S. Padmaja

"I had heard that pregnancy was synonymous with nausea, so when I got pregnant, I naturally expected to feel nauseous. But to my pleasant surprise, I felt no such thing. I in fact felt so ravenously hungry that I could eat a horse. The hunger that came with my pregnancies was different from the kinds of hunger I'd feel otherwise. All I knew was that I had to eat, and boy, did I enjoy that. When I got pregnant the second time, I felt the same kind of hunger. I had not yet missed my period and went to my doctor to find out if I was pregnant. Pregnancy for me has been synonymous with hunger.'' -  

Nisha Mehta

"Now when I think of it I feel embarrassed. When I was delivering my second child, I opted for the epidural anesthesia. But just before getting into the hospital, I'd heard that a man had died in the O.T. because of some anesthesia slip up. I think this was on my mind and coupled with the labour pangs, I quite lost my head. When I was taken to the OT for my caesarean section, I kept yelling at the doctor that the anesthesia was reaching my brain and that I was going to die.  I think it must have behaved so badly because of my pregnant status. The next day my doctor came to see me and asked ``So did the anesthesia go to your head?'' All I could do was answer sheepishly "No'' -