I delivered a healthy 3.30kg (over 7 pounds) baby on 21st Nov 2018, a day before I turned 30. I have been writing these diary notes for all my friends & family who had just had a baby or are expecting one soon. Anay our son was delivered by vacuum extraction. Most Indians will remember the 3 Idiots delivery scene. It was something like that just that there were proper lights and I delivered in the comfort of a hospital with my husband-Jayesh at my head along with nurses trying to help me push Anay out. Ah the moment!!!
On 21st my first contraction started at 1 am. As told by the doctors, I kept calm as I knew we have enough time to reach the hospital. It was our first time so we knew, we need not rush to hospital until the contractions were as long as 20 minutes apart. We reached hospital at about 8 am. I was admitted immediately... I was then moved to the delivery room where in i was given the epidural. It really helped. As I write this after almost 1 and half years later, I still have not faced any back pain because of epidural. So, whoever is telling you, there are side effects of epidural, show them this blog... It's really stress relieving, you will love your baby more if not anything else. My own mother had me without epidural and my sister with epidural, and yes she pampers her more than me and you know the obvious reason 😉
Then the final wait started... They did allow my family to visit me inside one by one after some interval. I was born in the same hospital as I was giving birth in so I knew I was in safe and experienced hands. To top it all, as I had attended the antenatal sessions, we knew doctors allow to-be-fathers inside in case of normal delivery in this hospital. Since we conceived, all I wanted to have was a healthy November baby delivered by normal method. Now I had 1 more reason to want a normal delivery, it meant Jayesh could be by my side for our baby's birth... It was all going as planned...
I suddenly felt the urge to poop... I was like, Oh My God! I am tied to these salines and how am I going to make it to the toilet and back before birth!!! I told the nurse, she said, the baby is coming out!!! All hands on deck! Start pushing the baby out lady!!!! Damn I was going to be a mother, and I did not even feel like my baby could be ready to come out. Was I going to be that mother which does not have any maternal instincts? I wondered in that moment. They said you will know when the baby is coming, I for one had no idea, may be I did not read enough articles about giving birth... The next moment I was like, wait wait I can't deliver the baby just yet, Jayesh is still not here!!! how can I deliver without him! I protested, "Bring by husband, I will push then", the nurse must have thought I am crazy... She consoled saying "He will be coming in with the doctor at the end"... Few minutes later, the doctor was informed, baby's head was big so needed to go for suction. This meant baby was going to come early and still no sign of husband. I had always imagined my husband will be there to motivate me to push. Here I was amidst all those experienced nurses and doctors but no husband. Finally he was let in and the final pushing started... About 4 hours after I was admitted, at 12 we had our first born son with us😍! This cute, super loud baby, was taken away from us to keep in a warm bed after cleaning up. I saw Anay for the first time after almost 2 hours. He was the loudest baby of all, said the nurses...
The journey of motherhood began........
