Attaining motherhood is the biggest joy in the life of a
woman. She can go to any extend when it comes to the safety and security of her
unborn child. At times pregnant ladies show extra ordinary courage to ensure
the safety of kid in their womb. Yesterday one such story in newspaper touched
my heart.
9 months pregnant women
had to swim for 90 mins in river to reach another village. This lady comes from a very poor
family, both her parents are daily laborers, who could hardly meet both ends
after day’s long struggle. Even the
husband of this pregnant lady is not in a condition to take care of her. Hence
she was staying with her parents, they stay in a village close to the banks of
river krishna.
When this lady entered into her 9th month, she
requested her parents to shift her to hospital but parents ignored due to
financial crunch. They assured her that when the time will come, they will take
her to hospital. “The water level of river will not rise as monsoon this year
may not be good”. But destiny has its own say to this prediction.
It rained heavily and the water level rose beyond
expectation, as a result of which boatmen declined to ferry people from one
side of the river to another. With every passing hour heartbeat of this lady was
increasing and she decided to venture into the river, as staying back was
risky. She will need medical support any time. When she asked her father to
take her across the river, he told her to jump into the river and sail across,
out of frustration. He couldn’t do much because the situation was not in his
control.
Finally she decided to swim the river, her father and 2 more
of her relative ventured into krishna river. They tied few pumpkins as life
guard to ensure she floats in river. In this situation also, she swan half the
way, post that she couldn’t swim any further. She had even consumed water also
as her body was tired. Then one of her relative lifted her and covered the
remaining distance.
After 90 mins they reached another village, villagers saw
them coming and came to their help. They shouted at girl’s father for making
her swim the river in this critical situation. But her father’s reply silenced
them all, “what to do, we don’t have hospital in our village”.
Immediately she was taken to hospital when doctors declared both
mother and baby are fine. All throughout her pregnancy she just had ragi roti
with chutney. Her circumstances were like that. Now she is in hospital, hope
she gets good food there.
I am running out of words to express my feeling towards the
courageous task undertaken by this lady. It was highly risky as anything could
have gone wrong at any point of time. But the courage and determination of the mother
to bring here child to this world, kept her moving.
