{"id":3440,"date":"2026-08-29T16:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T16:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2026-08-29T16:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T16:35:12","slug":"i-defended-my-masters-project-with-a-two-week-old-baby-woman-shares-her-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/2026\/08\/29\/i-defended-my-masters-project-with-a-two-week-old-baby-woman-shares-her-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"I DEFENDED MY MASTER’S PROJECT WITH A TWO-WEEK-OLD BABY – WOMAN SHARES HER JOURNEY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let me take you back to one of the most challenging seasons of my academic journey.<\/p>\n

I was already pregnant in my second year of my Master’s programme<\/a> when I gave birth. Around that same period, my examination date was fixed.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I missed the first day of my exams because my newborn baby was admitted to the hospital with jaundice. I was exhausted, worried and overwhelmed, but I knew I still had to continue.<\/p>\n

After we returned home, I went back for the remaining papers\u2014with my baby who was barely two weeks old. \ud83d\ude2d<\/p>\n

Imagine sitting in an examination hall with a two-week-old baby<\/p>\n

While writing my papers, he would sometimes cry, and I would have to step outside to breastfeed him before returning to continue my examination.
\nIt wasn’t easy at all.<\/p>\n

But somehow, by the grace of God, I finished my exams.<\/p>\n

Then came the project defence.<\/p>\n

Two weeks after my exams, I had to appear before the panel to defend my project\u2014and yes, my little baby came along with me. \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n

Then came the moment I was called to defend.<\/p>\n

Just as I started, my baby started crying \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude02
\nThe interviewers had to patiently wait while I tried to pacify him before we could continue.
\nEventually, we carried on, but everything had to be rushed because of my little “co-defender.” \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n

Looking back today, I can only say:
\nGLORY BE TO GOD<\/a> \ud83d\ude4c
\nI didn’t have the perfect circumstances. I didn’t have everything figured out. I was a student, a new mother, breastfeeding a newborn, and trying to complete my Master’s degree all at once.
\nBut I made it.
\n\ud83c\udf93\u2764\ufe0f<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sometimes, life doesn’t give you the perfect conditions before you pursue your dreams. You simply do the best you can with what you have and keep moving.<\/p>\n

To every mother trying to pursue a dream while raising children: your journey may look different, but that doesn’t mean your dream is impossible.<\/p>\n

I finished strong. And today, this story reminds me that with God’s grace, we can do much more \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n

Woman Shares Her Journey
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Let me take you back to one of the most challenging seasons of my academic journey. I was already pregnant in my second year of my Master’s programme when I gave birth. Around that same period, my examination date was fixed. Unfortunately, I missed the first day of my exams because my newborn baby was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}