What a week. Veer has lived thru more natural disasters than some people. I know I’ve never experienced an earthquake or a hurricane in my life before. So that makes Veer and I even as far as living thru these disasters. I still can’t get over the earthquake part. As soon as the doctor said I was ready to push, the earth shook…. Well it was my bed that shook. I looked around the room and thought it was some sort of a labor exercise they do. Anand also felt the room shaking and he asked the nurse what it was all about. She didn’t notice and after a few minutes it all stopped. It wasn’t confirmed that it was an earthquake until the doctor came back in the room and asked us if we felt it. After that about 2 hours later we welcomed Veer in this world. There were times in those two hours that I felt like giving up. I even told the doctor I can’ do it anymore. I told her I literally can’t push and she laughed at me because I told her I literally couldn’t do it anymore. She encouraged me by telling me I was almost there and she felt his head peeking out. To motivate me, she even showed me. Without getting into graphic details, as soon as I felt his head peek thru, it was a matter of minutes before his whole body was out.
The hospital believes in skin to skin, so as soon as his umbilical cord was cut (thank you, Anand); the nurse put him directly on me. And as soon as they did, all the pain I felt disappeared. Just like that.
Getting used to him was pretty easy, thanks to my mom. She took night duty with me and at times even told me to go to bed and she’ll put him to bed. I did that because I know it’s not going to last for long. The biggest challenge I had was with breastfeeding. I wasn’t producing enough milk at first and when I finally did, he wouldn’t latch on. Initially he did but the poor guy didn’t get enough food, so we were forced to feed him formula out of a bottle. He quickly learnt that bottle is much faster than the boob.
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