But Dr. Jayashree motivated her to continue what she did and at last the head came out totally. That is when doctors noticed the umbilical cord wrapped around baby’s neck which was the reason for the delay. It was unwrapped and baby came out. I couldn’t control my tears (emotions??) when I saw our little champ. Totally broke down seeing our little darling. Dr said it is a boy and handed over to us immediately. We both were crying holding him inside the pool. 2.32pm it was.
The placenta was out in another 10 minutes. As requested by us the umbilical cord clamping had been delayed for 45 minutes. They let all the precious placenta blood drain to the body. Doctor handed over a scissor post that to cut the cord. Somehow I cut it despite shivering hands.Baby was given some drops and in a few minutes Dr. Jayashree brought him to Aarthy for feeding.
Highlight Post-delivery is Aarthy had few stitches, relaxed for some time in labour room, had a tender coconut and walked back to our room on her own.
So this is our exceptional delivery in Bloom. Had we gone to any other hospital I am sure that we would have left the place only with a C-section. Dr. Jayashree and Dr. Kavitha have made possible this 33 hour long, natural delivery of a baby with the cord wrapped around his neck,without any medication.
We are very thankful to the doctors and nurses who made this possible .
Hypnobirth in Water
I have attended hypnobirth sessions during the 30th week of pregnancy . After the session I have written my birth script and use to practice it daily.90{546178b582b4107a249d87014674d827b097557b53a94b92825166609a84e980} of mu labor was happened exactly what I have written in my birth script .Whenever I felt low or was in pain , my husband used to tell some script with music because of this practice I have shed a drop of tear during my labor. As I am a first time mother and I am a kind of person who fears of everything but hypnobirth session does wonders in my labor . I almost gone to meditative state .I was able to relax my body enough to not to experience the pain associated with childbirth that you see often in movies. Thanks to Jayashree Mam.
WATER BIRTH Sinduja Venkatesh
Life got a new redemption when one fine morning a small plastic strip showed 2 purple lines. Nausea, needles, scans to kicks. You get this magnetic belly winning gratitude and prime priority of loved ones to strangers. Is it a dream or for real I had this sense of swimming in a wet pool, half asleep I found this for real. Did I pee on my bed, woke up shocked, but found the fluid rather different.
OMG! Finally waiting for 9 days past due realized that my D day has come. The time was 5 a.m. in the morning of 20th September. Unlike the usual jitters of labor due to a long wait of when it would start, walking days after my due date, I was enthusiastic felt like tapping my toes for some jazz music, gulped my favorite muffins and arrived at the birthing center. My pain had begun; it mimicked more of those monthly cramp ones. Took the admission and moved to the ward room.
Around 7.30 am the doctor had an internal examination followed by a CTG and told me the baby is doing well. But my contractions are yet to be more vital. I prepared my mind for I knew that am going to have a long day. As advised by the doctor I restricted myself with the bed. By 10 am my contractions started setting in, until 3 pm the contractions were in 15-20 minutes interval for about few seconds slowly fading off to ineffectual ones and none by 5pm. There was more water leakage as my diapers got heavier every hour. Was confused as there was nil reaction in my body after 6 pm. Started walking brisk ones to climbing staircase I was certainly getting bored. To make it interesting we played throw ball! Yeah you’re reading it right, though astonishing throw ball with a big belly, was a good distraction with exercise.
Around 8 pm post the games I wanted to kill my hunger with some lip smacking cheese balls & cheese juicy pizzas & I pursued so. Some pain post dinner peeked in and vanished before I could feel happy about it. Around 9 pm came by angel Dr. Jayashree with my Gynecologist Dr. Kavitha Gautham. On internal examination they got to see the baby is not descended down and that I have miles to go. Under Dr. Jayashree I moved to the labor suite room from the ward room with my enthusiastic husband. My husband chose to decor the room hanging some motivational bulletins around the room. I knew that am physically prepared by the pre-natal exercises, as I marched into the room I thought I should enjoy this, never shed a tear & got myself mentally prepared.
Time was 10 pm. Drills & exercises started, my hubby actively took part too, with my favorite playlist of ARR. We set in this josh and just abided by the activities I was put across. Dr. Jayashree wrapped a long cotton saree across my tummy holding both ends in her hand standing on the bed, made gentle swinging motion, was confused what the doctor was up to but got certainly dazed as my thin pointed belly got into a pot belly. She changed the position of the baby facilitating exit sooner.
The clock strikes 1 am and I realize its 21st. I mumbled within me I should finish the long wait today. My contractions started becoming much regular and intense. I couldn’t bear any more in the land; also I was much tempted to soak myself in the pool. Dr. Jayashree let me in finally , the water was quite hot when I dropped my feet in , I grew skeptical whether I would like this , but when my next contraction set in I decided to stick myself there and not get out. It was soothing and so relieving. My ever romantic husband lit candles around filling the room with aroma of aqua mist. Lights were dimmed. These factors were a big distraction for the cramps. The pain waves visited me though, but I know I could manage better. Dr. Jayashree massaged my abdomen and distracted me more by asking our love story. She always got it right; as I narrated I got engrossed until I completed the story of ours.
Around 2.15 am she wanted me out of the pool. Some food was delivered by Zomato. The pain was horrible but I managed to gulp the food as my husband fed me. Soon after food I dozed off in no time, though the pain waves still hit me. At about 5 am I woke up to see my husband static, eyes closed but hands in motion fanning me. And my angel of the doctor waiting patiently for me, wishing the doctor morning & thanked her for letting me take a nap .At about 7 am the pain was even more horrible I was constantly shuttling between warm showers, flushing water in my belly to lying in bed for rest. The pain titers kept escalating higher & higher. Dr. Jayashree was very much keen to know if my pain is accompanied by an urge to push but apparently I did not have any such feeling.
It was 2 pm afternoon and my Gynecologist dr. Kavitha visited me, doing an internal examination she got to see very little progress, and advised me to go for I.V injection of Drotin and Systoin to quicken the process as it’s already been 33 hours since my sac broke. We were in a jiffy state about it, after a lot of thought we decided to go about with it. After the administration of those injections the pain my contractions were so kinetic, that I could say it was such a blinding excruciating pain. I could never localize where I had the pain, it was like all over my body. Ultimately I got into the real active labor, Dr. Jayashree had been constantly monitoring my baby’s heart beat and she continued to do so. Everything was doing well. I was still in land. Doctor was doing massages and she also had a wooden roller massager handy making strokes in my hand as this would activate the labor point.
At about 6.30pm I finally happened to get the urge to push which the doctor had been asking all day. Doctor wanted me to practice some pushes in land, but the hell of a pain along with some urge of passing a ton amount of stools like feel was haunting me down. I forced doctor to put me in pool as I felt I should take the pain in control while I concentrate on pushing. Time was 7 pm and doctor let me in the pool. Stepping in I decided to finish the battle soon, the pain was much tolerable inside the water, as guided my Dr. Jayashree I was concentrating with the pushing. My initial pushes were loud and more of screams but later I held my breath and just made some mighty pushes. I in the pool was surrounded by Dr. Jayashree, my Gynecologist Dr. Suthanthira Devi, 2 duty doctors, 3 nurses and my tensed husband in front holding a torch. I felt like a cricketer in the court to finish a nail biting Match, remembered M.S.Dhoni (yes am a diehard fan!).
Finally after a lot of thrust my little ones hair showed out, I felt my baby for the first time. I know am close but decided to take a break to analyze. Taking a deep breath I could see some tolerable wave of pain, some big load to push down, and my husband with the torch in front was encouraging me saying he could see little ones hair! Picking up all energy I could I made this one last power packed push to deliver my baby out, like Dhoni’s winning “6” hurrah! Delivered as both head and shoulder came out. The rest of the body was drawn out by Dr. Suthanthira Devi. I saw my baby’s face but my eyes rushed Down to break the surprise of all the 10 months plus 10 days wait, is it a he or she I tried glancing there with a blurry vision. But with a lot of joy there I saw my husband crying “it’s a girl, it’s a girl” My story would have been really long as my labor. Thanks for the patience, it was a rollercoaster ride and I attribute my successful labor to one stalwart of a woman Dr. Jayashree.
