Sunday, May 30, 2010

March 13, 2010


March 13, 2010.... The day, the mother in me was born.. The day, my little angel saw this beautiful world.. Of course Crying :) The day, i can never ever forget in my lifetime!!!!

The day dawned as usual.. there was nothing extraordinary.. As usual i had not slept the whole night.. i was sitting in a bamboo chair the whole night, wondering when the day will break and when will i ever sleep. But i was feeling a little uncomfortable for the past 2 days and i didn't worry about it much!! Around 6 AM i felt like peeing. After that, my discomfort started increasing and i became a little doubtful. I woke up my grandma and told her. She was doubtful whether this was labor or not 'coz i didn't have any back-pain or pain around my stomach!! But since we didn't wanna take chances, we called up our doc and my doc asked me to come to the hospital around 10 AM.

Once we reached the hospital, my doc had advised the duty doc in the hospital to admit me for observation.. The duty doctors also kept telling me that it was false pain!! After some time they gave me a shot of medicine as i was complaining of too much pain, and the pain subsided..!!! Then we were generally sitting in the hospital room.. watching TV (IPL was going on :) )... and i was complaining as to why they have made me sit like this in the hospital room when i don't have any pain absolutely.. i hate hospitals!!! :(

Around 5.00 PM, my doc came to the hospital. I was happily sitting and watching IPL. She asked me skeptically "What madam.. happily sitting and watching TV..??? I heard you had Contractions???" and i was like.. "Yeah doc, i had pain in the morning but after the shot that the nurse gave me, i don't have pain at all :) (with the smiley to the doc)".. And i also thought.. "Okies.. she is gonna tell me that it is a false pain and i am gonna go home n eat the Pudina Rice my grandma had made for me :)".. you know.. pregnancy taste buds ;)

My doc, as cool as ever, checked my so-called contractions and asked me "So prithi... ready to deliver the child today??"... and i was like "WHAT????".. i mean.. i am not even mentally ready for this...I wanted to read about the labor, the pain of delivery etc etc but i had not done it.. can i have a day or two?? I had not even informed my hubby that we will be having the child today.. he was in Bangalore.. what the hell.. i wanted to eat my Pudina rice.. and SLEEP.. Doc.. i havent like slept the whole night...!!! I could not even digest what she told me!! But then, i cant tell my doc all these and i feebly said "Ok.. if you think so".. And the beauty is, my mom was looking at me like "Baby.. can u handle it????"

Only then i started to feel the heat.. my doc gave the instructions to the nurse to get the labor room ready and asked me to get ready for everything.. she reassured that everything will be OK and she will be with me throughout!! I Started getting ready to go to the labor room, my grandma around blessing me and giving me confidence, my mom.. highly emotional.. emotional than me i should say.. slowly went to the labor room with my people around. But once i went into the labor room i got scared seeing that seat/bed, the equipments etc etc.. Then i started PRAYING!!! GOD HELP ME WITH THIS!!!!!!

The nurse induced pain.. the pain started increasing.. very slowly in the beginning.. tolerable.. i started crying out of fear/anxiety/tension/happiness.... dunno what actually.. my mom was with me in the labor room. Then the doc came in.. checked.. then she broke my uterus opening.. simple...!!! Awwwwww... God...!!! It was sooooo damn painful!!!!

My actual LABOR contractions started.. and i just cannot define it.. There really cant be anything more painful in this world than the labor... i had contractions every 5 mins.. every 5 mins there will be a "PAIN" (withing quotes!!) for like 10 mins and go off.. i kept yelling.. yelling and yelling.. my mom could not stand me yelling like that and went outside... my grandma came into the labor room!! She held hands tightly and kept telling "You are perfectly fine.. just keep going...".. ok paati.. agreed.. but keep going is like verrrryyyy difficult!!!

I begged my doc to do a C-section for me... begged her that i cant stand the pain anymore.. but she was very clear in what she was doing.. all she told me was "Just keep quiet and cooperate with me! Do not shout and lose your energy.. keep pushing hard.." Man... I HATE THE WORD PUSH!!!!!!

So i did try cooperating with my doc.. pushing hard.. crying on one side.. yelling on the other... praying on the other... praying that it all could be over soon and i could see my baby very soon...

Then it happened.. at 8.50 PM i gave a looooonnnnggg cry.. which i think the entire hospital could have heard.. but all i heard was the cry of my baby... my little one.. the one who was inside me for like 9 months.. My doc, lifted him upside down and showed me "Here is your child!!" and there were tears in my eyes.. All the pain was gone.. all the discomfort was gone.. There was only one thing that was running in my mind.. "My baby!!!" :)

Thanks to the Almighty for giving me so much strength to handle this.. Thanks to my Doc for helping me to bring my baby into this world.. Thanks to all my family members for supporting me throughout.. and Thanks to my hubby for making me a mother.. :)

So here i am.. My child is already 2 months old and is keeping me busy all day/night!! My little angel :)