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After hearing what the doctor said about impending delivery, we couldn’t sleep whole night thinking it might just be ‘the time’ … Next morning, first thing we wanted was an ultrasound… the radiologist also echoed what the gynae had told us, “at 36 weeks, the baby is showing 38 weeks… you can expect it anytime in the coming week”…

Our only fear was that the baby is full term or not, and the radiologist, much to our relief, told us that baby is hale and hearty and is all set to come out… though his birth weight was just 2.7 kg (we expected anything above 3 kg!)

All I prayed was that it should stay in the womb for another 10 days so that it would put on another 300-400 gms. But who has to come, has to come!

2 days later, on 1st of july, I had mild contractions (rather discomfort) at night. As the Dr had guided me about the pain, that it’s not continuous, but intermittent, I knew that “I was in labour” !!!! Another sleepless night (though the pain wasn’t bothering me that much, yet the thought of getting into labour kept me awake whole night…)

Next morning, 2nd of  July, we straight went to the doctor at 8.30 in the morning… She once again checked me for dilation; which was just 2 cm (required is 10 cm for delivering the baby!) She still asked me to get admitted and instructed the midwife to start the drip with oxytocin to facilitate further dilation…

Now the pains started to bother me and it would come in every 5 minutes and last for 1 min…. the intensity and frequency both started increasing….

All through those 9 months, my biggest apprehension was about the ‘D-day’, the Labour Day…. when will it happen, how will it happen, how shall I get to know that its time, will it be a normal delivery or a c-section, how hard the pain would be,  will I be able to sail through the whole experience of delivering the baby or will succumb to the pain ….huhhh…..

Amidst all these apprehensions, I went for my prenatal check-up at 36 weeks. My gynae did a routine checking to ensure that the baby is doing well. Then she told me that its time for an internal check-up also since its the onset of 9th month. ‘Internal check-up’ is normally done to check the status of cervix (is it flexible enough to facilitate child-birth), uterine opening, OS (whether it is open or not) and position of the baby (how much has it travelled down the birth canal so far).

The moment Dr started to do the check-up, half-way through, she screamed with excitement, “The head is here! baby has dropped perfectly into the canal! it’s so low ! It’s been ages to have seen such a perfect position of the baby! its gonna be a normal delivery for sure and that too with minimum pain!!!!! ”

Ahhh!!!

My husband joined the excitement and declared that today we’re gonna have a party! but somewhere I was still nervous, though not as scared as I was earlier… Dr asked me to get the final ultrasound done as soon as possible because the baby had already travelled the distance and is “Almost ready to be born” !!!!

We came back home a little relieved and more anxious about the time which was still 1 month away, but now seems knocking at the door….