A medical expert, Dr. Babatunde Oguniran, has identified fibroid as the major cause of infertility, adding that it has plagued women not to conceive.
Oguniran, who stated this at the second edition of Ibidunni Udaghalo Foundation, tagged: Ma gbe temijo, explained that fibroid are the commonest benign tumors in the uterus.
He mentioned other causes of infertility which include obesity, early menarche, black race, null purity, lamenting that some women do not feel the sysmptom of this disease, hence it poses damage to them.
“If the semen, tubes and ovaries are tested okay, it might just be the fibroid alone and it could be located in inner layer where the baby stays. The best form of treating it is before conception.” He said.
Speaking at the event, the founder, Mrs Ibidunni Udaghalo, lamented that the society does not help in assuaging the pressures but rather adds salt to injuries of waiting mothers.
“To be honest, there is a stigma in our societies that have a way of labeling a waiting mother as barren and calling her fruitless, cursed and it is not easy to admit and come out for help because you really don’t want to add to your pain. So when start referring to woman who she is not, it can be very painful.
“The pain a woman feels at that point is to get children, she can go anywhere, do anything and eat anything. It takes the grace of God to reject certain things.
“But our societies do not real make easy for women like us who didn’t choose to be barren. We did not choose to come to the world without having children.
“Every woman has a dream of carrying her own child. When a waiting mother is mocked it is like adding pain to an existing pain.” She said.