So coming straight to the point which most people would think..how can I even mention the word bane in pregnancy? ( not the batman one but its original meaning!) Isn't pregnancy suppose to be gods gift to womankind in all its magical glory of the creation of life etc..? To them i would say try convincing a mom to be in her last 6 weeks of pregnancy with pretty much all of her body appendages swollen or getting there and sweating like a marathon runner! What I am trying to say is that the boons are definitely appreciated by us pregnant-kind but one cannot ignore the banes..no sirree! Like I mentioned in my last post there ain't a greater experience than feeling ur baby grow inside you but at the same time what I didn't mention was that I was on bed rest at the same time for 3 whole days. And that means being absolutely adherant to it without my usual round of extra curricular activities which I never really stopped in pregnancy. Not that I was complaining too much. I mean baby and health come first right? So the first day i happily lazed around enjoying the self imposed holiday. Come the second day and it was slightly more difficult to figure out activities to do lying down..I mean how many crappy rom coms and TV can one watch? I did 2 movies and half a series..so I started reading..but by that time my lower back,a most sensitive area in pregnancy was getting painful. Going for a walk ws out of the question so I stuck to pacing around the house. Wait..did I mention that was the hottest October weekend recorded in history? In short, by the time the third bed rest day arrived I was hot, irritated, flustered and in no better shape than when I started my "bed rest"! That innocuous little line I write at the end of my prescriptions to so many patients now took on a whole new meaning with a new sense of empathy and sympathy! Hats off to the moms who are on bed rest for weeks and sometimes months for their lil angels! That after labour has to be the toughest thing we go through for them! Necessary as it is, easy it definitely isnt! As for me..since my share of bed rest was self prescribed I bounded out the 4th day and happily all is well! Ciao till the next epiphany!
Sunday 3 January 2016
The Boon & the Bane of It!
So coming straight to the point which most people would think..how can I even mention the word bane in pregnancy? ( not the batman one but its original meaning!) Isn't pregnancy suppose to be gods gift to womankind in all its magical glory of the creation of life etc..? To them i would say try convincing a mom to be in her last 6 weeks of pregnancy with pretty much all of her body appendages swollen or getting there and sweating like a marathon runner! What I am trying to say is that the boons are definitely appreciated by us pregnant-kind but one cannot ignore the banes..no sirree! Like I mentioned in my last post there ain't a greater experience than feeling ur baby grow inside you but at the same time what I didn't mention was that I was on bed rest at the same time for 3 whole days. And that means being absolutely adherant to it without my usual round of extra curricular activities which I never really stopped in pregnancy. Not that I was complaining too much. I mean baby and health come first right? So the first day i happily lazed around enjoying the self imposed holiday. Come the second day and it was slightly more difficult to figure out activities to do lying down..I mean how many crappy rom coms and TV can one watch? I did 2 movies and half a series..so I started reading..but by that time my lower back,a most sensitive area in pregnancy was getting painful. Going for a walk ws out of the question so I stuck to pacing around the house. Wait..did I mention that was the hottest October weekend recorded in history? In short, by the time the third bed rest day arrived I was hot, irritated, flustered and in no better shape than when I started my "bed rest"! That innocuous little line I write at the end of my prescriptions to so many patients now took on a whole new meaning with a new sense of empathy and sympathy! Hats off to the moms who are on bed rest for weeks and sometimes months for their lil angels! That after labour has to be the toughest thing we go through for them! Necessary as it is, easy it definitely isnt! As for me..since my share of bed rest was self prescribed I bounded out the 4th day and happily all is well! Ciao till the next epiphany!
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