It was Friday afternoon in the last week of August, 2009, Laxmi started feeling something new. The due date was also closer, might be about a week. We were coming back from the Chandler open market at Worcester after buying some fresh peaches and plums. We stopped in a dental clinic at Chandler for a moment. This was the first time she was sure that the labour pain would start soon.
In fact, it started somewhat that night and the contractions became more and more severe from the early Saturday morning. Since our first baby was C-sectioned, she had not had experienced any contractions/ labour pain at the time of the first baby's birth. As we were in our home country at that time and all other family members were around, I was a kind of free or less engaged at that time. But now I was the only person to take care of her. I browsed information about the symptoms of labour pain and started timing the rate of contractions. It was occuring roughly every 10 minutes and the pain lasted for about 30-45 seconds. We waited until the evening of that day. At evening the pain became little harsh and we contacted to the doctor at Umass memorial campus, where she was visiting since last several months. The doctor said , " If the contraction rate increases so that they occur every 3-4 minutes, call me again !". The rate of contractions did not increase so much but the pain was really unbearable ! The night was passed in a tough situation. The next morning, we decided to call the doctor again and explained about the situation. The doctor told us to go to the hospital. We went there early morning of Sunday ! A nurse checked the cervical dilation and found that the dilation was not large enough for normal delivery. After an hour, the nurse again came and checked it for no positive result. Finally, they gave a sheet of paper with instructions and sent us back to our home !
Sunday was a really painful day for ever because of the worsening situation of the contractions. The rate did not improve much but the pain was really severe. The only option left was to wait for Monday afternoon when Laxmi had a regular appointment with her doctor. Each hour is like a month and the whole day was like a year ! Anyway, with the full sleepless night, there was a nice daybreak of Monday. We went to the hospital little earlier than the time of appointment. Unfortunately, we had to wait for an hour to see the doctor on that particular day, which never happened before. Finally the doctor examined her and referred to the maternity section for her admission !
Note: The posting is on progress !
Sunday was a really painful day for ever because of the worsening situation of the contractions. The rate did not improve much but the pain was really severe. The only option left was to wait for Monday afternoon when Laxmi had a regular appointment with her doctor. Each hour is like a month and the whole day was like a year ! Anyway, with the full sleepless night, there was a nice daybreak of Monday. We went to the hospital little earlier than the time of appointment. Unfortunately, we had to wait for an hour to see the doctor on that particular day, which never happened before. Finally the doctor examined her and referred to the maternity section for her admission !
Note: The posting is on progress !
