The Boy That Ravished My Heart

I spent a day in the Newborn Room,
just down the hall from the Labour Room.


So I was the one to receive the freshly born babies,
bathe them, wrap them in their mother's saris, and make sure they’re keeping warm, and doing well.


On that day,
I met a boy.
He has dark chocolate eyes and the sweetest little chin.
And he looks great in blue.

Look how handsome! He's winking!

Sometimes newborns look a little funny, their faces can be squished or distorted from birth, but this little guy was so cute.

I got to spend a little more time with this baby boy because his breathing wasn’t so good at the beginning so I had to give some supplementary oxygen.
He evened out and became steady in no time.

Of course he didn’t know how cute he was, but I sure did.

With a shock of black hair and the cutest little smile,
he won the hearts of the other student nurses too.
One of them parted his hair to the side like a proper gent!

We held him a lot, sang to him, and welcomed into the world.


In the newborn room, the fans are turned off,
because babies lose heat very easily.
I looked at the room thermometer and it was 35 'C!
Fully clothed with my thick blue unform and pants in the stagnant Indian heat,
once again, my handy dandy hanky was put to good use to dab my ever-moistening face.

This other little guy was a forceps delivery. He had quite the rough go.

Notice his distressed little hands clasped together!!

As you can see, he has forceps marks/bruises around his eyes from where the steel, unforgiving clamps reached in and pulled him out by force.
Ugh... forceps deliveries are horrific to watch.

I also paid lots of attention to him because at first he was virtually inconsolable.
But, with singing and rocking, and a nice tight embrace,
he settled right down and fell asleep in my arms.



It was a very nice day in the newborn room,
you take on the role of "mother hen", tending to all of your little chicks!