On 20th May I was looking forward to celebrate my daughter’s fourth birthday but alas, just 10 days before that, me and my daughter detected to be infected with Covid 19. As a mother of 3+ years toddler, it was most traumatic experience for me was when BMC office called and informed us about health update for me and my daughter. First thing I was asked to isolate me and my daughter in home itself. And that was another part of my struggle to keep my super active baby confined in a 14X12 room. Every time she wanted to go out of the room, my struggle starts. From holding her into my grip and calming her down was not an easy task to have achieved. Now it was my responsibility to take care of myself along with my little baby. The society I was living, no such small baby was found to be positive with Covid-19. That makes me even more worried as probably no one knows how that small child will react to the disease and the medication. What side effect it may cause on her growth and development. These were most traumatic apprehension as a mother I had. After that comes another part of struggle, making my baby consume the most toxic tasted medicine. Every time she saw those bottles in my hand, she starts crying, and along with her I also wanted to weep. But then I had realized during my pregnancy that nature had bestowed extra ordinary power to women. I just gather strength in me, wiping tears of my child, holding her gently into my arm, loving her and patting little bit did the magic. She consumed the medicine. Every time when those medication timing came, this trick works. Night was even more nightmarish. By midnight, when I touched my child, she was raging in high grade fever. Such was the grade of fever that two different combinations of paracetamol could get her relieve. I started her sponging. Such was the fever that even sponging could not make her temperature controlled, the after more than one hour fever started lowered. Again, as a mother I realized the power nature has bestowed in mother, also the bonding of mother and child when my child offered me glass of water (offering water to sick mother- she picked up from one of the rhymes she regularly watches) with an attitude of loving and caring to her mother.
Slowly-slowly, minutes became hour, hour became days and days become week. We both recovered and join our normal life again. Those two-week isolation along with my daughter in one single room, make my faith stronger that bonding of mother and child are extraordinarily special. And with love, care, perseverance one can fight and win biggest battle of life. All bitter experience can return gift someone most beautiful memory for life, one only needs to believe the power nature has confer on us human. If nature could make that tiny invisible corona virus so strong, it certainly has made we human stronger, it is just we need to arouse those power within us. Females are certainly lucky for being able to live most special relation that could have been built around any group of living creature and that is of mother and child. And that special relation helped to fight and win most disquieting incidence of my life and turning it into most beautiful memory.
Experience shared by:
Kamini Singh
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