Arrival of Baby number 2 !! 13th December 2014

Birth stories for me are always an interesting read. So here goes mine... Well I had complete my 40 week on 5th December and my contractions had not yet begun. This time around I had a lovely doctor who was very supportive of natural delivery. I went to him on 5th December, Friday and nothing was happening, no contractions, enough water in the water bag. So he told me to come the following week on Monday. I had begun contraction but they were irregular, enough water again, So I was sent back. This was followed by a visit on Wednesday, again irregular contractions and enough water , so was sent back again. The next appointment was on Friday 12th Dec, full water bag and irregular contractions, doctoe said your baby should be out during this weekend, but since there was nothing happening yet you can go home. Well this time around I was very relaxed, way pasted my week 41 I was still very energetic, so after the doctors appointment, I went of with my hubby for a lovely lunch. Ironically I also was running to catch a bus in week 41 !! one of the crazy thing I did that day. We returned home at 2.30 pm and then we all decided to rest. Around 3pm, I started feeling the contractions every half and hour, by evening I was rushing to the bathroom and could not keep anything down. the contraction were coming every 15 minutes by 8.00 pm and even though I had dinner I threw it all up and was totally miserable by 10 pm with contractions coming almost every 10 minutes. I had my final throw up at 11pm and told my hubby I need to go to the hospital as the pain was getting unbearable. He asked me to hold on the night. After a lot of argument on whether to goto the hospital or not, I put my foot down and said I need to go now. So he called for a cab. He and my father accompanied me to the hospital. I reached the hospital by 1.00 am and my contractions were not coming 4 min apart and the pain was unbearable. I asked for an epidural, which I was given. Surprisingly my doctor said my water bag had burst and so the contractions were so close. We waited till about 4.00am when the doctor saw irregular heart beat of the baby and examined my cervix for dilation. He unfortunately found the baby had passed meconium due to contractions and he ordered for an emergency c-sec. Well my baby was out finally on 13th December 2014, midst all the drama. I had a healthy baby girl - Yuvna weighing 3.6 Kgs after 41.5 weeks. A girl, who like all girls came out with lots of drama. The most beautiful experience and the most thrilling pregnancy. A sweetheart and a princess, there could not have been a better way you would have been born!! Love you to the moon and back :)

 

April 2014 - Good News!! Second Pregnancy

Well I am writing after a long time, turning back to 2014 April!! I conceived my second child ... It was exciting and a more relaxed pregnancy as compared to the first one. This time around I was no longer anxious, no longer looking for each month development on the baby centre web site. I was just relaxing, Starting to survive the first trimester with Coca cola. It was funny, as the only thing I could keep me from throwing up was this unhealthy drink. I suffered from terrible acidity and was literally rushing to the washroom to throw up. I vividly remember one such meeting with my finance controller, where I had to excuse myself  in between a one to one meeting and I rushed to the washroom like a mad woman. Oops!! Well the only thing solid I could keep down then was Julies' Wheat crackers. The one thing I feared was, my second would be a boy again!! Well Heart of hearts I wanted a girl this time around, but just like my first pregnancy my second one was plagued with terrible nausea prompting me to think it would be a boy again!!

The second trimester went through smoothly and so did the third. This time around I had a lovely Baby Sprinkle on the 19th of November. With my friends all enthusiastic about my delivery, we had a lot of games and dancing at the event. It was super fun!! Some of the remembrances below:

 

Rishabs Updates!!! Back with a BANG!!

Well I am back with some more updates on Rishab... What I thought was the end of most things was in fact the beginning for many new things. My last update was in March , since then Rishab has changed a lot.. grown up a lot and infact he is now much more independent and responsible.

So let me first recap the past few months... Every month was special.... We started giving milk to Rishab in a glass like I updated in April... and believe me it was a pain for me.. Can u imagine a child doesn’t know how to swallow continuously.. I mean like taking one gulp at a time.. he use to take baby sips.. and to finish a glass of 120 ml it would take us 20 minutes.. thats in April. 7 months later in November he is holding his own glass and drinking. Check one!!

In may we went to India for my brother’s wedding and he thoroughly enjoyed..He was quiet a good boy throughout the wedding.. in fact he gave some real good company to us by staying up till 2 am in the morning.
I remember some of the funny incidents which i would like to share. Well we had a morning flight and Rishab was quiet active throughout the 5 hour flight. In between he wanted to go to pee..and he told me.. so i took him to the loo.. but poor baby was so scared of sitting in the big potty that he did not go.. so i wore him a diaper. The small potty was checked in so bad luck. He controlled himself for a good 4 hours and we kept telling him do it in the diaper.. but he refused.. Finally he did it in the diaper and started crying.. It was such a hilarious scene.

Finally in June we stopped the Schichida class after a good one year.. We thought Rishab was also getting bored of the repetition and we had benefited enough in terms of his development.

July was of course his 2nd birthday and this time we did it at home

My last Post

This is sadly the last post for my blog. Why!! well lack of time is one of the reasons... but more importantly... most of Rishabs developmental milestones as a toddler are done.. I had initially thought I would end this blog on his second birthday.. but alas !! I realise today its no more exciting to write .. the passion and energy to write has disappeared .. not because rishab is not developing..or he is not doing new things daily.. every day is still new.. and infact so new that its difficult to put it in words anymore.. it is still exciting but I guess I feel more like experiencing it than writing it.. Every moment is to be captured.. but I guess I cant do it any longer on this blog... I can only experience it.. love it or hate it.. but cant pen it down anymore.. One more reason is now as a mother all of Rishabs shouting crying and everything seems normal.. nothing tenses me anymore.. and as I wrote this last post... somewhere all along I feel I writing this blog has increased my confidence as a mother and made me feel all things Rishab does are normal today.

Today when I see a crying child or a fussy child or a child throwing tantrums.. I donot criticize the mother or judge the father .. I simply smile.. not because my son is better or because the scene looks funny.. I smile because I know the efforts the parents are taking and I appreciate this fact .. at the same time I also understand that all children go through some phase of tantrums and we as parents are trying our best and thats what matters in the end... With a child patience is the key and unconditional love the path to make him learn.

As a mother I still get tensed when he fusses to have food, I also use the laptop once a day to make him eat foods which he doesnt like.. I still get frustrated at times when Rishab does not listen.. but I have realised all this is normal. Some small wording from my heart:

I child will make you laugh,
I child will make you cry,
He will make you feel the best person at times,
And at times a total failure,
At times he will make you boost with confidence
At other times feel as timid and fearful as a rabbit
At times you will want to hug him
and at othertimes just get angry with him
You will enjoy with him on many days
And on somedays just want a break from him
You might need to do the same thing 100 time for him to learn
But when he learns it on the 101st time your pleasure will be uncontrollable
At times you will pray for him to grow up soon
And when he grows up you will miss his childhood
You will get tensed when he falls ill
And surprised when he shows his resistence like he is a super man
when you look back you will count the mistakes you made
laugh on the stupidities you did and the tension you took
This is because.....
Its not only your child who is growing up and learning new things..
He is also helping you learn to become a parent...
A child IS this difficult but pleasurable journey for your life
which will make you patient and calm and value small things in life.

Ofcourse my blog cant end without Rishabs updates... Last month was pretty bad for Rishab.. he was down with cough and cold for one week and  the second week with flu.. But now he is more independent.. "bites his food". ust few more things to achieve .. get him to leave the bottle.. which i will do when he is around 3 years.. maybe after may and remove his night diaper. and make him eat  normal adult food.. He is now speaking full sentences "Papa buy me new bus.. bus broke" He has preferences.. he say " mummy make you sleep" "papa make you eat" "papa get monkey book" "excuse me mummy". He is also doing his brush now everyday.. because he has an incentive to gargle and spit out the water.He is eating grapes and puri and chapatti. Thankyou Rishab .. mummy is proud of you.

Lastly to my dear readers..thank you for reading my posts and being with me through this journey.. from the blog statistics i cant see who you are but I know people from across the world are reading my blog (a small number). I hope you have enjoyed reading my blog.. I would be happy if you could post some comments on this last post.. so that someday if and when my son reads it.. he would feel happy.

I have really enjoyed blogging on the memories Rishab has given me but like all good things come to an end.. so does my blog. I just want to end this post by saying "I will always love you son and I will capture all your remaining memories in my heart from now on. Thankyou Rishab for this lovely experience of blogging
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PS: Readers can put in your comments to idnani.priya@gmail.com too.

Rishab at 19 months

Each month with Rishab seems to be getting more and more easier. This month was quiet good... Risahb has progressed quiet well on the "biting front" He is now eating chappati and other things..  We experimented with omlette and Parathas and chappatis and he seem to like all very much.. So much so that he asked for his chappati on his own and rolls it and dips in curd and eats it.. The vegetable obviously follows.

One hilarilous incident which took place was.. till last month we had been pureeing or mashing fruits before giving Rishab.. This time I asked my maid to get small pieces of papaya. It so happened that knowing rishab she got half plate of pieces and the other half mashed. Rishab loved biting the papaya pices and when it got ove I put the mashed papaya in to his mouth and he looks at me and tells me "Papaya pieces?" I was laughing. told him pieces are over only mashed papaya.. but being a good boy that he is he finished the mashed papaya.
Due to my fracture I am at home so Rishab sees mummy all day but papa only in the evening. So he is all "Papa Papa in the evening" so much so that he will tell his papa "Papa take you down.. pleeease" (He does not say "Papa take me down" .. does not know difference between "me and you" :))If his papa comes late when me or my maid are making him eat he will tell us " Papa make you eat. Mummy please excuse me" and this is hilarious when you hear it.

I completely forgot to mention his tantrums.. If he wants something he will crying like a loudest baby on this planet. Its quiet scary even now at times.

He is also well settled in school now... infacts likes going to school. Its again a big milestone... It took him about 2.5 weeks to get used to it but now he enjoys it. He made a couple of craft items in school.. like a face and a chinese new year card. So yes, he is growing up too soon. We feel sad about it, but at the same time feel proud of him.

He  routine looks more or less looks like this : Get up by seven. Do his potty and his brush. Eats his breakfast then Papa gets him ready by 8.30am for school. Come back by 11.30am and has his egg and then drinks milk and sleeps for one to one and a half hour. He gets up by 1.30 and starts food by 2.00 pm. Currently he take about and hour for his food as he is new to biting food so is a  little slow. After food is play time and then 4.30 fruit time and 5.30 milk time. And yes the 5.30 pm milk is now by cup. From last week, we tried in a small cup souvinier to make him drink milk and after that he always asks for a cup to drink his evening milk. One more achievement.Then he goes down to play. He is back from play by 7.30 for dinner. Night time always has some rice dish as he is too sleepy. He is usually done with dinner by 8.00 - 8.15. Unfortunately we need to show him the laptop to finsh his dinner nowadays. So he has a bath at night before he sleeps.( due to the last few weeks being a little cold in the mornings) . So he is in bed by 9.00 - 9.30pm.

Again proud of your acheievements Rishab!! Keep going!!

Rishab is surprising mummy and daddy!!!

Lets start with Rishab's biting progress, oh my sweetypie has progressed well... very well. Starting with Chapati , to aloo paratha to sweetpotato potato paratha and today methi & sweet potato paratha.. and finger chips in addition to biting his food he is doing great!! the 8 teeth he is getting are releiving me from the 10 month stress I was under (griding food). Today I really feel like thanking God for our teeth!! I might sound stupid but the relief and pride I sense today cannot be explained in words.

His language is growing by leaps and bounds daily.. Sometimes we feel we are talking to an adult. He speaks full saentence now likew "Mommy pick up car" "please excuse me " "Rishab dont want this one " "Rishab go down" "old mac donald has a farm eeya eeya oh" " jingle bells jingle beel jingle all the way ohh wat fun it is to ride.... " Its fun to hear him sing rhymes.

He also replies to questions "what is your name ?" "Rishab Vala" " what is mummys name ? " "Priya" " what is papas name ?" "mrugesh"( not so clear though) "what building number do you stay?" "412" "where does mummy work?" " Where does papa work?" "What does beena chachi do?" "Where does Parry chacha work?"

This week i also saw him zoom his car and it really travelled a long way through.. I was wondering on the wonderful journey of  my chid who at six month never knew which side to place the car to make it moove forward... to learning to place his car on th wheels... to pushing it slowly... and now making it zoom and slide down from the sofa... Seems simple to us... but for a child it is an accomplishment which he can be proud of. Rishab mommy an Papa are also proud of you!!  Love you .

Coming back to the cooking stuff... i am so delighted with the thought of all that i can try!!! Simply too excited!! So many ideas.. Cheese paratha.. omeltte.. bread jam .. bread butter.. carrot paratha.. chicken nuggets.. aloo tikki...i am flooded with ideas on all i can try!! I will definitely write more in my next post.

Now for some photos of our India trip.. long time the post are looking dull now:

Exciting stuff - Rishab is biting his food

Well Well Well I had to record this new milestone and it happened today.. Finally Rishab has started biting his food. He had a whole beetroot paratha and that too on his own. I am so proud of him. Believe me I was sick of grinding and mashing stuff for him and giving him the same food and all the last 10 month all he had was rice ... Today finally he ate chapatti and proved to me that he is now a big boy.. oh what a proud moment for me!!

Going a little back he gave up on the cerelac at around 8 month and finally on the mashed food after 10months... at 18 months... Now I feel my son is normal.. actually cant really blame him.. he has just 8 front teeth .. just noticed 4 other teeth have started showing the tip.. so thats a good sign.. now maybe he feels like biting and chewing... ahh!!! real relief .. I know it might sound normal to most of you but believe me I was tired of grinding food and making him eat rice..You will not believe it but starting egg yolk for rishab at 6 month was a blessing.. but he could never eat the egg white of the half fry... and in the past one year each day he would eat the egg yolk and either me or my hubby or my parents would need to finish the remaining as part of their breakfast.. Literally tues/thur was fixed for me and wed/fri for my hubby remaining days parents would eat the egg white. Today however Rishab ate the whole half fry .. yes even the white of it!! and it was a relief.. atleast we no longer need to have egg as a compulsory breakfast.

Yet another milestone.. yes ofcourse it will be another month before he really matures to biting things well... but atleast you have a start  Rishab!! Mommy and Papa are proud of you!!s