Yemisi Sophie Odusanya, popularly known as Sisi Yemmie, a beloved Nigerian food blogger, has joyfully welcomed a set of twins.
In a heartfelt YouTube video, she shared her unexpected journey of being pregnant with twins, revealing that she was not planning to have more children when she discovered her pregnancy.
Reflecting on her surprise, Sisi Yemmie expressed her disbelief, saying, “When I think about the fact that I’m now a mom of five, it’s so shocking to me. If you told Yemisi of two years ago that she was going to have more babies, I would have said you were a liar. If you told me I was going to give birth to twins, I would have said ‘You’re a liar,’ because I don’t know how that happened.”
Sisi Yemmie described how the unexpected news impacted her emotionally and mentally.
“Sometimes when a thing like this happens to you, it can cause you to retreat and I think that was what happened to me. I just could not function like normal because I was in a different headspace,” she said.
Despite undergoing regular scans confirming the twin pregnancy, Sisi Yemmie admitted that she did not fully grasp the reality until the birth of her twins.
“I didn’t think they were real until I saw them, even as I was doing scans and they were saying ‘They’re two inside.’ It was hard to comprehend,” she said.
Adjusting to her new life as a mother of five has been a significant transition for her family.
“It’s been a journey trying to adjust the family. We are a family of seven now. That’s a lot. When I go out some people are so confused. They are like ‘Whose babies are these?’ A lot of my friends and even family members didn’t know that I was pregnant. That was how much keeping it to myself that I did,” she said.
