Miracle Divine

 

Vulnerable and frail as those butterfly wings was she

Tied into wedlock, to a rigid headed behaving lordly

Apprehensive to the core when she did conceive

Receiving counselling intense against the fears she perceived

Five months with good antenatal care went by in a jiffy

At each antenatal check-up, she got down from the table perplexed and jittery

Beginning of sixth month brought with it painless spotting and bleeding

Resultantly into thoughts of fear and concern she was thrown reeling

It happened at times during sleep and periods of inactivity

Leaving her fearful and doubting the treatment's effectivity

Diagrams and you-tube videos allayed the rattling thoughts

Intense counselling and assurance helped her  in joining the dots

The placenta, a blood reservoir was low lying completely covering the os

This supplier of nutrition and oxygen was responsible solely for all the blood loss

It was a developmental and structural anomaly courtesy mercy divine

That had to be dealt with like an expert and was of concern prime

She prayed incessantly as she was put on strict bedrest

As I joined in to answer her perpetual phone calls to quieten her unrest

It was the thirtieth week when the alarm call came through

Blood started gushing out making my counselling for her sound true

Arrangements were made for her to be shifted swiftly

System was geared up with all the necessary agility

To save time blood had been cross matched in advance

So collaterally donors were rushed for I was not taking any chance

Pale looking weak Preksha was on the operation table within minutes

Apprehensively she looked up for assurance understanding our limits

More than herself she was concerned for the unborn preterm baby

For in it she was seeing her doomed future taking shape alluringly

The scene inside the abdomen made me look up to God all distraught

As blood vessels ran hither and thither and his mercy I sought

The tortuous blood vessels of lower uterine segment were questioning my surgical skills

An arduous job was exploring the upper segment for incision understanding the ills

Unbaffled, decisively the fiery looking uterus was incised with dexterity

The path to deliver the teeny weeny was stylized, me having the propensity

Removing the placenta would mean tearing through the lower segment

Leaving the patient to bleed a decision that I might later repent

I opted to leave the placenta as such after clamping the cord

Expecting autolysis mentioned in the books to set the record

The pediatrician was ready with the team that he led

To counsel those present for the long fight that lay ahead

The baby in the NICU lay like a soldier on the battle field

Nutrition, apnoea and infection formed the primes of the expected deal

The weight of the baby dipped down to nine hundred grams

As everyone continued to pray for the success of the treatment plans

After a months hard work the mother and baby were discharged

Both continued to stay with their relatives nearby keeping up their guards

An exercise for a further three months showed the placenta receding 

Ultrasound confirmed the autolysis without an episode of bleeding

The baby on mothers feed now weighed three kilogrammes

The warrior was now ready to entrance the world with it's charms

This teeny weeny stands on this day six feet tall

Is intelligent and laborious and is his mother's all in all

Mother and baby were saved courtesy a miracle divine

Such showered blessings  of his is what makes our crown shine

DrArchana Tandon