We are expecting a BABY....

Remya's parents, her sister and her grandfather have just come to Hyderabad and we all had lots of fun by dropping in at Ramoji Film City and having a roundup of Hyderabad City Tour. At Ramoji, while all of the other folks including my parents and her parents prefferred to sit, myself and Remya sat in the giant wheel and had topsy turvy fun....you know we are kids... Just to ensure things are 'progressing', I took Remya for a doctor checkup and lo, Doc says "We are going to be parents soon".

Immediately I remembered the Bru Coffee ad wherein the wife brings a small cup to tell her husband that she is pregnant. It's such a joy to know that you would have a kid in your arms soon. That also brings an important topic of the necessity for Remya to take extreme care of her health and not work late nights and not strain in particular. It was such a sweet phase of life, wherein I used to give her Protinex, and with Remya hating milk, it used to take so much effort, cajoling and emotional blackmail to make her drink a glass of Protinex. Both of us were on cloud-9 and used to wait eagerly for Tuesday's when the Babycenter post used to drop into my mailbox. Baby Center is extremely good in informing us the foetal status, the care to be taken including pics and nice images. Remya had gone to an extent of writing poems too on the different phases that the baby is taking shape in the womb, first as a groundnut size, then enlarging to cashewnut, then apple, then pineapple :P and finally becoming round shape.

As I saw Remya progressing through her months, its such a sweet experience not explicable by words. In order to ensure that she gets enough care, we travelled together to Trivandrum during August for the wedding of Kuttan (Kumar - her cousin brother) and had Remya stay there itself with her mom. With her mom too taking voluntary retirement, Remya is now getting glassful of milk and no cajoling here, my mother-in-law is strict, and Remya knows that better :P :P

I did see the foetus during 5th month, when he/she was moving around and waving hands etc. It was just a mesmerising feeling internally....We are all waiting eagerly to see whether it would be a boy or a girl, whether he would look like his dad or mom etc etc. Since on work related assignments, I had to travel to US, I had a month of stay at Charlotte and came back for my wife's Seemantham and then travelled back to US for another month, and arrived early November.

Time'z Running Fast...