Ahaan Panday was ‘as small as a rat' as he was born 42 days early, was transported to hospital in a thermocol box: ‘He had a hairline fracture on his leg'

Indian Express

6 days ago

Ahaan Panday has had one of the most successful debuts in Bollywood in recent years with Mohit Suri's Saiyaara. The 27-year-old actor, who is the son Chikki Panday and Deanne Panday, had been active on social media until a couple of years ago and had appeared in many vlogs on sister Alanna Panday's channel. One of Alanna's vlogs had Deanne talking about the birth story of Ahaan as she recalled how he was born 42 days before her due date, and had to be transported in a thermocol cooler to a bigger hospital so he could be kept under observation.
Deanne recalled that she was rushed to the hospital for an emergency C-section. 'Around 42 days before my due date, my water bag started leaking a little bit. And then it happened again, so we woke up dadi, and she called up a doctor, who said, 'Take her to the hospital right now',' she recalled. As the hospital did a sonography, they found out all the fluid from her water bag had leaked and they had to immediately pull the baby out of the womb.
'They did a sonography, all the water had come out by then, and Ahaan was in one corner, curled up. They took me to an emergency C-section, and when they got Ahaan out, he was as small as a rat. They took him away, and I passed out. When I woke up, I asked, 'Where is my child?', and they told me that he'd been taken to the NICU in another hospital. I demanded that they take me there, even though I'd just been stitched up,' Deanne recalled.
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As Deanne was sharing this story, Alanna interrupted and said, 'Mom missed a part. Ahaan was transported in a cooler. A thermocol box! This was back in the day, like 25 years ago. It's such a filmy story'. Deanne said that her mother and mother-in-law rushed Ahaan to Nanavati Hospital as the hospital where she gave birth did not have a NICU. Deanne shared that she was under a lot of medication and passed out soon after giving birth but as soon as she woke up, she demanded to see her child. She was also transported to the bigger hospital and when she finally saw Ahaan, she saw that they had stuck a stick to his leg as he had suffered a hairline fracture. 'At some point, tehy figured that he had a hairline fracture on his small little leg. He was so small, like a rat. His thighs were so thin,' she shared.
Deanne was watching Ahaan from afar when she saw the nurse feeding with a dropper and she immediately asked her to stop. For the next ten days, Deanne stayed in the hospital recovering and Ahaan stayed in the NICU, and every time he had to be fed, Deanne would come down to the NICU in a wheelchair. It was after all of this that he finally came home with his parents.