Shirdi Babas protection: Right from pregnancy thru safe delivery and more..

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Babas 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.

 

-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 couldnt 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 Babas prasadam and prayed to

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

and chanted the slokam. Babas 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

Babas temple and Babas 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 babys 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 Babas Miracle. Nothing is impossible in Babas giving and

protection. As we read in Satcharitra, Baba said

many times My Mission is to give Blessings

 

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

and remembering Babas miracle every day for those nine months. None

of our parents or in-laws could come to help us with the delivery. My

wifes 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.

Babas 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 nurses 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

Babas 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 its 9.5 cm open. Doctor

was paged, and in next 30 minutes Padmaja delivered the baby while

listening to the audio of Babas Namam. See Babas miracle here. If my

wife had admitted to the hospital in morning, she would

never have been able to bear the pains. Baba knows whats best. He

kept her at home, and at home we didnt 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 patients records and

doctors 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 Babas grace

my son urinated while the tests were being done and there was a need

to change his clothes. While the nurse was changing Sais (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 Childrens 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 Babas grace Sai

recovered soon. It was Babas 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 dont 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 Babas blessings.

 

Bow to Sri Sai, Peace be to all.