Help! I have fallen in love with my doctor (2)

We continue Juliet’’s story. She was dating Tony, a married man. They parted ways because Tony’’s wife had got wind of their affair. But Juliet didn’’t know she was already pregnant for him. With no other man to cater for her, she eventually fell in love with her doctor.

“I didn’t want to tell Tony about my pregnancy because I knew that wouldn’t make him happy. He didn’t want anything that would jeopardize his marriage. The first thing I did was to pack out of my apartment. I felt unsafe there since Tony told me one of my neighbours told his wife about us. The person may also tell the woman about my pregnancy. I later registered with a hospital close to my new place of abode for antenatal care. It was a private hospital and the doctor was indeed caring. He took my case to the heart and gave me adequate attention each time I came for antenatal,” Juliet said.

When Juliet was about to register in the hospital, she was told that before her date of delivery, she was supposed to bring her husband to donate a pint of blood for the hospital’s blood bank in case of some eventualities. “I was shocked to hear that because that was common with general/teaching hospitals and not private hospitals. I was also told that the consultant in charge of the hospital worked in a teaching hospital for years before he established his own and that he got that idea from where he worked before. After I was registered, I was always coming for my antenatal clinic every month according to my doctor’s instruction. Until one day, a nurse told me to hold on and see the consultant. That he needed to see me because I was one of those very few whose husbands were yet to donate blood. I was somehow worried and decided in my mind to opt out of the hospital for another private hospital if they insisted. Reason being that I had no husband to donate blood for me. I wasn’t even married in the first. And the man responsible for my pregnancy was not even aware because he would insist I terminate it. I had already told my mum I was pregnant, she advised me never to tamper with it. And that I should remain in Lagos, have my baby and bring the baby back home. She discussed on the phone with me one night that she had already told my father about it and if the baby happened to be a male child, my father wouldn’t mind taking him up not as his grandson but his own son. He needed an heir badly because he had no male child. I have five younger sisters. I agreed and was happy that my family was not angry with me for getting pregnant out of wedlock,” she said.

Help! I have fallen in love with my doctor (1)

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42-year-old Juliet has placed her hope on God to get a good and caring husband so that she would settle down and have children. She had longed to settle immediately after her one year compulsory national service but all to no avail. She had believed in the institution of marriage and had ardently detested late marriage.

“Even while I was doing my primary assignment in Ibadan, as a youth corper, I was hoping that before I was through with it, I would bring a suitor home to my parents. That was the promise I made to my mum who too never liked the idea of a girl settling down when she was desperate.

“I actually wanted to get married at 24, though I was 22 when I was serving. So, I was thinking that if I should meet the person, we would use a year or more than that to study ourselves before the marriage. But the more I hoped to achieve my dream, the more it appeared as if it was a herculean task,” she said.