Simple checklist for Hospital Delivery Bag
A properly packed Hospital Bag ensures a mother's hospital stay in smooth, easy and feels less uncomfortable. But most people don't know what to pack in a hospital delivery bag.
I don't think anybody can ever understand the pain of waiting to conceive, waiting to feel that kick, waiting to be a mother, waiting to bring visible life into the world except a woman who is going through that pain.
It is not an easy journey. As days turn to months and months to years, they keep losing hope and people's whisper keep increasing.
The whisper moves from the jealous words of distance outsiders to the whipping shouts of insiders.
The verbal, mental,emotional and even sometimes physical abuse from siblings, friends, parents, in-laws, neighbors, colleagues and most painful, your spouse.
Even when everything in life is moving forward, they always feel like something is missing. Even when they try to forget the pain of what they can't have, the society and the world at large won't let them forget.
The constant comparison, everything they have ever achieved pales at the fact that they haven't bore a child.
The pain and pressure often time pushes them to become desperate to find solutions. No patient is as willing to take any risk, physically and financially like a couple trying to find the solution to their infertility and give birth to their child.
As a result, they are open to manipulations and are taken advantage of from different people ranging from medical practitioners to church leaders down to their friends and family.
People who are waiting to have their first child go through a lot. Some people have not gotten pregnant at all even when they are told both spouses are medically sound, some have had countless miscarriages, some have not been able to treat a recurrent medical problem hindering conception.
Do not try to water down their pain or say they are too desperate because they clamour for a prize you feel is not worthy of being a prize while dwelling in a pain you can never understand unless you are exactly in that position.
When they decide to go for Medical options like IVF, do not try to water it down. IVF is not an easy process. It's as difficult as any other pregnancy route and is even more delicate and requires more care.
Nobody would choose a difficult route if the easy route is working.
Learn to treat people who are waiting with love and when they choose a route different from what you see as "normal" (IVF) support them, do not see it as a means to drop veiled insult.
A child is a child, IVF or no IVF.
