Woman Gives Birth To Baby Holding A Rosary

Barely
three months after the reported birth of a baby with a mini-Quran in
Mushin area of Lagos state, another oddity has occurred in Sagamu, Ogun
State as a woman purportedly delivered a baby boy with an Islamic rosary
otherwise known as Tesbeu. Investigation by Sunday Sun revealed that
the boy was delivered on Tuesday at Rotoluwa Maternity Home along Aiyepe
road at about 11.45pm.

Mrs
Gbemisola Hamsat, a 35-year-old mother of five,was said to have been
delivered of the baby and the rosary. Expectedly, the strange delivery
has turned their No.2 Odujoko Street, off Prison road residence into a
Mecca of sorts as people thronged the area to confirm the tale. The
Matron of the Maternity Home, Mrs. Sarah Olurotimi Oloyede, a
traditional birth attendant confirmed that she took the delivery of the
somewhat strange child. Her words: “I heard a sound of something
dropping into the bed pan before the placenta came out.

It
sounded as if it was an iron or something with weight that dropped on
it and when I checked it closely, I saw a rosary covered with thick
blood’’. Mrs Oloyede said that when she took the rosary by the ‘tail’ to
examine it properly, all the clotting blood on it fell off leaving the
shinning rosary. A Christian, Oloyede said that t she immediately
invited her husband and some Muslim clerics in the area to come and
behold the strange birth by her Christian patient.

According
to her, the shout of “Allahu Akbar” (God is Great) rented the air as
hundreds of people trooped in to behold what happened. According to her,
the rosary was not around the neck of the boy when he was delivered by
her mother. She explained that the birth of the boy was miraculous and
mysterious because a patient who was on the hospital bed for over four
days and was  unable to walk and eat, immediately got up and  walked,
demanding for food which she ate on hearing the cry of the new baby.

She
said the boy was held on to the rosary and did not allow anyone to
remove it from him despite that he was yet to open his eyes. The baby’s
mother said she is a Christian while her husband is a Muslim and
expressed surprise at the development. Father of the baby,45-year-old Mr
Idris Hamsat, said the wonderful delivery of his son helped to confirm
his faith in Allah, saying, “Allah is indeed righteous and good”. Chief
Imam of Remoland, Alhaji Anofi Adeyemi Allinson who doubles as the Ogun
State President of League of Imams and Alphas likened the wonder birth
to the visit of Prophet Musa to Medina where Allah sent his light to
herald his visit.

The
Islamic cleric said: “Almighty Allah is sending us signals and message
which we must all understand.” First,it was about a baby born with a
miniature of the Holy Quran and now, a baby boy with Tesbeu.” The
Divisional Police Officer (DPO) for Sagamu Area, Mr. Wale Lawal was said
to have led his officers and men to behold the mystery baby while
prominent indigenes in Remo town were said to have also visited the
hospital. In his reaction, the Chief Medical Director of Ogun State
General Hospital, Ijebu Ode, Dr Wellington Ogunsanya said there was no
biological link of the story with the normal conception and baby
delivery by a woman.

According
to him, “such claim could only be possible with the help of a third
party who might have implanted the rosary into the woman while she was
un-aware.” He said that such claims might be due to some women who
inserted Intra –Uterine Device (IUD) through their vaginas into the
uterus adding that this may not necessarily disturb the growth of the
baby. Dr Ogunsanya noted that in such cases, it was possible for the
baby during delivery, to hold on to or bring such an object out of the
woman. The medical director said that the case of a boy and a rosary
being born by a woman had no correlation medically.