Aadya Diaries - She Turns 3_Mini Blog 2

Sequence 2: 3rd April 2017, 3.30am ish..

We reach the hospital by 3.30am. It is sparsely populated but our minds and hearts are filled to the brim with joy and anticipation. The duty doc takes Mytri in for inspection and 15-20 mts later come back and tell us she’s not yet into labor and ask us to be patient.

We wait... after a while Mytri walks out and joins us in the waiting room. The doc tells us we’ll have to wait. We wait. The morning dawns bright. It’s a Monday and it’s bursting with activity soon. Everyone from work gets in touch and wishes me, friends and family enquire.

The day peters on. None of us have any idea what to do, what to feel. The excitement and the adrenaline reach a peak around noon but Aadya is still sleeping inside her mom ❤️

As the afternoon turns into dusk I tell my parents to go home and that I’ll call them when it’s time. My mom is unmoved. She won’t go home. She can’t wait to hold her grandchild.

Among us, she’s always been the least expressive/emotional but I could see in front of my eyes that she was changing. Aadya was converting the most stoic of us even before birth and it was beautiful to see❤️. 

After 15 hours of waiting we’re all physically and emotionally tired. And I finally convince my parents to go home.

And then begins the 10 hours that I’ll never ever forget in my life. Those 10 hours with Mytri will forever be the foundation on which our married life will flourish for decades to come...

<To be continued>
 
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