Dia Mirza recalls her ‘complicated delivery’, son Avyaan weighed 810 gms at birth: ‘I said save my child, could not hold him until he was 2.5 kgs’

Dia Mirza shared that she “developed a very acute bacterial infection” and at the end of her sixth month of pregnancy, “we discovered my placenta was hemorrhaging and that was my body was going into sepsis, and if the baby was not pulled out, neither of us would have been saved. It was quite scary.” She recalled that they had to make decisions in a matter of seconds and at this point, her gynecologist told her that “this is the best thing for your child.” When reminded that it was perhaps the best thing for her as well, Dia said, “I was the least of my priorities. I said, ‘Save my kid’ because I so wanted this child.”

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As soon as her son was born weighing 810 grams, he was taken to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). After 48 hours, the doctors discovered that the bacteria in her was life-threatening. “I was on IV antibiotics for 21 days and Avyaan had to go through life saving surgery 36 hours after he was born,” Dia shared as she explained that her son had a perforation in his intestine when he was born. The actor shared that since this was in the middle of the pandemic, she was only allowed to visit her son in the NICU twice a week. “I could not hold my child till he was 2.5 kgs,” she shared. Dia recalled that she brought her son home for 20 days and had to take him for another surgery when he was 3.5 kgs.

When asked how she gathered the strength to go through all of this with her son, Dia shared, “Strength… I think it comes from… Because I loved him so much and I wanted him so much. I didn’t, for a second, believe that he would leave me. And I had implicit faith in the universe that if I got him after so many years, after so many prayers, then he won’t leave me. And I tapped into every prayer I had access to. I remember listening to Mahamrityunjaya Mantra on repeat, praying to every master there is to protect him and keep him safe. I really think there is an energy that transfers… Avyaan gave me indescribable strength. He just did. I didn’t feel fear for a fraction of a second through that entire period. I never once felt that something bad could happen to him. I was like, whatever it is, we are going to get through it, we will be fine. I still feel like that.”

Dia’s son Avyaan recently celebrated his fourth birthday.