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Rest after tryst with New Year baby rush
CITY BASED gynaecologists are breathing easy now. Till December 31, most city gynaecologists were flooded with novel requests from parents-to-be: ?Please stretch delivery till the New Year!? ?You may not believe it, but such was the craze for coinciding the birth of their child with the New Year that most people actually wanted us to go for a caesarean section, even when a normal delivery was possible. That?s because some wanted their babies born at the stroke of midnight on December 31,? a doctor said.
CITY BASED gynaecologists are breathing easy now.
Till December 31, most city gynaecologists were flooded with novel requests from parents-to-be: “Please stretch delivery till the New Year!”
“You may not believe it, but such was the craze for coinciding the birth of their child with the New Year that most people actually wanted us to go for a caesarean section, even when a normal delivery was possible. That’s because some wanted their babies born at the stroke of midnight on December 31,” a doctor said.
Still others had come in with ready astrological calculations and thus prodded the doctors to “somehow” arrange for delivery at that auspicious hour.
“Some even had the details up to the last minute when their child should let out the first cry on the earth and were ready to spend freely, if only that could be arranged,” another doctor added.
The ‘me-too’ craze just before the New Year also busted a myth—That most parents still want normal deliveries.
“In fact, our assessment is that parents now are increasingly demanding operation even in those cases where normal deliveries are possible. That’s probably because parents are probably realising the benefits of delivery through operation,” a doctor added.
The benefits according to the doctor were as follows: After a caesarean section, family planning is automatically ascertained since in most cases where the first baby is through operation, “generally” one stops at two! Women are increasingly preferring it since they do not have to undergo the “pain” a normal delivery entails. And yes, a caesarean delivery allows you the option of “playing God” by deciding on the day when one wants one’s child born! What the doctor failed to mention was that they were not complaining either! A delivery through operation also means ‘pecuniary gains’.
“Thankfully, not all doctors acceded to the requests. Had all of them agreed we would have had a sudden spurt in the number of Capricorn babies,” a doctor remarked in a lighter vein.
