they would get in coming years, stressing;

We were like we are going to be so busy, we may as well just get the children out of the way. Let’s do it now and let it come through. And then nothing happened. You try and try and nothing happened.

Following this, Adesua stated that she told her husband she wanted to try In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) – this is one of the more widely known types of assisted reproductive technology (ART). It works by using a combination of medicines and surgical procedures to help sperm fertilize an egg, and help the fertilised egg implant in your uterus.

The new mother noted;

I remember having a conversation with Banky and I was like ‘let’s go do IVF’. And Banky was like ‘calm down, it has even been a year, give it a year’. So a year came, when it was eleven months and a couple of days, I was like ‘hey how far, so it’s been a year, let’s go try IVF’.

Following IVF procedure, they conceived and it was a set of twins, unfortunately they lost the babies.

Adesua explained;

So we got pregnant and we got pregnant with twins. And we had gone for the scans, we had seen the heartbeats. At this point very few people knew what happened. Every report that you have heard was a lie because nobody knew what happened.

So during a routine checkup, we went back to the hospital to have a scan and I just saw the doctor’s face…you know when something is wrong, sometimes you can tell. She was scanning and scanning and I was like what’s wrong and she said ‘oh nothing’ and I looked at the nurse’s face I’m and asked what’s wrong and she said ‘Adesua I’m looking for the heartbeats’.

She added;

So I went home and I remember Banky not being at home that time and I remember collapsing on the floor wailing. Wailing is different from crying, it’s like a deep groin in your chest. I’m sharing because many women go through this and nobody talks about it because it is almost like a thing of shame for whatever reason and I don’t know why.

So we said we were going to pray over the weekend and go back for the scan on Tuesday or Monday can’t remember now, hoping that God would do something.

On his part, Banky W narrated how the heartbeats of their twins not only stopped but started shrinking and how they lost the babies.

He explained;

We went for the scan, not only did we not see heartbeats but the embryos were shrinking, they were decaying. When we found out we were losing them and we needed to do an evacuation, it was a very emotional time for her.

The movie star then recounted how she collapsed immediately after she got home from the hospital.

Speaking further, Adesua spoke about constant cyber billing and trolling over her inability to bear a child.

She said;

It was like a monthly disappointment. When you want a child, one or two months seem like a long time, talk less of people who have waited for years. So it was constant disappointment. We got pregnant with our son after two and half years, and I can tell you that every single day of those years, someone trolled me.

The couple talked about how they planned on adopting or even surrogacy at some point, but eventually decided to put a stop to every human effort and wait patiently on God. 

Adesua revealed how their family pastor told them to give it six months. This was followed by several dreams and visions of them carrying their baby.

Months after prayers, Adesua revealed that she found out that she was pregnant and all she said as she looked at her test result was; “Olubankole God has done it”.

Watch the full video below;