By Katlego Sekhu
Adored South African couple Hungani and Stephanie Ndlovu open up about losing their baby.
In a video uploaded on YouTube, the couple shares that in June 2020 they found out that they were pregnant. “I remember taking the test and then setting up a hidden camera,” shares Stephanie.
“Before going for our first check-up we decided to call our parents as well as our siblings and tell them the good news. It was even more good news for Hungani’s sister because we had just found out that she was pregnant.”
The couple went for their first check-up after eight weeks. Because it was during Covid Hungani couldn’t go into the doctor’s room.
“I already had my video camera out because I wanted to record for him. I take my camera out, it’s on record and it wasn’t even a minute and she literally did the scan and I can’t even remember her exact words.
“I think I just blanked because it was this high energy and excitement for our my first pregnancy and she just said: I’m sorry there’s no embryo, and she said it was a blighted ovum.”
Also called an anembryonic pregnancy. A blighted ovum occurs when an early embryo never develops or stops developing, it’s resorbed and leaves an empty gestational sac. The reason this occurs is often unknown, but it may be due to chromosomal abnormalities in the fertilized egg.
Stephanie’s doctor then told her that the next step would be she has a D&C (Dilation and curettage) which is to “clean out the uterus. “But because it was Covid, It was recommended that I should do the cleaning out at home using medication, ” she adds.
“She told me the specifics of what would need to be taken and told me it wouldn’t be pleasant and so forth.”
Hungani adds that while waiting in the reception area, he couldn’t wait to see the video but noticed by his wife’s facial expression that something was wrong.
“And we’re walking to the car and no one is saying anything. At that point, a thought of a miscarriage wasn’t a thing to me. She then hands me the phone and tells me there’s no baby. I don’t think we spoke,” he shares.
The couple shares their experience in detail on their YouTube channel.
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