THE MOST TOUCHING AND ASTONISHING EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE

I am working as a volunteer at Gede health center. We work on Prevention to mother and child transmission, HIV/AIDS positive people and in dispensing the drugs. Everyday is a new learning, new experience and new ideas new issues and their solutions. But the one experience was very unique that was when I was assisting in the labor room. There was a mother who was about to deliver. She was in labor pain from 7pm of last evening and now it was 9 am in the morning. She was lying on the bed, resting on one side hitting the opposite wall with her on palm. She was unable to speak... shivering. When I hold her head in my arms… her hairs were totally wet with sweat… sweat was dropping from it… she was not suffering from fever but it was the intensity of pain that made her severe sweating. she was pleading but in silent way because she was told not to make the other expecting mothers scared….it was a tough case even the expert nurse was unable to handle the case…. She was worried of delivery…she was in severe pain…we were massaging her feet, her palms and her hairs to divert hr attention from pain…but she was in severe pain even I cant express that in words.. … From last 14 hours… her eyes were widely opened. She was hitting the wall with her palm her other palm was in my hand and she was pressing it very hard. But she was worried to deliver. The nurse used all the injections and techniques but she was unable. At last she called for another doctor, half of the head of the baby was out but the rest of the body was stuck in the womb. I can’t explain her facial expressions which could explain the intensity of the pain. She was unable to push because she was worried and the baby’s head was half outside the body. Then everything went hush, she was told ‘you want to be transferred to another hospital? Will you be able to pay the expenses? Do you want your baby to be born dead? Do you want to press his head between your legs? She suddenly replied No, and then she seemed to forget about the pain and about being alive. The nurse was on her chest, I was pulling her legs and then the doctor succeeded in pulling out the baby. It was such a hard moment; I was feeling pain in my whole body. I really wanted to vomit in this intense situation. My mind was blank and that woman was suffering from extreme pain, she was at the extreme height of pain. The baby was the most beautiful; I haven’t seen such tiny creature before. The baby was so cute it really made me cry. I don’t know these tears were for joy, wonder, pain or gratitude. The baby was saved now but mother to remove placenta, stitches feeding milk and she moved to another bed. It was extreme phases from which she passed. It was about 4pm she was lying on the bed she had not eaten from previous evening, I asked her does the baby’s father knows and where is he? She said he lives in the city, I told him he’ll come after a week. This experience really made me thankful to my mother, to value the creativity of the Almighty and made me realize of the strength of a woman. And I will give the whole credit to Global Exchange programmed that provided me opportunity for all this experience and learning