This body is not mine!

This body is not mine!
20 weeks in and finally settling into my pregnancy. Even getting a baby bump and trying as much as possible to flaunt it! Although my hubby says it just looks like I ve eaten too much for a fatty! Which brings me to my woes...what is happening to my body?? Now this question is obviously one that answers itself but being brought up on a steady diet of hot pregger moms with fab bodies and cute bumps that the internet n tabloids throw at us I had automatically assumed that I would be at least a couple of rungs lower down that ladder since i had an extensive pre pregnancy fitness routine comprising yoga gym and healthy eating. So imagine the shock when the boobs just keep getting bigger, my Kurtis keep getting tighter and the bump is not so much of a bump but more of a general fatty area! Have not had a paunch since after school( so proud!) so I  kept imagining my baby bump to come out as a graceful protuberance which was not hidden under layers of fat:/  Although m sure every single patient of mine who would have cribbed abt all of the above  would have been reassured by me reminding her of the wonderful gift at the end of the road secretly I envy those people who actually grow only around their tummies unlike my general fat absorption phenomenon. And m sure this must be a grouse pretty much with everybody who value their fit bodies achieved with daily kick ass workouts and regimes. Not like i dont try mild exercise and yoga but in the end nobody wants a pregnancy complicated by excessive stress.So now I have a new companion along the road down..my body who every day never fails to surprise me by sprouting out in directions I tght I had long lost down the years. What remains to be seen is how far we go! Cheers to all the calorie laden delights awaiting us!

Pregnant and a Superwoman!

It doesn't get more difficult than pregnancy combined with the high adrenaline job of a gynaecologist. When a woman in the throes of labour pain presents to us, it is as though a switch turns off thoughts of everything else but the patient. According to me all gynaecs especially the women in India are the world's resident experts on multi tasking. From attending to the pt to charting her progress to  dealing with waiting opd patients and deciding the menu at home, picking up the kids and then sprinting back for a difficult vacuum delivery they do it all! Now imagine it all with the same doctor but with half her energy reserves and the debilitating nausea of the first trimester! Any instrumental delivery requires at least 10 kg of pulling force to deliver the baby's head along with high levels of adrenaline! Going through that stressful process for every delivery knowing fully well how vulnerable she is to the environmental factors during pregnancy like all other women requires a degree of dedication and bravery that I like to believe is a  rare quality found only in  our gynaecs and that makes them no less than superwoman albiet a pregnant one! Now every non gynaec reading this would argue that every pregnant woman who balances her work and pregnancy should be labelled a superwoman and I am singing paens about gynaecs cz I am partial to them. Which is true! Going through the rigors of my  professional life while pregnant makes finishing every case a herculean task and leaves me feeling that nothing could be more tougher. But I am sure the same is true for every woman grappling pregnancy and work when she finishes that all important PPT , writing that  overdue software code or simply finishes a weeks worth of paperwork on time. Only the wearer of the shoe knows where it pinches and in our case every shoe fits a superwoman in her world! May we always fly high!