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Shall He who brings to birth not cause delivery?

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 " A woman's breakthrough in labour often comes when the pain is at the most excruciating. When she can no longer push." (Excerpt from the sermon: When a Matter is Beyond you by Pastor Dapo Adeniyi on YouTube). While mulling over these animated words of faith, I recall my second son's delivery episode. On my due date, after experiencing  the bloody show early that morning, I started having contractions afterwards but I couldn't stay at the first hospital where I registered due to their sloppy medical procedure and this compelled my mother in law to hurriedly travel from Sagamu to the hospital in Lagos. Early the next day, I was transferred to another hospital. The new doctor confidently broke the water bag and kept me under observation awaiting regular contractions. Unlike my first son's delivery, this time I couldn't try reading because I didn't pack books into the bag. Hmm... learned a hard lesson from the first, I found my books scattered under the ...