When most women her age were cradling grandchildren, 63-year-old Janet Ajibola was cradling her newborn twins—a moment she had prayed for since her wedding day more than 40 years ago
On October 3, 2025, in a small Lagos maternity centre, Janet delivered identical twin boys naturally—no IVF, no medical intervention, no elaborate procedure. Just persistence, faith and a story that defies everything she had been told about biology and time.
“I delivered twins,” she says with a gentle laugh that carries both wonder and relief. “Not one—two boys.”
A Lifetime of Waiting
Janet, born in December 1962, spent her younger years teaching, later retiring from the Lagos State Ministry of Education before embracing full-time ministry work. Today, she is an evangelist and midwife—helping others bring life into the world even as she privately battled her own long sorrow.
Her marriage will be 41 years in February 2026. Through those decades, pregnancy after pregnancy slipped away. Doctors saw fibroids. Scans repeatedly showed “no foetus.” She went through surgeries in 2009 and 2013. Yet nothing changed.
“I would feel movement,” she recalls. “But the scans always said there was no baby.”
Year after year, someone would test her, pronounce her pregnant, and vanish. Treatments were unfinished. Answers faded. Still, she held on.
Faith That Never Wavered
Janet often says her greatest blessing has been her husband. Soft-spoken, steady, unshakeable.
Even when relatives whispered, when society questioned, when the waiting threatened to crush hope, the couple refused to turn against each other. Their home brimmed with children—relatives, neighbours, church members. Many assumed the kids were theirs. It softened the ache.
And through it all, Janet never let her private longing cloud her ministry.
“When I prayed for other women to conceive, they never knew I was still waiting,” she says. “I held on quietly. I simply believed my time would come.”
The Day Everything Changed
Early this year, another woman tested her and said words Janet had never heard: “You are carrying two.”
Still, she stayed cautious. The stomach wasn’t showing much. The signs weren’t obvious. But on October 3, her long wait ended.
Natural delivery. Two healthy boys. A miracle she still struggles to fully explain.
“God is not bound by the laws of nature,” she says simply. “When He decides it is time, no one can stop Him.”
A Message for Women Still Waiting
For women still praying for children, Janet offers gentle, practical advice:
“Every journey is different. Don’t lose hope. Some delays prepare us for a testimony. If people mock you, hold on. If the enemy tries to discourage you, hold on. God’s timing is perfect.”
After more than 40 years of waiting, this grandmother-aged new mother believes she lived long enough to see her promise fulfilled.
And in her arms, two small boys prove that miracles do not age.
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