Nwala: THE BITTERSWEET EXPERIENCE

CHAPTER 40 –
© OPEYEMI OJERINDE AKINTUNDE

The day of delivery came like a thief in the night, my EDD was still three weeks away, but I woke up to use the restroom one night, and boom! My water broke.

I was scared I might miscarry again, but Reuben kept speaking in tongues…

“My babies are soaked in the blood of Jesus, Mercy of God speaks over the three of you, I will not lose any of you. The three of you are preserved in Jesus name”

Truly, the three of us came out of the delivery room hale and hearty, but my heart was not hearty, I had seen something that had thrown me off balance. Something had gone wrong.

Immediately the babies came out, and they put them on my chest, I saw my worst fear happening…

“He came out first!” A very fair-skinned baby was put on my chest. Without anyone telling me, he was Daniel’s son. Daniel was fair-skinned while Reuben was dark-skinned like me. The baby looked exactly like Daniel.

“He came out second” He was a bit dark-skinned and looked like Reuben, He was longer just like his tall dad…

I didn’t want to believe my eyes

“Is it possible to have twins from different fathers? I asked myself…

The babies were recovered from me and were cleaned up.

I was in so much fear and sadness; I didn’t want to face Reuben. I wished the fair baby could die…

As I was wheeled to my room, I was tempted to ask one of the nurses if it was possible to be impregnated by two men and the babies come as twins, but I thought twice about it and concluded it was not safe. I know asking the Doctor would be safer.

‘Beauty! We did it! God saw us through” Reuben said with so much excitement. He was waiting in the corridor. He followed me holding my hand as I was wheeled to the room…

“Pastor, you can come to see the babies” A nurse called out to him and I held his hand tightly, I didn’t want him to see what I knew might break his heart…

“Babe! I will be back” He said and before I could stop him, he was gone.

The next five minutes were like an eternity to me…

When he stepped in, I knew he had a lot on his mind, but was trying to cover up…

“The babies are handsome, one looks like me, and the other, a fair version of you,” He said smiling. I could see between the smiles that he was puzzled.

“Let me put a call across to everyone, I wanted our miracles to arrive before I called,” Reuben said and walked out…

The mood of Reuben had dropped, but he was trying to keep up the excitement….


Everyone who saw the babies knew something was wrong… My family and his family could not hide their puzzled look. Everyone testified the dark-skinned baby was a replica of Reuben, but out of pure respect, they would say the fair one was a light-skinned version of me. The truth was anyone who knew Daniel would know the baby was for Daniel. I saw the way Amara looked at me in disappointment and kept scrolling through her phone…

My Human Angel came and saved me…

Guess who? Bishop!

When Bishop saw the boys, he smiled!

“Wow! Our God is wonderful”

Trust my mother-in-law to speak…

“The dark one looks like us, but the fair one must be an Angel,” she said laughing.

The truth is it was awkward because my parents were both dark-skinned, likewise his parents, and we; Reuben & I were dark-skinned, so where was the out-rightly fair-skinned baby coming from?

“I believe this boy is a special boy, with a special message. He must take his fairness from a distant ancestor” Bishop said.

“Welcome my Grandsons….” The Bishop prayed over them.


Everyone had left except Amara. Reuben also went home to bring some provisions for me.

“Why are you staring at me like that?” I summoned up the courage to ask Amara. Her piercing eyes were saying so much without her opening her mouth.

“Did you reach out to Daniel to reverse the curse?” Amara asked directly

I nodded in the positive. There was no point lying. I needed someone I could discuss with. Amara placed her hand on her head in sadness.

“And you slept with him?’ Amara jumped to the end of the story.

“Not that I went there with the motive,….” I was trying to find an excuse

“Beauty, you are finished, you have Daniel’s baby in your marriage with Reuben! Jesus!” Amara summed it up

“Amara, but it is not possible, scientifically is it possible?” I asked in fear

“Yes, the moment I saw the babies I knew the fair child belonged to Daniel, the shape of his head, and his protruded upper lip is Daniel in full. I decided to research online, and I found out that it has occurred in several countries” Amara brought my fear out in the open…

She passed me her phone, and I saw an article titled “Twins Born to Teen by two separate fathers” My world came crashing, I read further…

“The biological phenomenon of giving birth to twins with two different biological fathers is called “Heteropaternal superfecundation”.
This is the fertilization of two or more ova from the same cycle by sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse, which can lead to twin babies from two separate biological fathers. In plain English, when a woman has intercourse with two different men in a SHORT period while ovulating, both men can impregnate her separately…”
My life ended!

My life had just become a bittersweet life!

To be continued…