I have been meaning to write about my feeling for a while because for past few months I have been experiencing immense gratefulness towards my own life. I am an expecting mother and almost at the end of my babies gestation period, i am ending the 8th month next week and very soon I will be holding in my hands a creation of my own. It was good ride till now and I am very very thank full for that. my supportive and caring husband has been looking after me like a baby. Every day when i get back home, he is there t hug me ask how i was doing. my conversations with everyone over lunches and phone calls etc have only been about my pregnancy and how I have been feeling. how i have been taking care. my husbands asks me everyday what do I feel like eating , what do i wanna eat. its really a blessing and i am grateful for being able to do this mighty job of creating a human being. My peeps at office are really supportive since the 3rd month when i told few of my office folks they have been very relaxed about work that is assigned to me. i feel special. my friends family have thrown a big baby shower and my cousins and real brother few in to give me surprise. life has been really showing me how lucky i am to have such great friend and family.
The day of delivery.
i was really anxious the 27th of march the whole day , people were calling in , msgin me asking if i had any news. my inlaws family members and so many people anxiously waiting when will the lil one arrive . this was not just to stresfull on me , it was uneasy and making my body so far from the release of oxytocin. my mother inlaw who has been here with from past three weeks since the day of my bed rest (which lead me to take 4 weeks of disability leave 28th feb from work.) has been consistently stressing on the fact that baby should come on the 29th . but it seemed like baby was taking its own sweet time. i had not felt any pains... till now. every one talked about how braxton hicks was very common symptom towards the end of pregnancy. but nah! nothing.
i shared this with shubham and he even stopped mom repeatedly saying 29th its is 29th it is... i was really worried how it will happen and when will it happen ... will the baby delivery be delayed beyond due date? i had always told myself couple of thing when i chanted , one of them was that i wanted everything to be completely natural. i did not want any induction i wanted the baby to decide to come out. and i really wanted it to be coming as 40 weeks were now done. if it would have been 41 weeks the thursday was our doc appointment, and our sweet doctor anna anderson would have discussed the option to induce medically. another prayer i made with myself was that i needed to be strong and bear pain well. i should not get tired.
the night of 27th i had pains... like every 5 min. mom and shubham also packed the bags for the hospital thinking this might be it. but i got up and i walked around and the pain stopped. these pains were massive like 4 on 10 at pain level. but they stopped. they came back inlater part of night but it was shubham big presentation day and i dint tell him the morning. i told him to go ahead and come after if it was okay. but by the time i woke up and it was noon. i dint feel a thing the pains had away again. seems like the pains on 26th and 27th came only when i was resting in the night. may be because the body released oxytocin when its relaxing. on the 28th March, which was my due date :) i was feeling uneasy all day. Shubham was on leave from work. he jst wanted to take off and relax and wait till monday for baby to come . so told shubham to get a pineapple. i have been exerscing on the both ball since forever and may be that helped in positioning of the baby eventually, but it certainly did not dd to any dilation of cervix of labour pains, i dont think the baby had descended any further than the last checkups with the doc. but i guess pineapple did the wonders. i had pine apple all afternoon and slept. in the evening we three decided lets get shubham birthday cake and go to rangoli to buy some sweets. it was the car ride in tesla when it all started. the bumpy ride initiated my contractions. i was feeling one every 10 min every where in cake shop in sweet shop at traffic light though out the tour i kept them coming ... we came back home and started cooking aloo paranthas, and gaurav #mamaji was arriving . he had planned to be here on the due date. he entered and asked me how are you behen ; whats your status? and i was like i am "getting the contraction pains i guess :)" i started getting pains.. while cooking parathas. every 7 to 8 min. we had downloaded an app which tracked the contractions... shubham was on top of it... he was the super husband measuring the contractions..all the time, even mom was looking at me all the time. just how if my parents would hav been there it would have felt. the day was tough for me as i was waiting anxiously for pains to start and everything from eating a pineapple to the car bumpy ride in tesla made it happen. my mother in law and husband would say it had to happen that way as they always wanted the baby to arrive on the 29th. Shubhams birthday Mainak's birthday it was how a sharma baby should be on the 29th!
i just had one parantha did not even have much food. gaurav and shubham relished the aloo parantha and i was just happy that contractions were coming in regularly, i tried sitting, lying down, cooking walking they were there every 8 to 10 min... i told shubham it looks like a readl deal this time they are regularly coming in... but he really emphasized on waiting for 5 -1 -1 . thats when the doctor and the hospital wanted us to come in just like our 101 class metioned. i always imagined shubham being the super husband and reching the hospital and saying 5-1-1 and admitting me :) which i am happy to report thats exactly how it happened. around 1 o clock i told mum gaurav and shubham that i think we need to head to hospital the contactions were happening 6.1.1 and by the time we reach hopistal they might reach 511. they packed bags and gaurav drove the shalu (subaru) to hospital.
we were there :) at el camino real hospital mountain view. and just like a super husband shubham said 5-1-1 and they headed me to the emergency room. the nurse checked the contractions on the meter and they looked like 5.1.1 but my bp was high , the lower bp measured above 95 which made nurse talk to on call doctor of Pamf, doctor White (women doc). nurse cheked my dialation and told me i was 2 cm dilated. she also said usually they would admit a patient when contractions are 5.1.1 and 3 cm dilation and she would have asked me to go walk around the corridors and be 3 cm dilated and then they would admit in normal scenrio but because my bp measured high and i had been to the emergency a month ago for high bp they admitted me right away. few minutes after this discussion as they were about get me ready to move the labour room,i felt like i am peeing in the bed. i told the nurse and they said... my water broke. there was gush of water for which they provided my a a pad. intersting! i though may be because she checked my cervix dilation it pricked somewhere and my water broke. i was continuously leaking ... as they transferred me to the room. it 3 am ... and the aim for me for next three hours was to dilate more. the nurse was to check my dilation around 6 am and tell me if i had progressed. i was moving around with shubham by my side. gauarv and mom were sitting and just waitimg what and when will the baby happen. may be that was more stressfull and i was working our sitting on the ball, doing squats, walking around the corridor , while mom and gaurav rested or catched shut eye in the labour room. shubham was super tired too we were literally up all night, i was in pains and had work to do rest all three were spectators and they were getting more tired that i was... shubham suggestd me to sit down as even i was getting tired. and he catched shut eye by lying down on the floor. 6 am the nurse comes in an told me that my contractions have reduced she thinks its best to give me pitocin. now i was freaking out my husband was sleeping on the floor and i could do endless workout steps but i was asked to rest , and that rbought my contractions down and now they want to artificially induce me, no no no . i was go all natural (excpet ofcourse epidural.)
The day of delivery.
i was really anxious the 27th of march the whole day , people were calling in , msgin me asking if i had any news. my inlaws family members and so many people anxiously waiting when will the lil one arrive . this was not just to stresfull on me , it was uneasy and making my body so far from the release of oxytocin. my mother inlaw who has been here with from past three weeks since the day of my bed rest (which lead me to take 4 weeks of disability leave 28th feb from work.) has been consistently stressing on the fact that baby should come on the 29th . but it seemed like baby was taking its own sweet time. i had not felt any pains... till now. every one talked about how braxton hicks was very common symptom towards the end of pregnancy. but nah! nothing.
i shared this with shubham and he even stopped mom repeatedly saying 29th its is 29th it is... i was really worried how it will happen and when will it happen ... will the baby delivery be delayed beyond due date? i had always told myself couple of thing when i chanted , one of them was that i wanted everything to be completely natural. i did not want any induction i wanted the baby to decide to come out. and i really wanted it to be coming as 40 weeks were now done. if it would have been 41 weeks the thursday was our doc appointment, and our sweet doctor anna anderson would have discussed the option to induce medically. another prayer i made with myself was that i needed to be strong and bear pain well. i should not get tired.
the night of 27th i had pains... like every 5 min. mom and shubham also packed the bags for the hospital thinking this might be it. but i got up and i walked around and the pain stopped. these pains were massive like 4 on 10 at pain level. but they stopped. they came back inlater part of night but it was shubham big presentation day and i dint tell him the morning. i told him to go ahead and come after if it was okay. but by the time i woke up and it was noon. i dint feel a thing the pains had away again. seems like the pains on 26th and 27th came only when i was resting in the night. may be because the body released oxytocin when its relaxing. on the 28th March, which was my due date :) i was feeling uneasy all day. Shubham was on leave from work. he jst wanted to take off and relax and wait till monday for baby to come . so told shubham to get a pineapple. i have been exerscing on the both ball since forever and may be that helped in positioning of the baby eventually, but it certainly did not dd to any dilation of cervix of labour pains, i dont think the baby had descended any further than the last checkups with the doc. but i guess pineapple did the wonders. i had pine apple all afternoon and slept. in the evening we three decided lets get shubham birthday cake and go to rangoli to buy some sweets. it was the car ride in tesla when it all started. the bumpy ride initiated my contractions. i was feeling one every 10 min every where in cake shop in sweet shop at traffic light though out the tour i kept them coming ... we came back home and started cooking aloo paranthas, and gaurav #mamaji was arriving . he had planned to be here on the due date. he entered and asked me how are you behen ; whats your status? and i was like i am "getting the contraction pains i guess :)" i started getting pains.. while cooking parathas. every 7 to 8 min. we had downloaded an app which tracked the contractions... shubham was on top of it... he was the super husband measuring the contractions..all the time, even mom was looking at me all the time. just how if my parents would hav been there it would have felt. the day was tough for me as i was waiting anxiously for pains to start and everything from eating a pineapple to the car bumpy ride in tesla made it happen. my mother in law and husband would say it had to happen that way as they always wanted the baby to arrive on the 29th. Shubhams birthday Mainak's birthday it was how a sharma baby should be on the 29th!
i just had one parantha did not even have much food. gaurav and shubham relished the aloo parantha and i was just happy that contractions were coming in regularly, i tried sitting, lying down, cooking walking they were there every 8 to 10 min... i told shubham it looks like a readl deal this time they are regularly coming in... but he really emphasized on waiting for 5 -1 -1 . thats when the doctor and the hospital wanted us to come in just like our 101 class metioned. i always imagined shubham being the super husband and reching the hospital and saying 5-1-1 and admitting me :) which i am happy to report thats exactly how it happened. around 1 o clock i told mum gaurav and shubham that i think we need to head to hospital the contactions were happening 6.1.1 and by the time we reach hopistal they might reach 511. they packed bags and gaurav drove the shalu (subaru) to hospital.
we were there :) at el camino real hospital mountain view. and just like a super husband shubham said 5-1-1 and they headed me to the emergency room. the nurse checked the contractions on the meter and they looked like 5.1.1 but my bp was high , the lower bp measured above 95 which made nurse talk to on call doctor of Pamf, doctor White (women doc). nurse cheked my dialation and told me i was 2 cm dilated. she also said usually they would admit a patient when contractions are 5.1.1 and 3 cm dilation and she would have asked me to go walk around the corridors and be 3 cm dilated and then they would admit in normal scenrio but because my bp measured high and i had been to the emergency a month ago for high bp they admitted me right away. few minutes after this discussion as they were about get me ready to move the labour room,i felt like i am peeing in the bed. i told the nurse and they said... my water broke. there was gush of water for which they provided my a a pad. intersting! i though may be because she checked my cervix dilation it pricked somewhere and my water broke. i was continuously leaking ... as they transferred me to the room. it 3 am ... and the aim for me for next three hours was to dilate more. the nurse was to check my dilation around 6 am and tell me if i had progressed. i was moving around with shubham by my side. gauarv and mom were sitting and just waitimg what and when will the baby happen. may be that was more stressfull and i was working our sitting on the ball, doing squats, walking around the corridor , while mom and gaurav rested or catched shut eye in the labour room. shubham was super tired too we were literally up all night, i was in pains and had work to do rest all three were spectators and they were getting more tired that i was... shubham suggestd me to sit down as even i was getting tired. and he catched shut eye by lying down on the floor. 6 am the nurse comes in an told me that my contractions have reduced she thinks its best to give me pitocin. now i was freaking out my husband was sleeping on the floor and i could do endless workout steps but i was asked to rest , and that rbought my contractions down and now they want to artificially induce me, no no no . i was go all natural (excpet ofcourse epidural.)
