Poor l'il cheeku gets DPT vaccine :(

And he has got fever plus lot of pain...can't see him like this..thats a big injection for him..he continued crying for days..yeah 2 days..
Deepak is down with 103.5 degrees of fever..he is ill for almost one week now and is scheuled for a blood test tomorrow..so tensed I am..:( not a great year end :(

He gave me the first real smile today... :))

I am on the seventh sky...out of the world today..I was changing Cheeku's nappy today and continously talking to him, singing to him, and suddenly he started smiling.. and not for a fraction sec like before..it was long and it seemd he was liking the job..:) then from that time, he is giving occasionsal smiles to me as if he is really enjoying mum's company and job..It is the most precious day..I AM LOVING IT!!

6 weeks old cheeku.. :)

Weeks just fly away when you are the mother of a new baby. Cheeku is 6 weeks old now and it still seems a yesterday's affair (of giving birth). Life changes completely once you are a mum. You start having a feeling of completion in yourself.You walk around in a fog and this is the kind of thing you're thinking:

• My baby is the cutest and most beautiful baby EVER! It's not even fair for all the other babies!

• What was I looking for again?

• Look at those cheeks! "Yes you my a cute *chocolate pastry*!"

• What day are we? (or what time is it?)

• Did I brush my teeth this morning?

• Maybe I can snooze for a few minutes before it's tomorrow...

• Did that relative wash their hands before touching the baby?

• When's the last time I took a shower and what the ____ is up with my hair?

• *looking at baby* Could I be feeling any more love right now?

:)) well yes this is so true that this 4 kg kid has made everyone dance like this ;) I am so exhausted (Ok ok Even Deepak and mummy too are.. ;)). I never knew I could be so physically, emotionally, and mentally drained. I read somewhere that Cheeku is operating mostly on instinct right now, but no one told me that I too would be reduced to little more than instinct in the first few days ;). I have only a vague concept of night and day right now - I'm dozing in little chunks between feedings (so if any of this post doesn't make sense, you know why). Cheeku makes us awake the whole night and cries cries and cries...(all cries lead to nursing him only)

I feel like I'll never have the energy to even crawl out of bed and get dressed! How long until I feel like myself again?

9-12-2009- Our one month old baby...

Cheeku is one month today!

Sometimes it looks to me that I gave birth to my joy-bundle yesterday only,,and sometimes it looks I am with him for ages..But where this one month has flew, we both are amazed..

Although days and weeks do fly so fast with him, there is definitely a difference between 1 week and 4. We're recognizing cries more, and if we aren't we have the baby soothing routine down and we do it like as if we've been programmed to. Check the diaper, walk around, snuggle, burp, eat... In whatever order works for us.
Both Deepak and I have falled in love once again..but this time not with each other.. :) but with our baby.. :)) He looks such a miracle to us and is impossible to write or discribe in words..We love him the most..

We so much enjoy the bonding, but that's WAY too long... We have a life!
 
Life with our 1 month old infant is amazingly wonderful and I am trying to savor every moment. What if I'm not lucky enough to go through all this again? Because I feel lucky. Lucky for every cry, every poop, every pee, every burp, every smile...

He's here!

He's here! (And finally I am managing some time to write this post when he is sleeping in my lap...:))
Little Cheeku made his grand entrance on November 9th 2009 at 9.53 PM. Everything's kind of a blur and I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I'm this little person's mother and he's completely dependent on me for everything, but other than that we're healthy and happy, and extremely tired. He's so tiny! Of course, during the last three weeks of my pregnancy and delivery he certainly didn't feel so small!


I really didn't think he was going to come any time soon - thought for sure he was cozy in there and I would go past my due date (the 15th). In my last post on 9th nov, I worte that I already started getting contractions and weather I could eat sambhar chawal was the pole for the day ;)

And the answer is 'NO' - I could not..:) We had our doc appointment in night and we were waiting for Deepak to return from office so that we go to doc soon. I already started feeling pains and high bp.. when we went to the doc at 8:00, and he examined me, and I told him I was having very little (almost no) baby movements since last night, he looked suspecious..my BP was going high, and was risky for baby. To add to our tensions, Cheeku still did not come into the brith head down position and was in breech..So doc decided to immidiately operate me as baby heart beats would have sink..He asked us not even to go home and to get admitted asap..I was so nervous that I started crying of fear..Soon I was in nursing home for a C-section and after having such painful and traumatic delivery experience, I gave birth to Cheeku at 9.53 PM...

If someone asks me what was the most memorable moment of my life, it was definitly when I saw my baby for the first time..nobody has seen him like that..he just came out of my tummy and our connecting cord was even not cut yet, when doc showed him to me..he was so covered with blood and other things, and even remembering the moment make me thrilled..It was looking like a miracle to me that he was here...I was feeling so proud to make the most beautiful baby on earth :)

Cheeku's body stats at the time of birth:
Weight: 2.8 kg.
Hight: 19 inches
Date: 9-November-2009 (A Scorpio child)
Time: 9:53 PM
I remember his first cry.. he was such a little baby and cried like a champ, which just made me cry harder..