Happy Lohri!!

Today is Lohri, which is celebrated every year on 13th of January. In our culture it is usually pretty auspicious and important to celebrate all the first events! So – my little angel- though it’s not your first technical Lohri (which will be next year- when we’ll meet, celebrate and greet and wish you in person) – but I still consider this as your first Lohri- as you’ll be the part of the celebration (indirectly). By then you’ll be almost one year of age!! Wow! Can’t believe my thoughts can take me that far!

Hoping to meet you soon, my dear child- to celebrate all these traditional festivities together as a family!

36 weeks- and the countdown begins now!

Woohoo!!! The title says it all!! Gosh, I cannot believe, I am in the 36 week mark and just few days more to go and the little blessing will be in our arms - yawning, touching, cuddling, smiling and gently moving his/her eyes to catch every glimpse around in this beautiful little world of ours. Suddenly- this undesired pressure has started mounting on me, and I feel like he/she can arrive any moment now. So with every ache and pain I ask myself- is this it? Its funny cause when that happens I feel like – Oh my gosh I am so unprepared! The symptoms have escalated like anything – from cramps, sleeplessness, pains, emotional, sensitivity, appetite decrease to even getting mild fever. But hopefully all is going well. Today at 36 week appointment- I am hoping to get more information and heads up about our baby’s arrival- hence I am pretty curious yet nervous.

Some days I feel I am depressed- feel If I will even be a good mom to my baby! If I will ever live up to expectations of being a nice, caring and loving mom? I just want to give him And sometime I am so excited- that I just want to love and talk to my baby in the womb, sing him/her songs and lullaby’s. Just want to give him/her the best in the world! Guess thats every parent's desire!

Alright then- hopefully i will get to write more before the grand arrival. I shall keep you all posted!

Welcoming 2009!

Happy New Year!!!

Yay! We have finally entered this new era of year 2009 and we are so excited to welcome you to our world soon! Wishing you a very Happy New Year!!

I am too emotional to express my desire to hold you in my arms and wish you the best of this season. Offering you all my love and blessings to begin with in this year with hope, happiness, warmth and special memories!!! Love you a lot my child!

Sympathy Symptoms?????

Now what the heck are sympathy symptoms! Well pregnancy definitely has expanded my horizon of understanding various pains, but this area called 'Sympathy Pains' was untouched until now. Not sure if many people know about this, but atleast my coworkers were the first ones to share it with me. And now I can practically associate it with!

To make it clear in lay man terms, sympathy pains are usually similar symptoms to pregnancy a partner usually experiences around the same course. Example, if I am having nausea- there is a possibility Amit might be feeling sick! I couldn't believe it at first, but slowly and gradually I have started to realize this is true! I can't prove this theory since Amit doesn't reflect his condition upfront, but I recently noticed him feeling the same way I did. He said it before I did! And I wondered, if at all Sympathy pains are to be believed. I definitely have!!

Hiding!!

Yeah, I've been hiding in my snugly little corner- away from blogging and the social world. Couple of reasons-

- Work is keeping me occupied 12 hrs at the least. By the time I reach home, I am tired, exhausted, drained, in pain at times, and many other things that follow.

- Doctors appointments. Well starting December 2008, my appointments have moved from monthly to biweekly.

- Days are drawing close. That I would say is the # 1 reason for my hiding in my closet...shying away from blog. The feeling of finally having our little gem finally kicked in as soon as this month started! I couldn't believe at first that just 2 months are left for the grand arrival, and I guess I would wanted to stay in denial all this while. I feel so unprepared now! Oh gosh!! I have been reading the newsletter and the same-month-mommy's are so ready, I feel I am the only one lagging behind. I haven't done much preparations yet. No nursery, no crib, no travel system, no diapers!!!!! Can't believe myself that I have not done any of that. All I have shopped for my cuddly fellow is bunch of clothes that would be needed in the hospital!!

So, I am under a constant pressure, to look for stuff, research for it and as it is in here it's very hard to quickly decide for the stuff you need!! One have to browse through couple of stores, compare, check, and finally make your decision on a particular item. Hopefully by the end of this year- we'll buy most of the items listed in my checklist, complete Lamaze classes, pre-register in the hospital and hopefully be finally ready.

This week is going to be super busy and I'll talk about the happenings around a little later. Got to get ready for work! Will catch up later!!! Ciao!

Dadi Dada are here!! Wohoo!!

Dadu and Dadi aka our baby's grandparents have arrived! They reached Orlando on Friday evening from California. This time around it's their baby care trip. As initially they visited CA to take care of their grand daughter, Raashi, who is 5 month old. And then now they have come to visit us, to welcome their grand child.

Who knew they'll be seeing two new grand children in a single trip!!

baby pictures- 3D/ 4 D

Finally- we get to see our baby!!! Yay!!

I am amazed as how the technology has advanced in these past years, that we can actually look at our child, find out his/her expressions, features and what not!! Though your baby needs to be co-operative to take these memorable photographs. We went thrice to the technician, as our baby is you can call it as a shy baby. He/she would cover his/her face with their legs and toes or at times with hands or go behind placenta.

But there was no giving up by Mommy and Daddy either. We are as stubborn as our lil one to take a peak as to how does our lil gem looks like. The third time, we could capture some nice profile of our baby and here is how it came out:





If you notice carefully, the baby is pointing the index finger towards us.


Is that a smile? I can't tell!!