Binta Ayo Mogaji, a veteran Nollywood actress also known as Mama Insurance, talks about becoming a mother at the age of 40 after having her fallopian tube removed.
She disclosed on the “Talk To B” podcast that she had an ectopic pregnancy and had surgery to remove one fallopian tube, but she was still able to conceive naturally using the tube that was still in place.
Mogaji confessed that she had considered adoption at some point if she hadn’t gotten pregnant by 40.
It is interesting to note that she welcomed motherhood with joy despite the fact that she and her son’s father had no interest in getting married when her son was born, only a few weeks after she turned 40.
Binta Ayo Mogaji on having only child at 40
“Unfortunately enough, the pregnancy was ectopic. They took me to seven different hospitals. The doctor said he wasn’t sure I could survive until the next day. The operation took them, like, seven to nine hours. Some of my colleagues who visited me at the hospital were crying.
“The surgeons had to remove one fallopian tube. But I’m living with one and I had my child through natural birth.
“I stopped looking for a husband; I wanted to make a baby. I said if I don’t have a baby until I’m 40, then I’ll adopt a child.
“[My partner], Jibola came shortly before I was 40 because I had my baby six weeks after I became 40 years old. But he didn’t want to get married as well.”
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