I am in here!

This little kiddo has started moving around. The movements are gentle and fluttering sensations like water boiling or something tumbling and rolling!

This young one was really active last night when I could make out the maximum movement…and it was fun! I can finally feel my baby…hehehehe….

Look who’s hearing???

I read this beautiful line somewhere-“The moment a child is born, the parents are also born. They never existed before. Individuals existed before who shared their life together but being a parent is absolutely new. When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”



Well adding to this thought a bit more, now that I have completed 18 weeks, my little one can hear and make out my voice. So I am actually not alone in my thoughts any more! Also just advising all to be a bit careful about what you say around me...’cos then you know how little minds are impressionable and they are fast learners too!!!

I have started talking to my baby… telling little things about my routine and my daily life. My mother got me the Bhagvat Gita and told me to read to the baby, although not got around to do that yet…but I like telling it more about what I am doing and how am I feeling at the moment…feel some kind of strange bonding…I dot my conversation’s with little endearing’s and keep talking about all the silly things that I do. Its kind of fun, but need to be careful in public, ‘cos then people may think I am kind of crazy talking away to myself all sorts of nonsense!

I also told me husband to get me these ‘Garabh Sanskar’ CD’s, which left him pretty amused, but I read somewhere that music has a really soothing and calming effect on the child and who wouldn’t want a peaceful kid who sleeps at night and also lets u sleep!

Anyways, now that this baby of mine can hear, I am really enjoying my time, discussing my day with it and it sure is a very pleasurable & amusing experience!

Cutie Baby Stuff!!

I know there is loads of time left, and I have not yet started to show, but my motherly instincts couldn’t resist a peak into this store selling baby cots and other stuff. It was the most adorable sight, these lovely cots decorated in all their glory with lovely printed quilts and hanging ornamental pieces that were so pleasing to the eye. It was just like a princely bed waiting for a little baby to be placed in it.

The beauty of these little possessions is that it adds magic to your baby room making it the most revered place in the world. Gorgeous, tiny & exquisite smelling babies sleeping peacefully in a lovely crib with white net and lace covering them is such a lovable & royal view.

The other collection’s were perfect sets of white and cream bootees & caps done in crochet with little ribbons as bows…just imagining my baby in these warm bootees all cuddly and cute delighted me.

Looking at all the baby stuff around made me want two or three more babies simply for the sheer pleasure and joy of dressing them all up…although a few of my friends and well wishers have warned me of the repercussions of such desires!

I will not be having an exclusive baby room, but have surely thought about all the stuffed toys that I am going to buy and checked out the Johnson & Johnson baby lotion and powder kit that needs to be purchased on immediate priority!

Baby Names!

There is always something exciting & fascinating about thinking about a name for your baby. And invariably one starts doing it from day one, once you get the news of your pregnancy. These days my husband and me are in a deep discussion over the names we would like to keep. And since it’s bound to happen that a husband and wife rarely reach on a consensus on any topic, we are having our share of disputes. The reasons vary from the name is too common name to its so difficult to pronounce or it sounds so weird, to outright it’s a rubbish name.

Since we are Indians and again Hindu’s, therefore mythology, numerology, astrology and any other science that you can think up of is applicable while naming a child, hence we have to consider the Rashi at the time of birth, the akshar at the time of birth, the time at the time of birth and the planetary positions…which makes the whole task quite tedious. Hence the common conclusion that we have been able to reach so far is to select names starting with all alphabets in Hindi and English for both the genders, so, at the final moment we have our favourite names handy. Which itself is a fairly tough task because now, you have to reach a consensus on a favourite name for every alphabet where in you are having atleast 3 to 4 options per alphabet. So anybody who is good in maths, specially permutations and combinations can give you an idea of the name range that we need to shortlist!

Apart from this, we are again having a minor glitch on the logic of naming our child. I would want the name to start with ‘H’ and he would obviously want ‘M’, provided we discount the Rashi thing as of now. That apart, I am quite religiously sentimental and strongly believe in fairly tales, so wish to have a name which means a god or a goddess or can be interpreted as a child blessed by God or some form of a king or a queen/princess. On the other hand, my husband is a hardcore sports person who is toying with the idea of naming our child after a sports man who would be awarded the "man of the match" or win a tournament on the day of the child’s birth! Now, it could be any sport really like a cricket, tennis, hockey or badminton, no issues about it and the player of the day would be honored as we would name our child after him. No offense to anyone, all are great players but what if it’s a tongue twister kind of name of some foreign player or its an international player who wins on the date I deliver, I can’t name my child after a player just because they won the Wimbledon on that day. Although, after I developed a liking for tennis I personally adore Fedrer and think he is an awesome guy and plays like GOD, but still I am not convinced enough to name my son “Roger”!

Since I have been insisting on some kind of king or queen kind of a character, my husband has suggested “Ravaan” or “Kaans”. His justification is they were after all learned people, just their deeds were not justified at that time and according to him I should be open to the idea of making a change and take the initiative of naming our child differently. I am not at all game to this idea, although my mother seems to be supporting him in this nonsense suggestion! Please excuse me; I can still take the sport’s person!

My husband is also worried I may give our child some weird embarrassing nickname and is trying to shortlist a name which cannot be abbreviated any further…but it’s an undue worry because I have already though of a nickname which is soo adorable & cute, but only to my ears!

At the end I have reached the conclusion that thinking up of a suitable name is a tough task which leaves us with flared tempers. No wonder we need to keep thinking for nine months, to get the perfect name!