not knowing what's in it, chiagozie and ebere refuse the offer.het of a crushed, unlabelled substance instead, and she instructs ebere and chiagozie on when they should be having intercourse and how to take the drugs. 0k. 0k, thank you. ebere will be expected to return in four weeks to see if she might be pregnant. to understand what pushes people to choose this surreal path over more conventional, medically sound solutions, i meet with gynaecologist dr kingsley in enugu, a neighbouring state to anambra. the core problem is the certainty that you go home with a baby. the in vitro fertilisation is there. you can have surrogacy, you can have donor egg. all those things are available. but the problem is the failure rate is high, so people tend to err towards cryptic, those that can afford it. cryptic pregnancy, it's not really for poor people. not only are these want—to—be parents better off, they also tend to be better educated. but the certainty of coming out with a baby is enough for them to ignore what might be behind all of this, or to worry abo