The day the world turned positive

   23/5/2019

   Exactly one year ago. It was 23/5/2018. The most important day of our life. We, especially your mother, had given a lot of examinations, answered some tough questions and now waiting for the results.
   I was the one trying to put a brave face. Holding your mother's hand, trying to boost up her morale in case of some untoward happening.
   She was not in a mood to listen to reason. Her eyes were hooked to the reception table's staff. She was waiting for a positive nod. Anything else and her heart would have shattered to smithereens.
 " मंगेश , ती हो म्हणते आहे. ती positive आहे म्हणते आहे." Her voice was trembling. She was looking at the reception staff, who was smiling and nodding her head. I wanted to be sure. We waited.
              "We are happy to announce that the HCG report of Pooja-Mangesh is positive". 
 The intercom blared these words. The world stood still. We couldn't move. Eyes welled with tears. Realization took time. We had done it. We cried. We hugged each other.Years of efforts have culminated to this moment. We had you. The HCG was positive

    HCG was positive in 2011 too. An unplanned pregnancy. A child I was not sure i wanted. Maybe, it understood. It was not visible in sonography. Doctors ruled it out as biochemical pregnancy.
     Years later, we decided it is time for a child. But that one we lost was holding grudges,maybe. We were not able to conceive, even after trying. We tried changing doctors. Neelima Bapat, Ranna Doshi, Ashok Mulgaonkar, Rajkumar Shah..... We tried every medical treatment in the book. From normal medicines to doing artificial insemination. I had to do just some semen analysis tests. But your mother went through a lot. Taking medicines, taking injections, the innumerable sonographies, the HSG, the hysteroscopy......
      And finally we decided to do just one cycle of IVF before we give up hope altogether. Some research and some window shopping later, we finalised Indira IVF centre. There, we met Dr. Kanika.
The journey had started and it was not an easy one, especially for your mother. The number of tablets was large. She went to school and on her way back went to the hospital to take injections....almost daily. One on the stomach and one on the buttock. It used to hurt, but she was determined. I remember applying Thrombofob ointment on the painful swellings. There were injection poke-marks all over stomach. But she was not concerned. It was you she wanted.
     There were more tests, a volume  enlargement hysteroscopy, a pick-up(on gudi padwa), a transplant (on 9th may). She endured it all, her body in pain, her heart full of hope. She had given answers to all questions life had asked of her. And today was the result.
           "We are happy to announce that the HCG report of Pooja-Mangesh is positive". 
The words still reverberate in our ears. We can never forget that moment. We had you. We finally had you.