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    Baby On Board: An Ordinary Couples's Extraordinary Pregnancy Journey
    Baby On Board: An Ordinary Couples's Extraordinary Pregnancy Journey
    Baby On Board: An Ordinary Couples's Extraordinary Pregnancy Journey
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    Baby On Board: An Ordinary Couples's Extraordinary Pregnancy Journey

    By Sonia Sahijwani Saini

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    About this ebook

    To start with, this is my story.
    For many years I tried to delay and escape from the inevitable.
    For months thereafter, I was persistently persuaded by my near and dear ones.
    Finally, in late 2017, (yes I planned the year and almost the month as well), I finally took the plunge and entered the phase of ‘Motherhood’, albeit, with a lot of anxiety and fears.
    This is the journey of someone who literally suffered from Tokophobia-(fear of childbirth) since she was young but ultimately & contrary to popular perception, it became the biggest and most wonderful challenge of her life.
    I am ordinary girl who had an unusually extraordinary pregnancy.
    How did I achieve it? Was there any guru mantra?
    What special did I do? Or rather,
    What special did I do? Or rather,
    What did I not do?
    For, if someone like me could do it, so can you.
    Read along and enjoy the journey...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOne Point Six Technologies Pvt Ltd
    Release dateAug 9, 2019
    ISBN9789388930840
    Baby On Board: An Ordinary Couples's Extraordinary Pregnancy Journey
    Author

    Sonia Sahijwani Saini

    Sonia Sahijwani Saini is a law graduate from Faculty of Law- Delhi University, currently working as Assistant Manager-Law in a Central Govt PSU under Ministry of Petroleum at Chandigarh. After years of delaying and running away from the inevitable, after some more months of being persistently persuaded by her near and dear ones, she finally prepared herself mentally, emotionally and physically and decided to take the plunge and enter the phase of motherhood; albeit, with a lot of anxiety. She is the mother of her first son, Suhaan who is now one year old. Despite the various challenges it brings her way, currently she is enjoying this new found role and terms it the most wonderful and gratifying phase of her life.She is the author of ‘Yours Legally’, her debut book- a collection of short stories.This is her second book.

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      Baby On Board - Sonia Sahijwani Saini

      1

      The story behind the

      Story

      Date: 11th July 2018

      Day: Wednesday

      Time: 7:00am

      I got ready in my lucky blue dress to be admitted at Fortis Hospital, Mohali for my C-section, which was finally planned a day before after the last ultrasound. Amidst the never ending wait for being called in the O.T(Operation theatre) since there were four other C Sections scheduled for the same day, I tried to divert my mind by chatting with my hubby and few of my close friends, taking selfies, (trust me I am not exaggerating) or watching some old movie on the TV. However, despite so much to keep my mind occupied, each minute then seemed like eternity.

      Sitting in the IPD room waiting for being called for my turn, I looked back at the months gone by and my entire journey.

      2:54pm

      Congratulations, it’s a baby boy.

      I heard a familiar voice say something loud.

      Time of Birth: 2:54 pm.

      The same voice echoed in the room again.

      Amidst the noise, the chaos, the sound of the machines, the hustle bustle of the people, the BP machine on my right, the tears shedding incessantly from my eyes, I heard these words from my gynaecologist cum surgeon who had come just fifteen minutes back to deliver the baby.

      The past fifteen minutes were rather eerie and weird.

      After being injected with epidurals and some random injections, with my lower part absolutely numb and my hands also rested on both sides held firmly by attendants, I absolutely wanted to leave that room right then.

      I felt choked, congested, cramped, and held up, almost like a hostage at one point in time. For the first time I have shared my true feelings that too to the world, and believe me I felt all this and much more.

      Though the only solace was that besides the pain of the epidural which barely lasted few seconds, I was not feeling any pain as such. But the entire scheme of things was not something I had planned or the way I had visualised.

      ‘Man, they just don’t prepare you for this’, was what I kept muttering to myself again and again.

      I recalled my yoga sessions, the breathing techniques, the dance classes, the articles I read, but all seemed in vain. I ended up chanting the hanuman chalisa but nothing came to my rescue and to help alleviate my weird and somewhat helpless situation.

      I was in there for almost 35 minutes and there was no sign of the baby.

      The fact that the doctors and staff were friendly and cooperative was simply not helping.

      ‘What’s taking so long?’ I wondered. Wasn’t an operation supposed to get over sooner than this? I amused.

      I desperately asked for my husband as they had promised he would be allowed inside at the time of delivery but I was told to wait for another five minutes before he would be making his much awaited entry.

      Just then my gynaecologist entered with her usual smile and her first words were;

      Ok Sonia, are you ready? Let’s do this.

      Seeing her and hearing her did ease my nerves a bit. Someone familiar was finally around me, I thought.

      She started with the operation and due to the injections, all I felt was some sort of strong force trying to pull something out of my bulging stomach. All this while, she tried to make some friendly banter and also told me that my baby was breech due to the unusual shape of my uterus.

      She also stated right then that lest I choose to have a baby again in future, it was going to be definitely born via a C Section only. The fact that this conversation was happening while I was undergoing my first C section was rather amusing and funny as well.

      There went my plans for a normal delivery for a toss. Not that I had any plans for another baby anytime in the future.

      (I am done with One.. forever, I told myself again)

      They then spoke some medical jargon which sounded alien to me and by that time my husband and partner in crime finally entered the room. Clad in hospital clothes, he looked unrecognizable and at first but of course I knew it had to be him.

      For reasons unknown to me even till date, I had begun to cry before even my baby was born. I was crying the moment the operation had begun. Though I was answering my surgeon and cooperating with the attendants and had stopped feeling scared after a point of time, but somehow, I kept crying.

      I am sure it happens to a lot of us and it might have happened to some of you reading my book as well.

      Trust me its normal..

      But it all felt surreal, like a dream coming true, like a movie reaching its climax, like the result of an exam being announced.

      I saw my hubby once again and for the first time in the past 45 minutes, breathed a sigh of relief.

      ‘Congratulations, it’s a baby boy’

      ‘Mam it’s a what?’ I retorted almost shouted back as amidst the chaos I was unable to hear what she had spoken properly.

      ‘A baby Boy, Sonia’.

      Within a minute, after cleaning the baby, as is usually advised, they placed the baby, my boy ‘Suhaan’ on my chest. The name was pre-decided by us after exploring lot of options and in case of a girl, it had to be Sia.

      I still cannot forget that moment, that beautiful face, those tiny little confused eyes looking right back at me.

      While I was shedding buckets of tears, Suhaan was unusually quiet at that moment. I looked at my right towards my partner and he was crying too.

      The nine months of struggle, the endless visits to the doctors, hospital, various check ups and ultrasounds, second and third opinions, exercises, reading

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