Baba’s protection: Right from pregnancy thru safe delivery and more….by Satya Bajjuri, USA

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Baba’s protection: Right from pregnancy thru safe delivery and more…..

 

“If you spread your palms with devotion before Me, I am immediately with you,

day and night. Though I am here bodily, still I know what you do; beyond seven

seas. Go wherever you will, over the wide world. I am with you. My abode is in

your heart and I am within you. Always worship Me, who is seated in your heart,

as well as, in the hearts all beings. Blessed and fortunate, indeed, is he who

knows Me thus.â€

 

-Satcharitra chapter 15. Baba imparted beautiful and important lesson to Mr.

Cholkar in chapter 15.

 

I bow to Shri Sainath and pray for his blessings to share this leela.

 

It was August, 2001. My wife conceived and was due for her first check-up after

8 weeks. We went to the clinic as scheduled and scanning was done. The

Technician broke the news that he couldn’t find the embryo in his scan and

neither the heart beat. We were shocked and earth under my feet started shaking

and the room seemed to be revolving (as shown in the movies) and I kind of

collapsed onto a nearby chair/table. After couple of minutes I recovered and

asked the technician “Is there any possibility or hope?†As I was present in

the scanning room during the scanning, I saw the multiple efforts made by the

technician to find the embryo before breaking the news to us. He felt the

situation was hopeless. Later, a nurse tried to comfort us. I asked the same

question again and again: “Is there any chance?†She told us that there was

no chance and told my wife that in the next few days she would have an abortion

and gave her empty (small) cups to

retain some of it for further test/research. I asked her again “Is there any

hope?†She replied, you can always have “hope†but again said that

abortion can be any time in next couple of days and told us to retain some of

it. I asked her what if abortion does not happen in next one week? She said come

back to us for more tests, but stressed again that abortion will happen in two

or three days.

 

We returned home, were very saddened and kept on praying to Baba. The father of

a friend (who is also my neighbour) aged 68/70 years and a very devout person,

(who also did la ot of research on Ramayan, Mahabharata) was in town. And upon

learning about our test results, he gave us a slokam from Mahabaratha – which

was sung by Draupadi during the Vastra-apaharana episode, begging Krishna to

rush to her rescue. We received the “slokam†as Baba’s prasadam and prayed

to Baba and SaiKrishna. I stood in front of Sai Baba (who is my Krishna) and

chanted the slokam. Baba’s namam audio cassette was played from morning 6 am

to 10 pm continuously everyday and night. Days passed but the abortion did not

occur. The good sign was my wife continued the pregnancy symptoms. These gave us

hope, and went on praying day and night to Baba, literally day and night. My

home was like Baba’s temple and Baba’s songs were played all the time for

next seven days.

 

After one week, we went to the clinic for re-tests. This time during the

scanning, we heard the baby’s heart beat loud and clear. Our joy knew no

bounds. The technician was shocked. It took a few minutes for him to apologize

to us. He said he had never seen this kind of incident in his life. After the

examination the nurse came running to us and apologized and hugged my wife. She

was very happy to know the news, but at the same time she was very apologetic.

It seemed she was very worried that we may file a case or sue her. She hugged my

wife five times during the check-up and walked us to the exit doors when we were

leaving. She said in her 15-20 years of service, she never had seen this kind of

incident. We knew in our hearts that this was Baba’s Miracle. Nothing is

impossible in Baba’s giving and protection. As we read in Satcharitra, Baba

said many times “My Mission is to give Blessingsâ€.

 

Months passed and we were praying sincerely with joy filled hearts, and

remembering Baba’s miracle every day for those nine months. None of our

parents or in-laws could come to help us with the delivery. My wife’s first

delivery was a C-section back in India. She was worried that if this too was

going to be a c-section it would be tough for us to take care the baby if she

had to take bed-rest due to the surgery. At the same time she was also worried

about going through the intense pains of a normal delivery. As we all know,

nothing is in our hands. All we can do is pray to Baba and leave everything to

him. Baba’s songs/namam were played every day and night at home for all those

nine months. We felt our home was a Sai Mandir for those nine months, as Sai

music played all the time, day and night.

 

Nine months passed, on delivery day early morning at 3 am, Padmaja was getting

delivery pains. We went to the hospital to check-in. Surprisingly, after being

admitted, the time-gap between the strokes went from 5 minutes to 10 minutes and

also her body status was not meeting the requirements for admission. So we were

told to go back, and the nurse’s attitude was not at all friendly. We were

really depressed with her attitude, and were sent back home. The distance from

our home to hospital was a 30 minute drive. But see Baba’s miracle. After we

reached home, she got back the delivery-pains. But we hesitated to go to the

hospital as we were concerned that she may be sent back again. We were

continuously in touch with doctor over phone (being Sunday), and at 11am or so

the time-gap between pains went down to 3mins/2mins from 5mins. Finally, we

started for the hospital at 4:30 pm. Padmaja had to control herself a lot in the

car. She was having heavy

pains but she was scared that I may not be able to drive properly if I heard

her screaming. We prayed to Baba on the way that she should be admitted. As soon

as we reached the hospital, a nurse saw her as she was walking to the reception

and rushed her straight to the delivery room without any formal admission

formalities and tests. The nurse checked her in the delivery room and told us

it’s 9.5 cm open. Doctor was paged, and in next 30 minutes Padmaja delivered

the baby while listening to the audio of Baba’s Namam. See Baba’s miracle

here. If my wife had admitted to the hospital in morning, she would never have

been able to bear the pains. Baba knows what’s best. He kept her at home, and

at home we didn’t know the progress, so even though she had severe pains at

home, she bore them thinking this is just the beginning. Baba gave her the

strength to go through the pains. Baba redirected her attention from

delivery-tension to admission-tension.

Even if one observes the timing, we went to the hospital right at the nick of

the time and not an hour early, not an hour later. We reached the hospital at

5:30 pm and were ready for the delivery and were sent straight into the delivery

room. Later I came to know that while we were driving to the hospital, our Baba

(in the form of the Doctor) called the hospital to be ready to receive us. So

when we reached the hospital, they had the patient’s records and doctor’s

details ready. Baba made sure that it was a safe and natural delivery.

 

On the 3rd day of the delivery we were discharged. At the time of discharging

us, the visiting Doctor checked the baby and said everything was fine and we

could leave. Fortunately, by Baba’s grace my son urinated while the tests were

being done and there was a need to change his clothes. While the nurse was

changing Sai’s (my son) clothes, Doctor observed some thing different in his

skin and ordered them to do the tests for Jaundice and told us take the child

for a check-up the following day. We were discharged.

 

Next day, we took him to the clinic and learnt that the Jaundice test results

were 20 (or more). We rushed to the Children’s hospital for emergency as per

the advice, and admitted the baby for the treatment. It was 4th day of delivery

and we are back to stay at the hospital. The mother had to feed the baby every

30 minutes, as that would help the child get rid of Jaundice. It was very hectic

for the two of us, and we were in panic. By midnight the tests showed that the

Jaundice had gone down by one point or two. This was a very good sign as the

trend was expected to continue. We stayed in the hospital for two nights and

then went back home, with equipment (brief-case and blanket) for further

treatment at home. The nurse came home every day for a couple of days to check

on progress. And with Baba’s grace Sai recovered soon. It was Baba’s grace

that my son urinated in the main hospital, which caused doctor to check on

Jaundice other-wise we would

found out about it at a very late stage, as we did not have much experience of

jaundice etc. It would be very tough find out about the disease as we live in an

apartment where you don’t have much light, and there were no older persons at

home to check on such things. Baba helped us to get through our troubles and

protected us at every stage.

 

Baba! Oh our dear lord! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Whenever I see my son,

I remember it’s Baba’s blessings.

 

Bow to Sri Sai, Peace be to all.