After 2 weeks

He is 15 days old now and how much has he learnt, he knows his mom an dad's touch. He knows to ask for food. He knows to say if the climate is chill for him. He knows to say that he is not happy with his stomach. He knows when he is going to urine! Just that we don't know that he know them. It takes a bit of time for us to understand how he expresses each of the those needs. I'm sure we have not understood. Here he is after 7 days!

What clarity in his face. How soft he is. With big nails, always try to draw lines all over himself and wound him. We (me and my wife) are soaking ourselves in to believe that we have a kid. It is really hard of us to believe!

After 7 days of holding him is when that kicked in, "Fear of responsibility"! I think everyone goes through this phase in their life. Just that we get used to that and start managing it.  Reading blogs, you will see a lot of beautiful terminologies around this fear and how people over come it.

Here are the footprints me and my wife would never forget in our lives.

HE has arrived!

Nearly 15 days gone and too many changes! Phew! HE is 15 days old. HE has not been named yet. We have suggestions, but yet to be finalized. We should add "Noname" and "Untitled" to the list. Here he is when he was born (rather after 4 hours)!

He was weighing around 3.4 Kgs when he was born with a height of 50 cms and a head circumference of 36.5 cms (Quite a big head, I was told). When he brought out of the OT, doctor whistled me "Its a baby boy, both are safe and good". I did not know how to react at that moment. All I could do was shed tears of joy (Unable to control them). He was taken to NICU and kept there for 4 hours and was brought back to us at the maternity ward. I was explained the whole set of things about the baby and the proceedings for the next few hours. I barely heard any word. After 4 hours of wait, now he comes to join his mother for the first job to learn in his life. He has to learn to suck! He learnt it from the word go! After 3 days of stay at hospital, we came back home. He had a huge set of nears and dears at our place to welcome him. Here he is after reaching home, clicked for the first time

A bunch of shots below!

Heir to my throne!

Here is the day of decision! Our lil cutie is still not showing signs of crowning :) 39 weeks + 5 days old now! After a long wait, we have to decided to start holding the life created by us on our hands! A day or 2 to go!

Our lil seem to a big lil! Expected to be around 3.3 Kgs. Here the statistics start. Phew, so many stats in the reports, atleast 25. So many graphs, so many vital statistics and atleast 1000 links which talk about each of those statistics! And as always 50% feeling happy about it, 50% worrying about it. 4 scans (until now), 3 blood reports, atleast 10 consultations and people say we are blessed to have so less visits.

Differences between a normal and cesarean delivery is much more than the regular medical science. People say 'Cesarean' is much simpler, few hours job medically. But the tougher job is to decide WHEN? Date and time has to be decided. Astrology, biology, gender, availability (hospital, people, rooms, doctor, tickets for nears and dears), traffic, time (to the accuracy of seconds), name, numerology are some(?) things we need to plan for! For a person like me, where decision making is a life-time process, ooh! I prefer normal delivery for my wife! Of all these factors, we (he and she) are no players. All we get to have is a pride look as a father and a mother!

My kid has been so nice to his/her (We don't know the gender yet) mom by not paining her at all even after close to 40 weeks. I know kid's comfort with mother is unmatched, but mother's anxiety to hold her life in hands is equally unmatched. We are heading to the hospital in a day or two to see if there is still a possibility of normal and if not, cesarean.

BTW, I was once told, that Einstein was the only person who lived in the womb for 40 weeks. If that stats had been true, current world population should have been 10% of Einsteins. Am I going to hold another Einstein? I hope not, I don't want my kids face to be used as cartoons on T-Shirts.