Devotee's Experience - Baba's protection: Right from pregnancy thru safe delivery and more

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DEVOTEE EXPERIENCE

 

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.”

 

-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 Blessings”.

 

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.

 

Satya Bajjuri, USA

 

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