Anyone who knows me closely knows – I’m childish, and can be mischievous most of the times. As the due date for my baby girl was approaching, I was quite ready for a normal delivery. However, plans changed after my amniotic fluid level decreased to 8fl within a few hours span. My doctor advised for an emergency c-section.
My husband came with a paper on his hand after a meeting with the doctor and said the c-section would be happening in an hour. My heart started racing with anxiety, fear and nervousness 😒. I suddenly felt everything was happening too quick and things were rushing in. My sister-in-law helped me take off my nose rings and ear studs. A woman in her 50s said I had to follow her to a room to SAVE OFF my private part 🙈. ABSOLUTELY UNPREPARED! There I lied as she was saving off my pubic hair AND we had some pretty weird glances at each other. For anyone preparing for a c-section, I’d advise have your husband shave it off before leaving for the hospital. At least you won’t scare the shit out of the medical person with your voluminous hair 😂😂
Half an hour after the pubic hair drama, they rushed me to the operation theatre.
I was injected with anesthesia directly into the sac that surrounds the spinal cord, numbing the lower part of body. Apart from not feeling the lower part of my body, I was pretty conscious, I could hear everything doctors were saying. Even saw the scissors and equipment they had handy for the process. I tried closing my eyes to distract myself, AND let me warn you get scary cold after the anesthesia. 10 mins after they started the c-section, they took-out the baby, and doctor whispered ‘Congrats Ishu You are blessed with a daughter just like an angel’😇.
I saw how they cleaned my baby girl and dressed her. An assistant walked my girl towards me and said ‘here’s you daughter, we’ll take her to your husband’. I really wanted to experience that very first feeling of holding our baby girl together. But then I was still inside the OT and having a surgery.
After I had seen my girl, I felt relaxed and at peace. There was no reason for me to look around. I could have simply keep my eyes shut and bared with the process. BECAUSE I am mostly mischievous, I STARTED LOOKING AROUND AND LOOKED UP AT THE SURGICAL LIGHTS JUST ABOVE ME.
I saw blood, I saw my belly fat and I think I saw my intestines too. I FREAKED OUT, my heart started racing, I suddenly felt out of breath and I thought I would die that very moment. Doctors suddenly said, my blood pressure was increasing rapidly and I had to calm myself down to avoid complexities. Someone held my hand and was trying to calm me down. I was shivering with cold, I could barely keep my mouth closed, I felt as if my teeth would fall off with cold.
My c-section was DONE and they took me to a different room. I had seen a near death experience and I just wanted to be with my husband and feel safe. My doctor walked in after a few minutes and asked If I had other medical conditions then what I had shared with her. I actually never shared that I had ‘mild asthma’ and I take asthalin when I hit the emotional bottomline.
So, PLEASE PLEASE NEVER look up the surgical lights. The anesthesia for c-section injected in your spinal cord only numbs the lower part of the body. You are pretty conscious through out. Just relax, breath in-out until your doctor glues your belly and sends you off to the maternity ward to be with your husband and new-baby.
