Our angel & life update
On 26th February 8.44pm our angel took her first breath.
This marked the end of a very eventful, challenging & interesting 9 months in our lives and is the beginning of a lot more interesting, challenging & happy-fying life ahead.
There was a lot that I wanted to share over the last 9 months, but did not. Partly because of cultural and parental guidance and partly because I did want the arrival of the baby to be a surprise to most of the world. Also, because all of this was happening to both me & biwi (mostly to her) I was not sure about sharing it with folks she did not know.
I will try to capture most stuff in a nutshell below, though each of the below could ideally be a separate post in itself:
This marked the end of a very eventful, challenging & interesting 9 months in our lives and is the beginning of a lot more interesting, challenging & happy-fying life ahead.
There was a lot that I wanted to share over the last 9 months, but did not. Partly because of cultural and parental guidance and partly because I did want the arrival of the baby to be a surprise to most of the world. Also, because all of this was happening to both me & biwi (mostly to her) I was not sure about sharing it with folks she did not know.
I will try to capture most stuff in a nutshell below, though each of the below could ideally be a separate post in itself:
- Getting pregnant: the questioning, the planning, the frustration, the anxiety, the euphoria. Short lesson : planning may not work.
- A difficult difficult first trimester: biwi on bed-rest, a lot more anxiety, biwi quits her job (tough decision for someone who was the life of her team & loved being it)
- Subway sandwich, strawberries, cake fudge, strawberries with ice-cream : these were very mild demands compared to what I have heard & most of them were at earthly hours.
- Preparing for parenting - joined ISP: Infant SSY programme conducted by RSVK 2.5 hours for 9 sundays was a lot of time, but I totally recommend the program to all to-be parents / parents with kids less than 8 years of age. I am not following everything I learnt there, but I did acquire a new way of thinking about children - their needs & abilities and how often adults show disrespect to their needs & abilities.
- Finding the right hospital / gynaec : Lot of choices, lot of experiences; we chose Dr. Padmini Isaac at Cradle.
- Preparing for birth : lamaze classes - very helpful again. Just the knowledge imparted was more than worth it. Knowing what you are going to go through makes it a lot more easier.
- The last few days - waiting, anxiety, phone-calls : any news? :)
- A lot of pain & then a section - Ouch Ouch Ouch!
- All's well :) Baby & mommy doing fine, return home. Home decorated beautifully with Pink & white balloons lined on the roof throughout the home by shashwat_09675 , ankitaprasad , Sapna & Sonu
- Post partum haemorrhage - another tough 2 days, had to return to the hospital. But things came under control quickly.