I wanted to note down every little thing Aahlad does... everyday... but haven’t been able to. I hope I can regularly blog from now. I want to capture every small moment, be it good or bad in here.

Aahlad is now 48 days old... Time sure flies... He hasn’t started to recognize faces yet. I am waiting for the day when he will smile at me :) ... Now he smiles only when his stomach is full or in his sleep.

Two days back we had been to the hospital for check up and his vaccination (Hepatitis A). He now weighs 5.4 Kgs :)… His birth weight was 3.5 Kgs.. His pediatrician Dr.Nalini Shenoy finds him cute and loves his eyes, she gives him a peck on his cheek every time we visit her. When I complained to her about him stretching a lot, she commented saying “Who asked him to drink so much milk? He is supposed to have gained around 600 to 700 grams and now he has gained almost 1200 more. Let him stretch!”

He doesn't look so chubby or heavy as he is pretty tall.The cutest thing about Aahlad is his eyes. He is so curious and always likes to stare at the light. I find everything cute about him. The other day Renjith was telling me about how lucky he feels to have such a beautiful baby. Unlike me my son is pretty strong. He cries only when he is hungry or if something is hurting him.
Yesterday was a bad day, during his evening sponge bath his anklet got stuck in his leg and it hurt him a lot. He cried a lot, my poor baby.  It took me a while to realize why he is crying and immediately took the anklets off... I felt so helpless till then.

Everyday Geeta ammai and Raju mama come to visit him in the morning, some days she gives him a bath and oil massage too. Yesterday, ammai made Kajal for him. Although I don’t like to put Kajal in his eyes, I let her apply it in his eyes. Must say he looks cuter with the mashi.

Tomorrow morning his dad is driving up to Trivandrum. He will be returning only after 3 days. Daddy is already feeling bad about staying away from his son for so long.

I still have a month of maternity leave left. I have to extend it till Jan end. I hope there won’t be any problem with my manager or HR. I can’t think of leaving my baby at some child care center or with someone. I don’t know what I am going to do from Feb onwards. Hope Renjith gets a long term onsite assignment soon, so that I can take a break from work and go onsite with him and the baby.

It's a BOY!!!

I am back again after a long gap.. for obvious reasons. We are blessed with a beautiful baby boy. He was born on 14th August at 1.17AM. He is more than a month old now I really wish we dint wait for 2 years after our marriage to have a baby. I am loving the motherhood phase. Renjith is so overwhelmed and happy too. We have named him Aahlad.