May 20th 2013 - The longest day of my life,
Just a couple of hours had passed since i had posted the last post and my wife wakes up and tells me, I think we should leave to the hospital!
It was 4.00 am and we all took bath quickly, got the bags ready, remembered to keep the LifeCell Stem sell kit and drove to CloudNine in the middle of the night. We were the only ones in the Reception area.
My wife was immediately taken to a room where a night duty doctor attended. We waited outside trying to overhear the conversations.
I thought I heard something like 'It's going to come out today'!
And when the doctor came out of the room she said that she came to the hospital at the right time and the cervix had dilated to 2cms.
We then checked in to our rooms. Aptly called 'Luxury Rooms'.
It was 6.00am. The news slowly sinking in. 'It's going to come out today'
The nurses connected this instrument which monitored the babies Heartbeat and also recorded the time interval between the contractions. What was fascinating was that the intensity of the contractions were also measured. So when ever my wife got one we would know a few milli seconds before hand.
The hours went by and her contractions would become mildly more intense. There was a duty doctor who would come check and talk to Dr. Anuradha S on the phone for the next steps.
At around 1.00 pm they decided to break the water and induce.
The contractions had now progressively become more severe.
And at around 2.45 pm everybody got ready to shift my wife to the labour room.
It still hadn't sunk in and felt like a dream.
I always had imagined this scene in my head. Where I'm trying hard to think of things that would make my wife feel confident. I thought if I just stay with her by her side all the time she would like it.
Honestly, I would want to be next to her so that 'I' could be confident and secure.
I had realised long back in my life that I can't let her do anything alone and that I'd always be with her no matter what the circumstances.
So I just stood there with her and passing on the instructions that the doctors told me to my wife.
At this time she was really in pain.
But everybody around were pretty astonished, they didn't expect my wife to actually go through the entire delivery without any painkillers. Yup. No Epidural, No gas, etc.
In my mind she was a True Warrior!
At this time, she was holding my hand so tightly that I felt that she really really wanted me by her side.
Dr. Anuradha was fantastic. A true leader. She entered the Labour room and immediately took over the situation. Confirmed everybody's role and she literally dived into the scene.
The best part was the entire delivery team was familiar to us since we went to the workshops.
Some of them recognised us and that just bumped up our confidence.
At this time, my wife was screaming.
The doctor told her not to waste her energy screaming and instead press her chin against her chest and channel that energy when she pushed. There were people standing a stand and pressing hard at my wife's abdomen to help in pushing the baby.
The 5th major contraction had begin and the Doctor, with a stern voice said 'Shwetha, your baby is ready to come out, you just need to give me one good push' and within seconds a small tiny bundle of joy slid out into Dr.Anuradha's hands.
I had the opportunity to see my baby for the first time.
Even while typing this blog post, I can feel that shiver go through my body.
It was so tiny and was covered in white and red.
They took the baby to another area where the Paediatrician carried out the necessary procedures.
I followed where ever the baby was taken.
Until now I didn't check if it's a boy or a girl.
I asked them if I could take pictures and they said 'ofcourse'. I ran to my camera bag picked both the video camcorder and the camera. I returned to the table where they were still carrying out tests on the baby just when I noticed a small cute little thing waving in the air.
I was a little startled at first and then it slowly sunk in that we actually had a boy! A Boy!
I screamed out to my wife, 'It's boy shweety, can you believe it, it's a boy' from across the labour room.
We were 100% sure that we were going to have a girl and it just turned out completely opposite.
When I went back to my wife, the doctor was already finishing off the entire procedure. There was one very noticeable change was that my wife's bump had vanished and the contractions had stopped.
My wife told me to stay with her and not go away from there.
The room suddenly was empty with just me and my wife. We were still holding hands.
And then one of the nurses came to us and reminded us that the baby is sleeping all alone at the other end of the room.
I ran to him and picked him up. The next 30mins I was all alone with my buddy. I was trying to see if I coud find any features that resembled anybody. Honestly, except for the chin dimple, nothing else.
He was so peaceful in my hands.
I can never forget these moments; when Shwetha saw him for the first time and then our parents' expressions. Really Priceless!
These memories will be close to my heart until I die.
Now, coming to think of it. I find it so funny. We were all teary eyed and screaming with joy. I guess the doctors see such drama everyday.
Well, 'he' had come out into this world and dived deep into our life.
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