CHAPTER – 1 BIRTH

This happened 18 years ago

At hospital.( in front of the gynecology department )

Nandhini POV -

A random stranger came to me and asked me " how many months ?" without thinking a lot i said

"9months about to be completed" for which she told "oh really, I am due this week"

since my name was called out by the nurse i went inside to meet the doctor.

Once the check up was over I went back home and my mom was asking me about the scan, and I was explaining her "mom everything is fine and baby is in good position, thats what the doctor said" for which she was instructing me with different do's and don'ts .

After all *moms are moms* hearing which my mom signed and said "you will only understand this after giving birth to your girl"

yeah i am going to give birth to an angel, unlike these days after looking into the scan doctors will soon reveal the babies gender

After all the conversation I went to my room to sleep.

Where I saw my elder sister waiting for me sitting with oil and stuffs.

I asked her " didi what are you doing here with oil ?"

Pushpa – " I saw that your legs were swollen. So lets massage your legs"

nand – " if I put it above a pillow the swelling will go off, you need not worry didi!!!!"

*pushpa is my elder sister whos been married for the past 9 years but couldn't conceive. So she takes care my baby with the utmost care *

Pushpa – " nand, I am not doing this for you!! This is for my darling inside you "

Nand – "yeah yeah , I think the only job that I am going to do with your darling is giving birth, you take and go her, I don't want her anyways"

"do not tell maha Lakshmi(goddess in india ) like that " yeah it was my mom who gave the voice from kitchen

"stop with your chaos and go to sleep all 4 of you" my mom shouted ( afterall my mom is scary till date)

"Yeah mom" chorus came , this time its my elder and younger brother who were also inside my room answering my mom.

After everyone went back to their room, my sister alone came with her pillow in hand and came and lied down next to me.

She instructed "if you wanna go to washroom wake me up" "if you feel uncomfortable lying in this position also wake me up i will help you to move to another position"

I just nodded my head and slept.

Suddenly I heard a loud ringing voice " ring ring "

It was during those days when phone was not a common thing to have at home ,but I had one to talk to my husband since I was staying at my moms place for the time being.

"hello"

Sen –" hello, what are you doing "

Nan – " nothing much, just now akka applied oil for leg to reduce swelling so I was chatting with my siblings and" even before i could finish my sentence he asked me

Sen – " swelling is there on the leg?" he asked with concern, i started feeling butterflies for a moment .

nan – " its normal only , did you have food ?"

Sen – " yeah had " "okay take care then if there is something ,just give me a call "

Nan – "mmmm"

He cut the call . it was a very small conversation, but still it made my day.

my sister was listening to our conversation pretending to sleep.

So I went back to sleep after that.

Suddenly in the middle of the night my sister started waking me up "nandhu ma nandhu ma ?" in full panicking mode. i was soo sleepy that i couldnt open my eyes , with sleepy voice i asked her

" what ? what happened ? why are you tensed ?"

"water" " does it pain for you ?"

Nand – " No didi" " and what water ?" i asked in a confused tone

Push – " your water broke "

Oh !! after 5 seconds of silents "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh " I screamed at the top of my lung waking everyone up and hen i got a nice kick in the stomach for shouting from my unborn daughter .

Everyone came inside my room rushing and as they look at me i saw their eyes getting widened.

They took me to the hospital in a hurry since my water broke , all I could do now is give birth, no other option is left.

When I entered the hospital I saw my husband standing there, even before my arrival. i was not having so much patience to be showing any other reaction since all i could think is the pain that i am gonna get.

All he asked asked me was " are you alright? " while i was on the stretcher, with tears in my eyes I just nodded and then they took me to the preparation room

I was asking for my husband constantly , but he never showed himself after that.

All I could remember after that was a silent room with beep beep sound and ticking clock. Which was increasing the level of anxiety in me

The smell of the disinfectant which i hate the most woke me up , when I was faintly awake I was able to hear my sister voice coming and saying " she woke up , hey nand my darling is a girl like I guessed"

Even then I was searching for my husband instead of the newborn.

when I tried moving , he came to hold me and said " don't move" "Nothing your alright " " we have a female baby now with us"

everyday he used to bring food for me and my family, and many of my relatives visited me in the mean time

After few days ( 4 days )of observation I got discharged from the hospital

Only during feeding time I saw the baby, rest of the time my sister will be holding on to her

Even in the middle of the night when my baby cries out of hunger, my sister used to wake me up and made me feed and sat with the baby the rest of the time.

*I don't know how many others can do that for others baby , but she did *

And I am damn sure that I wont be doing the same for her baby.

During the period when I gave birth unfortunately, 3 days later a female gave birth but couldn't lactate( breast feed) so her mother often came to my room and asked for breast milk and since I knew my mother wont allow , without her knowledge I used to give that unknown lady, milk in a cup to feed the new born

Only for 2 days I was able to give because we had to discharge soon from the hospital

we named the baby katheeja

she was really precious in our family because in her father side she is the first female baby , all her cousins were boys and in my side she is the first child .

Since i was in my mothers house for the initial few months after giving birth . So we used to make her lie down and look at her with the utmost care all the time'

My sister only used to feed and take care of her all the time because , she despite wanted to grow the kid as hers

And I didn't refuse because its her sisters baby and she has full rights over it

Days went by and it was already time for her to go to school

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