Wrapped up Week 26 !

Double celebration time ! It was Jamai Soshti yesterday and you completed 26 weeks inside of me :)
So off we went to Zizzi`s for some nice Italian food (one of those very few days when Baba needs to be pampered ;) )
Your Baba is one helluva funny man who made me laugh so bad that even you started bouncing inside. Aahh !! I love you both so much. Didn`t know it was possible to feel this madly about you and I haven`t even set my eyes on you yet :)
We also bought the first of 'baby belongings' for you over the weekend :) Practical stuff yet I couldn`t stop smiling when I clicked on the checkout cart. It was a little milestone but something quite concrete. A physical testimony to your impending arrival ( Your mamma is a gooey sappy woman I tell you :P )
Yesterday Neelesh Uncle had a little baby boy. So you already have a friend ready and waiting for you.

Stay safe and happy in there my baby. :*

Done with Week 24 !!

Yayy! We complete 'viability week' or whatever that means ! No one`s going to tell me when is it that they will bother to make efforts to save you - coz it doesnt matter. Not to me and not to your Baba. Coz we know we would never even let the thought of you fighting to make it, cross our minds. We are a family already. You, me and Baba and we don`t need anyone to tell us if it is possible to 'save' anyone of us. It was never a question and it will never be one. We are so shamelessly obsessed with you that harmless kicks and thumps make me giggly happy and make Baba wistfully wish that he was able to carry you inside of him :)
Just stay safe junior and stay happy in there ! :)

Cant wait to meet you !!

Last day of First trimester

Grateful. That`s what I feel these days. Grateful to you - the entire 3 inches of your being that`s bobbing and bouncing inside. Thank you ! For making me love myself. For making me feel proud and confident of myself.
All I want right now is to reach in and give you a tender little squeeze of a hi-five. And Mummy`s chicken biriyani. And some nice adrak-wali chai from a dhaba. Sigh!

Week 11

I`ve been moody, cranky and flatulent like never before. Last Friday was my first booking appointment with the midwife and the first scan is on the 27th of Feb. A full 17 days before I get to set my eyes on you for the very first time !!
The wait is killing but what is more depressing is that there is nothing to look forward to before then.
The days just chug along and I keep rubbing my growing belly. Wondering how many people are taking me to be an irresponsible glutton trying to hide the holiday fat (which should be long gone by now) under layers of winter clothes.
I don't feel like shopping. Don't feel like cooking. Nothing !! Just aches and pains and weird scary dreams.

But yeah the cravings are there. Of being loved and reassured that I still am the same person I was. Of that hyped pregnancy glow - that still eludes me. Of Hyderabadi Biriyani from Victoria Road, Bhojohari Manna`s Daab chingri, Samosa`s from Sharma`s and Maa`s chhoto maach.

Straddling two places in my heart - Bhubaneswar and Derby. Between Mommy-Daddy and Saby. Aaarrrghhh !!!

Soooo, you made your entry into our lives and what an entry !!! On the 1st of Jan 2014 !! A new year, a new life to hold and to cherish forever.