The Last post that I published was in July 2007 around which time I discovered that I was pregnant and I got so wrapped in the whole process of carrying and then delivering the baby that I did not find any time to do much else. To be precise, I found out that I was carrying in the August of 2007. We had been trying for a baby for many years and this news was a great news for us.
But there were some complications and we found out that the baby was not growing as much and as fast as it should and we were advised by the doctor in Trivandrum to terminate the pregnancy. But we were not ready for this. After all we had waited for 6 years for this. We got a second opinion from the doctor who was treating me in Bangalore and she advised us against a termination and asked us to visit her. We flew down to Bangalore immediately and after some tests and scans she said it was not necessary to terminate the pregnancy. She scheduled a series of medicines and injections and regular scans and at the end of it she said that the baby was now doing fine and growing at a normal rate. But I had to be very very careful as it was a high-risk pregnancy due to the fact that I was above 30 and also a diabetic.
The next seven months were the months that I will never forget in my life......a period which was exciting and happy as every day we were learning something new about our baby and I could feel the child growing inside me and sad as I lost my father a month before I delivered the baby. But no amount of sadness could reduce the feeling of joy and completeness that I experienced on March 21st, 2008, when I held my little baby in my hands for the first time. It was THE most beautiful experience of my life...... of course, I was sad that my father was not there to see his first grand child but the sadness was over shadowed by the experience of holding my own little baby. She was so small and tiny and looked so so cute....... and at that moment, all the anxieties, all the worries, all the pain, all those years of waiting, all those food restrictions, all those medicines and injections and all those days of staying indoors and not being able to travel too much suddenly seemed worth it. Looking at my little baby I knew that this was the moment in my life that I would cherish forever.
