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My Pregnancy Journey (Part 4) - Third Trimester

I applied for maternity leave 15 days before my due date. I became busy at work and was delegating my assignments to my team memebers along with training and other support activities, so that my transition would be smooth.

Health wise, I was still doing good, except for back pain and feeling tired pretty quickly. I pretty much started working from home. At the last leg of my pregnancy, corona virus lock down had started. I started having video connect with my doctor and went to the hospital once for a growth scan. By that time baby was weighing around 2.9 Kgs which was pretty good and she was in the correct position for labor and delivery.

Till that time, I was prepared to try for a natural delivery. However after reading up a few horror stories about episiotomy and urine incontinence after delivery, I changed my mind and opted for a c section. Rather than having a cut down below in my perineum, I was willing to have it in my lower abdomen with proper anaesthesia.

I would be writing a separate post on why I had an elective c section in detail. In a nutshell, I was going through my third trimester stuck at home, in the midst of a global pandemic. Sometimes the uncertainity about the future and baby's health during this situation would stress me out, but I fought through it.

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