By Funke Oham2023-06-14T08:30:00
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Award-winning mentor and speaker Funke Oham had her life all mapped out, until she realised conceiving wouldn’t be as easy as she thought.
I had my life figured out as a twenty-four-year-old newlywed bride.
No one told me, women experience "prolonged infertility". No one told me not every pregnancy ends in celebration. No one told me I would have to go through sixteen months of trying to conceive and then lose two babies within ten months (stillbirth at 39 weeks and a premature birth at 23 weeks).
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