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Dealing with Postpartum Depression, NICU Baby and the Financial Implications

·1 hr 39 min·5 clips

A second hospital scan reveals the pregnancy is already 20 weeks along.

1. Due Parenting Podcast features Prem Suleiman and Linda Idrepo Suleiman discussing an unexpected pregnancy, premature delivery, family support, and household pressures. 2. Prem Suleiman and Linda Idrepo Suleiman host Stanley and Lolo, whose marriage and pregnancy story provide the episode’s central guest account. 3. The episode asks how Linda and her family processed a pregnancy discovered late, an early delivery, and rapidly changing plans. 4. Linda says she initially treated headaches as possible malaria while producing radio voice work and did not know she was pregnant. 5. Her sister Esther urged her for more than a week to take a pregnancy test after Linda reported headaches and possible morning sickness. 6. Linda says she called her husband around 6 a.m. after confirming the pregnancy and then visited a hospital to establish how far along she was. 7. One premium hospital reportedly described the womb as empty and the contents as blood, while giving the couple an estimate of six or seven weeks. 8. Linda visited another hospital on 5 June, where a scan and examination showed she was nearly 20 weeks pregnant. 9. The late discovery left Linda worrying that motherhood would end her acting career because she had expected to keep shooting films. 10. Linda says she had taken ibuprofen with coffee, experienced headaches and swollen legs, and had been working on a film set before learning she was pregnant. 11. Linda’s son was born on August 18th even though the expected arrival was in October. 12. Before the delivery, Linda and her husband argued about whether she should travel earlier rather than remain alone while he was away for 27 days. 13. Linda accepted the earlier travel plan after apologizing, and she says photographs, clothing, and other preparations then aligned around the move. 14. At her first doctor appointment after traveling, Linda says her blood pressure measured 220 over 136 even though she felt she was functioning normally. 15. A doctor later told Linda and Stanley that the baby had to be delivered within an hour because the results were worsening. 16. Linda withdrew to the toilet, cried, and prayed that the blessing would not become the end of her life. 17. Linda connects that crisis to a January prophecy from Esther about hearing a baby’s cry in August and to a private prayer made at a December Thanksgiving service. 18. The recording combines an improvised song-association game, Nigerian English and Pidgin exchanges, laughter, and a serious interview about pregnancy and faith. 19. Expecting parents, couples, and families facing complicated birth decisions. 20. Listeners seeking clinical postpartum guidance rather than personal testimony.

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