The day I entered into motherhood, my life completely changed. All for the best! The day I entered into motherhood, my life completely changed for the better. Sharing my daughter's birth story on the blog.

Giving birth to a little girl was the most powerful and memorable moment of my life and penning down memories from that day was like reliving every moment of it. Here it goes!

Oct 11th, 2017 – Well fall should have arrived by now, but it still felt so hot and humid. I can’t blame the weather, I guess it was the fact that I was 38 weeks pregnant and felt like a hot oven on the inside. The only thing that I desperately craved and was keeping me cool was the “hot fudge sundae” from my favorite ice-cream shop Anderson’s. By this, the time I had become huge and round with a whopping 190 pounds. I had gained almost 60 pounds!! Crazy right!! but my doctor felt that the weight gain was not alarming and it’s how my body was reacting to the pregnancy. So basically, that’s the heaviest I had ever been in my life! I was breathless most of the time and it was getting harder and harder for me to walk and sit.

By this time, as our doctor had given us the green signal, Mayank and I were extremely excited and waiting for Mishika’s arrival. 38th week passed so did 39th and 40th and I passed my due date of Oct 25th. The waiting period was unbearable, and I was becoming anxious by the clock. During my 41st week scan, post my due date, my doctor looked at the sono and she said, “the baby looks good I think we should wait.” As much as I wanted to see my little girl I was relieved to hear that things were going great on the inside.

We waited for another week and finally on October 30th, I felt slight discomfort and so we rushed to see our doctor as they felt like labor pains. I was super excited, happy, and scared all at the same time.  I was waiting to hear the magical words from my doctor that “you are in labor” whereas what she told me then was something that I had not expected to hear in my pregnancy. She informed us that the baby is unable to move down as her head is unable to engage with my pelvic bone. I was shocked. I was 41 weeks pregnant and the baby was nowhere close to coming out. We then discussed what our options were, and she mentioned the inevitable C-Section. I still remember the disappointment and mix of emotions that I had felt at that moment.

After nine months of waiting and thinking as to how my D-day would look. I had thought over multiple scenarios like we are rushing to the hospital in the middle of the night or my water breaking suddenly but had never thought that we would plan the date and time of my little girl’s arrival into this world. But we had to do what was safe for the baby and so we picked the very next day Oct 31st as little Mishika’s birthday.

I went back home and packed my hospital bag as now I was going to stay in the hospital for 4 complete days. I could not sleep very well that night as I did not know what was going to happen the next day.

Oct 31, 2017 – We arrived at the hospital at 7 in the morning and was taken to the mother and baby unit. Mayank and my mother (so thankful for that) were by my side as the nurses prepped me for the surgery

At 9 AM I was taken into the operation theatre. As I entered the OT, I was surprised to see the room was so white. I had so many lights on me and the room was filled with nurses, doctor and the anesthesiologist. As one nurse held my hand and asked me questions on what I was going to name my baby, I could suddenly feel a pinch in my back. It was the spinal and as it moved into my body I could feel electric currents in my legs. My whole body shaked with those electric currents and I lost complete sensation of my lower part of the body.

After the spinal had kicked in completely they got Mayank inside the room. Mayank and the nurse held my hand and kept talking to me to keep me distracted while the doctor and the nurses performed the surgery. Thanks to the white curtain in front of me I was relieved from not seeing what was happening on the other side. As I could barely feel any sensation I kept asking Mayank “Is she out? Is she out?”. A few minutes later I could feel an extreme pull in my body as someone was pulling my heart out. It happened to me twice and I could hear her cry. “Yayyy!! she is here”, Mayank told me. As I heard these words, I could not stop my tears. I didn’t know why I was so emotional, but I just was. I had waited for this moment for so long and it was finally here!!

Few minutes later, Mayank got Mishika to me and placed her on my chest. It was a feeling of pure joy. This was the biggest and the happiest moment of my life and no words can truly express that.