Motherhood: A Blessing - Chapter 8

Sorry everyone for a DELAYING this post.... but with Anushka growing its really hard to take time out...

Anyways, since I was the first time Mom, the hospital people told me to take The Labor Preparation Class..... I took their advice and enrolled for the class...... There they told me what is labor, What happens during labor, what should I do during labor, what my partner should do, what are the phases of labor, etc.

Labor is basically the contraction of uterine muscles...... Though during pregnancy uterus does practices labor exercise and few women do feel that they are in labor...... it is called False Labor..... or Braxton and hicks contractions..... it is very normal...... it just that uterus rehearses before the actual labor...... but during the labor the uterus actually pushes the baby...... labor is the time where its work for everybody..... mom, baby, mom's body and obviously family, doctors everybody around us.......

There are various phases of labor:

- Active Labor

- pushing

- delivery of baby

- delivery of placenta

- recovery

The labor starts from the time when a woman starts feeling the contractions till she is recovered( can stand and walk)...... the instructor explained each and every phase very clearly.... i was scared after hearing every thing but i now really wanted the big thing to happen..... it was becoming tiring for me each day and i was getting very impatient..... this last phase was a bit troublesome because now the baby was grown fully..... and it was difficult for me to eat or drink..... even sleeping was difficult..... the back pain and cramps were so bad that i couldnt sleep at all...... now i couldnt wait at all...... i was all angry..... but I couldnt do anything......

to be continued.....

Motherhood: A Blessing - Chapter 7

Hi Readers!!! Sorry for writing the post so late..... Actually my dear darling daughter is growing so fast and now she's started recognizing people..... she now knows that I am her Mom....... If I'm not with her she cries and continuosly checks here and there for me..... So, couldn't find time to write....

Anyways..... I was having a great time being pregnant.... Ramanuj pampered me a lot.... I used to get whatever I wished.... Whatever I used to feel like eating Ramanuj used to bring that for me.... ice creams, choclates, sometimes i wanted something spicy so we used to go to Shaan restaurant and have mutter paneer( which now i dont like that much)..... sometimes i used to cook by myself..... and i was gaining weight like anything...... now when i see my pics at that time i laugh...... But i never used to control myself from eating what the baby wanted..... I just controlled once..... that day we were with our friends at Shaan having dinner and two of my friends were having Non-veg item..... I am a strict vegetarian..... but that day i really liked the smell of it and felt like eating..... But I didnt..... So, while pregnancy one can feel like eating anything..... Its a crazy feeling!!!!

So, by now the baby's kicks were strong...... the doctor gave me a Kick Count Card to keep a record of the kicks of the baby..... It was to count 10 kicks of the baby and note the time from the start of first kick to the end of the tenth kick..... the time sould range anywhere from 10 minutes to 3 hours...... If there werent 10 kicks, that was to be reported to the doctor...... Anushka used to do within 10 minutes..... and those were real strong ones..... Doctor said that it was a good sign and that the baby was healthy....... and now I was counting down to The Big Day of my life......

to be continued......