Teaser :Welcome on Board
Welcome on Board!!!!
Over the past months, a few of my friends and acquaintances have delivered babies. All of them have gone to private hospitals, some large, some small. Nothing out of the ordinary well, what is out of the ordinary isthe fact that almost all of them have delivered their babies by Caesarean.
The Indian medical academic community (see p. 6 of that article) estimates that the rate of C-Sections in private hospitals in India is as high as 45%. A conversation I had with the labor and delivery department of a reputed private hospital here, however, puts that percentage at a mind-boggling 70%.
Wow that’s quite a number…and this is something which all middle income representatives like me will keep noticing over a period of time…reason one : the extra bill that the hosipitals going to charge and of course the medical complication it can bring to your better half.
Why babies are not ready to come out ….i decided to probe and find out the reason and this write up is a journey through the feelings…agonies….fear….love….confusion…and many other feelings of a baby who feels she is freaking secured in her mothers womb…and doesn’t want to come out…..
A short story about babies....recession...IPL....obama ....& masala dosa.....coming soon
About Me
- Amal Muraleedharan
- "Some people told me that writing an autobiography like this, with absolute honesty, keeping nothing to oneself, is like doing a striptease. True, maybe. I, will, firstly, strip myself of clothes and ornaments. Then I intend to peel off this light brown skin and shatter my bones. At last, I hope you will be able to see my homeless, orphan, intensely beautiful soul, deep within the bone, deep down under, beneath even the marrow, in a fourth dimension"-Ente Katha (Kamala Das)
Hey Amal,
ReplyDeleteEven i have been thinking on this point from a while now... However to speak about my own experience, i can say that nowadays Doctors doesnt want to keep their Labour Room occupied for long & hence after spending 2-3 hours... tell you about some medical complication & suggests C - Section... May be i guess the medical profession has also become too materialistic & that may be their profit startegy ;)
Anyways... am waiting for your next story
Waahw... you are on a roll... one thing for sure i can say about this is that... something big is awaiting...just rock...looking forward for your stories and waiting to comment on those!
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