1 month of Athi boy!
21 December 2019 It was just like any other day in my pregnancy. Being the due date of delivery, my doctor had advised me to get admitted at the hospital for monitoring. So, after a sumptuous meal loaded with pakathu veetu paal payasam & some mouth-watering vadas made by MIL, we set out to the hospital at about 7.30 PM. Initial examination led to the decision of an emergency operation as the umbilical cord was twisting around the baby from the stomach. In the next half and hour, I was ushered into the OT, and two minutes inside it, I could hear a slow cry. It was the baby. It was finally out, after 10 months of living inside me. When the doctor showed me the baby, in a faint and rather dry voice I uttered, "It's a boy". The OT had Ilayaraja music that being played in the background, which kept me distracted while the doctors were getting done with the other procedures. (They played Raja Raja Chozhan song) Post the operation, I was held under observation for ...