Post Partum shocks and shock absorbers
Becoming a mother has been quite an unexpected and unpredictable journey. No amount of reading could have prepared me for what I was about to unfold in my body and mind's kingdom. Still in the hospital room, I remember the meditative relief from the excruciating pain once I pushed her out, the slight surprise on knowing that "its a girl" , the moment when the nurses said "Sahil, touch your baby" and how this little one grabbed my fingers and my cry of relief,of gratitude and of joy and when they put her to my breast to take her first feed, I remember it all like yesterday. In my happiness , I complained " Aditya, we have got all blue clothes, what will we do" and the laughter in the room followed by Dr. Mafreed's compliments about my being a soldier- I will wear these things as a batch always. In all the pain I could feel my body still gushing with joy and I cried my first happy tears when I held her in the Induction room for the first time and...