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!