It was the day when he came into this world. It was 2 weeks early. But it was a pleasant and easy arrival. That afternoon my wife was complaining about the contraction. In case of the first baby, she never even felt the contraction. We went into the hospital at around 4PM and the hospital did confirm the contractions. However, they were not ready to admit her because she was not dilated enough and there might a long time before she could give birth to baby.
It’s kind of interesting that with every addition of new baby, the fear and the anxiety about the birth of the baby diminishes. Whether it diminishes linearly or exponentially that depends from person to person. We were not that anxious when the hospital told us that we should go back home and wait for the contractions to come in faster and more severe. I think the hospital didn’t keep us because we were only 15 minutes away from the hospital. But when the delivery time is nearer, that 15 minutes would feel like 15 hours!
We came back home and at around 11pm my wife could not bear the contractions anymore and we rushed back to the hospital. This time hospital admitted her and ran the epidural tube as fast as they could. My wife always opted for the epidural and her doctor always recommended it. The myth about epidural bringing bad back pain in the later stage of life has been already proven wrong. But still many women prefer to go through the pain of delivering the baby. May be it’s something they want to experience or they have high tolerance for the pain. But let me tell you one thing: pain or not, you would still love your baby equal.
After the administration of epidural, my wife went to sleep blissfully while the monitors around her kept on doing soft beeps and other noises to make you feel that you are in some futuristic world. I started reading a fiction and before I knew I was fast asleep in that sofa-bed. At around night 1:30AM I felt some commotion in the room and half-opened my eyes to see my wife’s doctor checking my wife’s condition. Not fearing anything, I went back to sleep. I remember in case of the first baby, I could hardly sleep. At around 3:30AM, lot of noise woke me up and I saw my wife already in the stage of pushing out the baby and there are all the required hospital staffs assisting her. Though I felt a little embarrassed, but still I woke up and went near my wife to hold her hand and give her moral and verbal support to push the baby out. My wife was not feeling any contractions because of the epidural and baby was ready to come out. With the help of the doctor and around 5-6 push, the little baby came out to this world around 3:45AM.
It was the most effortless and easy baby delivery I experienced. I mean the first one was easy too, but this one was easier than that.
I was feeling very different. Before the baby was born, I always told my wife that somehow I was not mentally ready on how to divide the love equally between my two kids. But strangely when the second one came into the light, I immediately felt that I didn’t have to divide the love in equal. Instead my love became twice to provide both the kid enough. Parenting is such a strange phenomenon. Holding the baby in my arms and next to my chest brought me such a beautiful feeling that I am completely assured about providing a lots of love to both the kids.
And at that point I realized my family has become a two kids family!
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