New mom and dad

I am a new person today...I delivered a beautiful baby girl on Dec 28th,2009 and she has awakened feelings in me that I never knew existed before! Her smile, her cry,her fingers and her eyes evoke such strong and powerful emotions in me that its hard to comprehend what is going on within me!!

I am not a person who'll say that you easily forget the birth pain when you see your baby...The pain that you undergo during delivery belongs to a different dimension. The pain scale is something that cannot be comprehended or understood by the traditional pain scale..I had the fortune of experiencing the pain of a normal labour partly and the pain of a C-Section. I must say that the pain of a C-Section is definitely bearable when compared to that of a normal delivery. Hats off to millions of women who go thru the excruciating pain of childbirth to deliver babies across the world.

I was induced with pain at 6am on Dec 28th and I experienced high intensity contractions immediately that lasted for 6 hrs with no effect!! I was dialated by just 1 cm...At 12pm they put me on pitocin drops, which increased the pain and frequency further..Two hours later I was exhausted and had no strength left in me to go thru a Pelvic examination forget about a normal delivery!! Doc decided to put me thru an emergency C-Sec...As I was being wheeled away to the operation theatre for the first time in my life, I was terrified...Would anything happen to me...I would be a mother soon!!

Anyways gross details apart..I emerged out of the theatre with a beautiful baby girl that I will love for the rest of my life!!

Motherhood is such a different phase of life..Why just motherhood..I would not leave fathers out either....Parenthood is amazing in the sense that suddenly your priorities change. A new life becomes the center of discussion and concern..Nothing else matters anymore - just her life and her happiness matters..My hubby and I have been staunch advocates of carefree lives and our friends and family know how much we have been against starting a family so early..The pregnancy discomforts and the labour pain apart, its a proud feeling that must be experienced...

Sleepless nights,endless diapers, walking in your sleep to the kitchen to prepare a bottle of lactogen to hush a screaming bundle suddenly seems just fine!!

I will be back to post more about my angel growing..I love her fingers the most..She has taken after me mostly...my sweaty palms, my snort, my snore,my anger and my impatience(gross....she even farts like me!! LOL!!) Hubby is alarmed that he has to manage a replica of me which is no easy task!! LOL!! After all, who said that parenting is easy!!???;)