My wife and I have been trying to have a baby, it’s been three years now since we got married but still nothing seem to happen. To me and to my family it is important to have a child especially if you’re married it is a must to have a child.

We’ve been trying everything that the doctors said we should try, we also went to different traditional healers to find our way out of this pain of not having a baby.

One day I got home from work my wife waiting for me as usual, she told me the greatest news of my life that she’s going to conceive a baby. I couldn’t understand at first because this was all new to me and it was so hard to adjust. I took my glorious time to finally accept that my wife is pregnant.

The way I was so happy was just unexplainable, I was really overjoyed to hear the good news after so many years of waiting to have a child .

Fast forward to when my wife was giving birth, my family was there cause obviously everyone new my wife was pregnant, except for my mother who was not happy at all. Ever since she was told my wife was pregnant she did not take the news well and it seems she wanted nothing to do with my child.

My wife conceived a baby boy. I was so excited my wife and I were shedding tears of joy and the way she was so happy had mad me a better man. My wife spent almost a week in hospital due to some complications during birth so the doctors needed to monitor her well before she could be discharged together with the baby.

I remember very well it was Tuesday the day before my wife gets discharged, when I got a call from the hospital stating that I must rush to the hospital, the time was around 20:00. I had to ask my neighbour to drop me at the hospital since I don’t have any kind of transport.

When I got there, I quickly rushed inside to attend to me wife, only to find out that my son was missing. I couldn’t understand how a baby could go missing inside the hospital’s premises, but the doctors just told me that this is a police case. When I entered my wife’s ward there was a mess, she was like a crazy woman busy demanding her baby.

Two weeks has passed since our son has been missing. One afternoon I was busy minding my own business when a nearby neighbour came to me and told me, “I saw your mother on the day your baby went missing holding a crying baby at night going near the river. I just couldn’t keep quiet for too long.”

Just like that she just went and didn’t tell me any further information.

I decided to tell my dad about what I have been told. We went to the river with the police to search if we couldn’t find anything. When we got there the police dog sniffed near a tree that had a knife wounds. My father dug with the help of the police, and we found my baby’s tiny body wrapped in a plastic with no intestines and private part. That’s when I realised that my mother was heartless. I will never be able to forgive her at all.

And now I just don’t know how I’m going to address this to my wife.