In a society where faith and medicine often collide, broadcaster MzGee is challenging the deeply ingrained belief that undergoing a Caesarean section somehow reflects a lack of faith in God.
Speaking passionately on her Gee O’clock show, she described the unease she feels each time she watches pastors and prophets praying fervently for women to “give birth normally,” as though a surgical delivery were a curse to be avoided.
For her, such prayers expose how spiritual narratives can unintentionally fuel fear and shame among expectant mothers.
MzGee’s concerns stem not from detachment, but from personal experience.
During her own pregnancy, she recalls being told that her baby was in a breech position a moment that sent her spiraling into anxiety. Though she was a woman of prayer, her faith collided with the loud cultural insistence that “normal birth” was the only godly outcome.
“I remember coming home from the hospital feeling broken,” she reflected. “Each check-up where my baby hadn’t turned, I felt I was somehow failing. Because I had heard people preach that real faith meant you’d deliver naturally.”
Her reflection exposes a larger problem on how faith communities sometimes reinforce silence and guilt around women’s medical choices. In her view, the issue is not prayer itself, but the kind of prayer that disregards medical advice and shames alternatives that save lives.
“If it was not a medically accepted practice, doctors wouldn’t recommend it,” she said, pushing back at those who call CS ‘demonic.’ “What is truly demonic is the ignorance that costs mothers and babies their lives.”
For MzGee, faith and medicine need not be enemies. What must end, she insists, is the moral policing of women’s delivery choices under the guise of spirituality. The goal should be safe childbirth and not a demonstration of who believes more.
“Let’s pray for safe deliveries,” she concluded, “not just for vaginal ones. What matters is that both mother and child live.”
