The biggest news of my life

Trin…trin…trin… a pair of sleepy eyes propped from the plushy blanket on a rainy weather. The alarm clock never wanted to be quiet, and for heaven’s sake who keeps alarm on a Saturday morning, with this question I looked around and to my surprise I did find “the” love of my life watching me with the witty smile. I am married to him for 3 years now and knowing him since forever I can say he has a plan in that smile. He gave me a medical kit and showed me the way to washroom. To give you the context of this event, I had skipped my periods for 13 days now and like any other couple post marriage, carry a medical kit, I am not branding any here though, my husband did buy one.

When I came out of the washroom after performing a chemistry lab test inside all alone. The result with whatever honesty it had 2 dark lines. Now we need to read it again what it means. Post a repeated revision of the instruction, the questioning eyes have turned teary. Like always I am confused not sure what just happened, is this right? Did I do the right testing? Self-doubting is what I am very good at.

Although we, the responsible people for the result, congratulated each other with smiles of course but a jittering nervousness had been budding inside already. Its not that we were not ready, or we cannot handle this but still there was something which was worrying us. And I can say that because I know him, and he knows me more than anyone else in my life.

With the faking smile and actual jumpiness, we went to the hospital. The distance from home to hospital is 2 kilometers but that day it felt far. After tons of pricking and examinations doctor asked us to go for an ultrasound. The queue was long, and I was asked to drink loads of water and wait. Before I forget not to use the washroom until the test is done, as they needed the bladder to be full. This was a new test I had ever done and was lying naïve on the patient bed and after putting some yucky slimy stuff on my tummy she had kept some instrument on it and gazed the desktop monitor. Since I am a software engineer by profession for me that was a mere command prompt which I used only to find the host name of my system.

After clicking couple of screenshots and saving it for the printout of that black screen she enquired if I have come with someone, I mentioned my husband’s name and she immediately called him without a second thought. Once he came in, he gave me a questioning eye which clearly said, what did you do why is she calling me? Did you fight with the doctor? I ignored his numerous questions which I could read in his eyes and signaled him to talk to the doctor.

Doctor made him stand next to me so that we both can be together at one side of the bed, then she unmuted the computer sound which was a random beep sound or more of a running horse sound, I can’t compare it with anything else, we were still confused and about to ask what we are learning here? just then she said, “That’s your baby’s heartbeat”… the golden words! We were speechless looking at that black box screen of that desktop and then to each other’s eyes. She also showed few spots in some circle which, honestly, I could not figure out, and said that’s the baby. She said the baby is of the sesame seed size.

That moment we were no more husband wife, but a pair of parents have started residing in our heart. We didn’t talk the whole way back home but were smiling uncontrollably.

I can’t think of any other news which could have such an impact in my life. It’s been eight years since that day, and every day after that day has been a new experience with new challenges, but I still get goose bump thinking of the day and that news, my first, biggest, best news.

Now that I am a mother, I can approve of the saying which I once read in my assembly as the thought for the day, it said

“Being a mother is learning about the strength you didn’t know you had and dealing with the fears you never knew existed”