By Sharmain GraingerNot only can she write lyrics good enough to be put to music, but Leah Ruth Elisa Singh has the amazing ability to listen to a song once, and deliver it almost identically. She also has a special talent for designing and has been directing her exquisite aptitude to the field of cosmetology, even as she embraces plans to delve into garment construction.While her skills may suggest that she is no different from any ordinary, blossoming young lady, a few years earlier many would have thought her achievements would be impossible. You see the 17-year-old singer/cosmetologist is nothing less than a representation of what could happen when you “stick to your beliefs” even in the face of daunting medical predictions.It was exactly this tactic that was utilized by her mother, Dhanmattie Singh,Authentic NFL Jerseys Wholesale, even when medical experts were certain that there was no way Leah would be born alive. Although her birth defied medical expectations, the subsequent deduction was that if she lived past one month she would be mentally challenged.A smiling Dhanmattie and her daughter, LeahThis certainly was not going to be the fate of Leah, at least not if her faith-driven mother had anything to do with it.It was a long hard road to conceiving her lone daughter, and so Dhanmattie was not prepared to have her baby, though very tiny, snatched away because of a few medical forecasts. According to her, it was not only an emotional and at times physical battle for her daughter’s life, but she believes that there were spiritual interferences added to the equation.In fact, Dhanmattie recalls that her life had taken a complicated turn after she left her mother’s home at Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara, to tie the knot.? Her father had years earlier died, and as the eldest of eight siblings,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, she was working to lend support to the family.? However, following her marriage in 1973, she and her husband started cohabiting at an abode in West Ruimveldt,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Georgetown.Dhanmattie would however soon discover that procreation would not be as simple as she had initially thought. It became perhaps the hardest undertaking of her life, which was compounded by thoughts that her marriage wouldn’t survive if she didn’t give birth.Although she would conceive quite easily, she repeatedly suffered miscarriages. In fact, she disclosed that the miscarriages were so many over the first three years of her marriage that she actually lost count.Moreover, Dhanmattie was subjected to numerous visits to several doctors, as her mother-in-law, much like the young couple, was understandably quite anxious for the family to be extended.As destiny would have it, the young wife would be taken to one doctor who would offer some recommendations that would see her not only conceiving, but carrying through a pregnancy to full term. She became the proud mother of a healthy baby boy and was soon after ready and even eager, to give her husband yet another child.But again each new conception for her would be brought to nothingness as miscarriages continued to occur.“I went to all the doctors, even bush doctors, to get help; I did all sort of things…everything that everybody told me to do, but the same thing continued.”Frustration coupled with desperation became features of her life as by this point her husband wasn’t too understanding.“He was telling me he was going to leave me if I don’t make more children,” she recalled.Worrying soon led to depression. In 1989, she embraced Christianity, and it was during that same year that she would seek the help of a popular private doctor to help preserve yet another pregnancy.“The doctor told me he would stitch my womb and put me on bed rest and a whole lot of things he told me to do…and I did them all.”However at an advanced stage of that pregnancy, Dhanmattie would again lose another child under very disturbing circumstances. She remembered going into labour at a privately-operated institution one night and there was no nurse to attend to her until the following morning, by which time the baby was dead.And since her family was cash-strapped at the time, she said that she took her own discharge the same morning without undergoing a thorough medical examination. She would eventually become seriously ill and was rushed to the hospital where it was discovered that remnants of afterbirth was still inside her.“When it came out it was as if I was making a fresh baby, but all I know is if I didn’t accept Jesus as my personal Lord and Saviour, I would not have survived,” Dhanmattie reflected.But her desire to have more children was not daunted. And though she hadn’t the words to aptly explain her experience, Dhanmattie said that she became convinced that she was destined to have another child.“I remembered