Veteran Ghanaian gospel singer, Mama Esther, has opened up about the painful and deeply spiritual challenges she faced in her early marriage, particularly her long struggle to have children.
She revealed in an interview that after losing her first child, it took her a full decade before she was able to conceive again.
“The struggle came after a dream I had, where I saw someone taking my womb,” Mama Esther recalled. “I had a dream after I lost one of my children. In the dream, I was in labour, and someone was asking me to push my baby out. After I had given birth, I saw the person running away with everything. I then asked her to give me my baby, and she laughed at me, saying that I had taken your womb away. And that I won’t give birth again. But I didn’t take it seriously because I had a baby. She noticed the dream was coming through later.”
The singer said the nightmare eventually became reality, as she endured years of childlessness while facing cruel public speculation about her fertility.
“Some people accused me that after giving birth to two in a span of two years, I went to tamper with my womb. Some even said that I went to change my womb so I can give birth to a lot of children, and that didn’t go in my favour. All these rumours happened after I had lost one of my children. The hard part was that it took me 10 years to conceive. But it took the grace of God for me to have another child after constant prayers,” Mama Esther explained.
Watch the interview below.
