Its a baby girl !!!

Its a baby girl !!! Baby, you came to us 10:32 am on July 11th. Your daddy was with us in the operation theatre and he saw you before I did ! I had to satisfy myself with hearing your cry for the first few minutes.

This is your picture when i held you for the first time. You look so cute !

We stayed in the hospital for a couple of days and we bought you home on 14th. The next two days you wouldnot let me sleep either at day or night. I was going completely insane ! Soon we both adapted to each other and now you get enough feed and I get enough sleep .

We have been searching names for you for you but nothing seems good enough. That you happened to us is nothing less than a real miracle. I shall talk about this in detail some time later.

Life has changed. I am a mother now !

The Day Before

In another twelve hours or so, we will have our baby in our arms. Its so hard to believe that the day for which I have been waiting so long is so near.
Last couple of weeks have been the toughest days of pregnancy. Some infection decided to visit me and thanks to it, I was subjected to dozens of injections. Yesterday, when we saw the doctor, she said we shouldnot be waiting any more as the lycre(dont know how to spell it ) has become very low. So baby you come four weeks before your due date. As impatient as your mumma ? Huh !
We have packed two bags, one for the baby and one for Mom & Dad. Daddy has done the packing and no prizes for guessing whose clothes and accessories dominate the bag space.

We have to reach hospital at 7:30 am tommorow, which means I should have been asleep by now. But is it easy to sleep tonite ? Not for me !

Ok.. This was a long break.. Not that I didnt want to write, but I guess my brain is too hyperactive these days to concentrate on any one activity. I want to do everythng and nothing ! I already have the god gift of impatience in everything I do. This pregnancy has made me a zillion times more impatient. I look at the calendear on my laptop and I wish i could sit on the cursor and jump to July 15th. Yes, July 15th is the tentative date for the baby of my dreams to come in this world. My due date will be end of july or 1st week of Aug, but the doctor says she would do a elective ceasarean around mid July.
Last few weeks have been quite eventful. Last tuesday, I realized I could not feel the baby's movement as much. Now my baby is as hyperactive as me and normally keeps kicking around. That day was unusual. The baby hardly made any movements. We rushed to the doctor around 10 pm in the night. I was monitored for 30 mins or so and thankfully everythng was fine. Next day the baby movements were normal. Yesterday, we went to the doc for routine checkup. I have gained around 10 kgs in my seven and a half months of pregnancy. The doctor thinks thats not good enough ! So she sets a target of another four kgs in the next four weeks. I have been given some protein drinks and tablets. The protien mix is as yucky as expensive it is. I need to take it two times a day. After I have taken it once the rest of the day is spent in anticipation and horror of the next dosage !
I have been working from home for some months now. Most of the work that I do has been transitioned to my replacement and there really is not much to do. To kill the boredom, I have surfed through numerous sites, read numorous blogs, made phone calls to all my acquaintances, watched movies back to back, read novels , and I still AM BORED AND RESTLESS. I thought of doing some knitting though I hardly know what it is all about. My husband forgets to get me a knitting kit everytime. I tried cooking but that leaves me very tired. I used to paint a little. May be I will try my hand at it tommorow.
The next appointment with my doctor is on 26th June. We will get a 4D ultrasound scan done for our baby. I will get to see my baby in colour and that makes me very excited. But that will be another 13 days of wait.

Almost there !

Yes we are almost there !!
We will soon complete 7 months of waiting . Two more months and we will have our bundle of joys in our arms . The last seven months have not been easy and i wish i had started writing this journal earlier. It was on 1st of Dec that we got to know that i might be pregnant. Oh ! wht an excitement that was ! We didnot tell anyone before we got it confimed with the doctor later. The next six months were filled with docotor visits , scans, tests and anxiety. I feel much better and happier now that i am so close to the day.

This weekend we went searching for the ideal cradle for our baby. Most babies in India co-sleep with their parents. I believe it will be better if our baby sleeps in her own cradle which may be attached to our bed. I wonder though how practical its going to be ! Have heard stories of new born babies getting up every two hours in the night ! We liked the cradle with steel frames and looks like we will finally buy that one. We also looked at all the accessories we might be needing and baby clothings.