I slept at 4 am after completing a few pending things. Just when my sleep was getting sweet, there was a knock at my bedroom door. It was not something I was prepared for or even anticipating. Sunita’s due date at her last check up was still 28th August and this was just 11th August.
We rushed Sunita to the hospital, her water broke on the way and we were still a few kilometers away from the hospital. Just to remind you, Sunita is just 15yrs old and still weighs only 37 kilos, she and her husband are a part of our Reboot Project http://www.catalystindia.in/whatwedo.aspx?projectid=16&projectname=Reboot. I could constantly hear Sunita’s laments in her own dialect that made them sound even more painful.
We were at the hospital in 25 minutes; thank God it was wee hours which is rare few that are spared by the ruthless traffic of delhi. Sunita was taken in the emergency room and her doctor was called. All we had in our control that we could do was PRAY.
Four hours passed, Sunita was still in labor pain, At 10:30 am Sunita was moved into the labor room. All of us, along with Ricky were anxious and were walking up and down the corridor, so much so that the Director of the hospital laughingly said, “ it seems like a movie scene from bollywood”.
We took Ricky to quickly grab a bite and the moment the canteen served steaming hot maggie, the phone rang, it’s a boy and the exact expression of Ricky’s face was indefinable.
Sunita gave birth to a 2.25 kilos (Almost 5 lbs) fair healthy boy, we call him “Rakshit” which means “the protected one”. He is indeed the one God protected from the place he was conceived till the time he was born and we believe He would continue to do so.
And here comes the most amazing and miraculous part, which in 3 decades of my life I have only heard of; Sunita “walked” home at 6 pm this very same day in contrast to the colossal complications we were imagining in this under age, weak and unplanned pregnancy.
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