The Ndlovu’s who are a notorious married young couple in South Africa made up of Stephanie and Hungani Ndlovu, share their painful experience of having a miscarriage.
In the most recent episode of The Ndlovu’s Uncut, the young couple talked about their premature delivery. The couple uncovered that they found out they were pregnant in July 2020. However, their world came crashing down when they lost the baby.
Towards the start of the video, Stephanie Ndlovu takes a pregnancy test and it had come back positive. She had set up a hidden camera so she could surprise Hungani Ndlovu.
A very anxious but visibly happy moment for Stephanie. She placed the pregnancy test on top of the bed and Hungani’s reaction when seeing it, was rather priceless.
“It was a lot of emotions all at one go, it was an overwhelming feeling,” said Hungani.
The couple explained that before they could go to the doctor for a check-up, they decided to call their parents and siblings to let them know of the news. Hungani’s sister was also pregnant around the same time as they were.
The Ndlovu’s had their first check-up at 8 weeks and it was then when they found out that they had a miscarriage. Stephanie said she could not remember the doctor’s words correctly because she was overly excited at being pregnant.
“She did the scan and said ‘I’m sorry there’s no embryo.’ It was then when she had been diagnosed and told that it was a blasted ovum.
This is explained as an embryo that does not develop or stops developing during early pregnancy.
Stephanie’s response to the news was of a person who just wanted to keep it moving she said. This is said to be her coping mechanism in life.
“My coping mechanism to any trauma is to just switch off. Having done this procedure was more traumatic to me, than finding out about the miscarriage,” she explained.
Stephanie said the entire procedure was extremely difficult and could never wish it on her worst enemy.
Hungani also said that this experience was traumatic for him, especially because he had to witness his wife go through such a painful experience.
“I just felt like I was useless.”
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In light of the video, Hungani and Stephanie said that they both wanted to share the video many times, but only 2 years later, they gained the courage to do so.
“We had a miscarriage. This was a story we wanted to tell so many times, not for views or ratings or anything but because so many women and couples go through miscarriages and it can often feel very lonely because we don’t talk about it enough, it doesn’t matter what stage of pregnancy it may have been, the loss is still felt and deeply so. Our hearts are with all those who have experienced any loss of pregnancy. All our love”