Dr Saritha Sivarajan says the arrival of a daughter was the ‘icing on the cake’ after she managed to pull through following years of difficulty to graduate with a degree in orthodontics.
PETALING JAYA: A 35-year old woman who gave birth to her third child barely four hours after receiving a medical degree in orthodontics last Sunday has described the experience as the “icing on the cake” after years of hard work.
Ipoh-born Dr Saritha Sivarajan had felt contractions at home earlier in the day but decided to go ahead and attend Universiti Malaya’s (UM) convocation ceremony here, The Star reported today.
The Ipoh-born dental specialist, who was due to deliver on Tuesday, not only received her degree from pro-chancellor Dr Aishah Ong, but was back at the campus 18 hours later to collect her certificates for best overall performance and for graduating with distinction.
“The past five years have been really difficult and there were occasions I wanted to give up,” she was quoted as saying.
“But I am grateful to God for being able to pull through and my daughter’s birth on the same day of my convocation is the icing on the cake,” she added.
The youngest of five siblings, who is married to aircraft engineer G. Kandasamy, 35, was quoted as saying that she was not expecting her new daughter, who had yet to be named, to arrive sooner than Tuesday.
Dr Saritha recalled that the contractions had become more frequent immediately after she received her scroll during the ceremony at UM’s Dewan Tunku Canselor at about 4.50pm,
“I called my husband who was outside the hall and said we should leave for Seremban immediately,” she was quoted as saying.
The baby was eventually born at a private hospital at 8.18pm.
A short while after the delivery, she got a text message from one of her professors asking if she could attend another ceremony at the university’s dental faculty on the afternoon of the next day.
“I was in pain and plenty of discomfort but decided to attend as a mark of gratitude to all my professors,” she was quoted as saying.
The report added that Dr Saritha, a former student of Ipoh’s Tarcision Convent and SM Anderson, had also given birth to her second child K. Puvilissha in 2013 when she was in her first year pursuing her master’s in orthodontics. -FMT
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