Our Term at Swades is almost coming to an end. The nine of us together had a lot of fun organizing all the events. Actually the tough part was not to organize the events but to have a meeting and plan out our events.
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An Open Letter to mommies with ‘aaya’
According to experts and analysts of the day, India is facing an unprecedented abundance of ‘aayas‘. And only those who do not have one know how lucky you gals are to have one.
I am a working girl (I don’t like to call myself a woman yet). I have a nanny who comes home to take care of R from 9 to 5 post which she is our responsibility. We have our hands full till the time she goes to bed. Unfortunately her bed time coincides with ours. Late …very late! But I had learned to adjust with my life because I was away from the concept of ‘aaya‘. These sweet, God-sent humans are a blessing for any new mom who is excited about parenting but does not know how many miles you would have to run behind your child till she goes to school (let me assume I am running only till then). The other amusing trait of this Supreme being is that any baby girl will be addressed ‘baby‘ and baby boy will go as ‘baba‘. Learn the importance of investing on your children’s future here on this article.
I never thought of it till I came to India with my 6 month old. She was an angel and the love from all my loved ones has turned her into a brat.
Here in India from the time I get up till the time she hits the bed for her naps, we are together. With her crawling around the house, I am shadowing her all the time . All the more since she loves to taste everything from the ground. I don’t know what her affinity is with small, tiny or sharp objects. I have to be on the lookout for everything that comes in the way of her mouth. One thing these babies don’t understand is boundaries….Arghh!! They don’t know that the bed is only 7 ft by 7 ft after which if they crawl they will fall. They think they can crawl in the air … Seriously baby!!! You were a seven pounder and not a feather my love!! Where the heck is my ‘aaya‘ for my ‘baby‘ to stand guard? I wish my ears could hear ‘baby isko muh mein nahin daalte hain, baby yeh aap nahin kha sakte hain‘
There was a time where we could spend the entire weekend doing movie marathons at home and in the theaters. We were cinephiles. Despite our intense love for films, ‘Happy New Year’ was the first movie of the year in the theatre. This should already tell how this X and Y chromosome donors have been busy raising this brat. Oh you blessed mommies, May God Bless your ‘aayas‘.
My hands have never managed to look so masculine. Every time there is a conflict between home and parlor, home wins. Every time there is a conflict between mommy’s manicure or R’s filing of the nails, she wins. I wish you knew the perils involved in filing and cutting your little one’s nails.
Hey you ‘aayites‘ do you know how much the diaper weighs if you change it every 4 hours? Do you know that there are poop mishaps where you and your baby are both drenched in it? You ‘saas bahu‘ soap socialites will never know what a ‘baby poop’ socialite is… Alas!!! A baby poop social is where every new parent only talks about baby poop type, color and texture.
Oh and last but not the least you party socialites can hang out in one with your tots and their au pair while we baby huggers tug along with them and their diaper bags, holding them on one side and a bottle of milk on the other and enjoying your conversation of your next travel plans to Milan only because you want a break from your baby to spend some quality time with your husband…. really… what are you snorting lady?
It is 2 am in the morning and she is sleeping next to me so peacefully and there is nothing better than looking at your sleeping baby and suppressing the urge to wake her up because you know once she is up, the ‘aaya’ in you will have to get to work.
PS: All the characters that I am trying to talk about are fictitious and bear no resemblance to any person living or dead. This is just my frustration and jealousy with the moms who have help. I don’t doubt your existence as a mother.
Burp Shurp!!
There is a regular way to burp a child and then there is Priyendra’s way of burping Radha. He was taught to burp her like this in the NICU by the nurses. He obediently followed what they said and believe it or not it never failed.
Stroller and Car Seat Day
This was a day when I went through a roller coster ride of emotions since I did not want to get rid of my bug and there was a slight possibility that it might happen.
Priyendra and I want to keep the bug for as long as possible. He likes it because he thinks it suits me and I like it because I feel close to it and people associate me with it. Also we wanted to do one Yosemite trip with Radha in her car seat for which I learned you must be properly restrained while the vehicle is moving to comply with the law. I know all of this sounds really lofty but there is no harm in thinking about such plans 
After delaying the stroller shopping for a bit, we decided to go and explore options. We were pretty sure of getting a Chicco light weight stroller. We went into the store planning to explore more options but we came out with despair since there was only one stroller that would fit into the trunk of the beetle. This was a city mini GT. This stroller would fit any car seat.
When talking about babies on board, if the child is rear facing (specially in rear-end car accidents), the crash forces are distributed along the entire body (head, neck and back). The child is cocooned by the car seat shell and the head moves with the seat – reducing the risk for neck and spinal injury.
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We were then told about the Quinny stroller which might fit in ‘Shanno’, the bug. 
Quinny fits well into the car but the Beetle turns from 4 seater to a 3 seater vehicle, when looking to keep well maintained your family car, use this link to find the perfect rally wheels c10 found at Shoppok. Let us wait and see if Shanno stays with us for long now. We are waiting for you to sit in the Quinny, Radha!
Radha on the Dance floor :)
Yes..the little one is kicking now. I felt a very feeble kick on Diwali eve (2nd Nov, 2013) but yesterday she was all over dancing and kicking. Priyendra tried to feel one too but it was a weak one for him. Something very strange happened when we were both trying to feel her move, we think we felt her feet on the left side of the stomach. Priyendra kept feeling it but I had a very weird feeling after touching it.
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20th week Ultrasound
I must say I was a little nervous before this one. I had not seen my doctor for the last 3 weeks and Radha had not started kicking by then. I had no feedback how she was doing. But seeing her suck her thumb, open her mouth and put her hands on her face like Manoj Kumar relieved me so much.
In the ultrasound we saw her brain, her kidneys, her stomach, feet, hands and all four chambers of the heart. We also saw blood pumping into them. The radiologist showed us how the blood was going through the umbilical cord too. It was all very magical.
I told her that I had not started to feel the kicks yet and she said because I had anterior placenta which in lay man terms means that Radha had taken a backseat and her kicks would not be felt very soon.
She also showed us on my stomach where all Radha could move. She was breech then.
I think now I consider her to be so REAL
Benefits of Golf
Golf teaches patience, tolerance, dedication and perseverance. It teaches the patience to wait for an opponent’s mistakes and the tolerance to not be happy with what you can do yourself. You learn patience from the game of golf, and you learn to appreciate the good and the bad as part of the game. It teaches patience and patience in itself. Golf teaches patience by not making the first move. It teaches patience by playing in a manner that is consistent with your skills and the opponent’s. The game of golf gives you the opportunity to try your best. The game of golf helps you see where you can improve on your game. Golf teaches the ability to deal with disappointment. It teaches the ability to make the most of your opportunities, so if you want to improve at golf, you should get the best launch monitors from this company which have different offers for this.
And all that is why the best course architects of all time are able to design courses in ways that are perfectly conducive to our own needs.
The most important lessons in golf are learned from experience. Playing on a course, watching someone play and betting on them on sites like 겜블시티, taking lessons at a course, playing at a pro course, playing with an experienced friend all these things have their own value.
The most valuable thing about a golf course is its relationship with the golfing experience, the people playing golf on that course, and the golfing community. The best way to learn something is by doing it. You must take an interest in the people and things around you, and then you must see if the game you are playing has a purpose, similar as if you’re going to do some betting online in sports like golf or others. You must observe and learn from your peers and the people you are playing with, and see if what you do is having any real effect.
If you are having a problem, take it up with the game, because that’s how to get improvement. If you are having success, you may have a problem with the game itself, not with you. This is often the case with learning, because you may have been trying something for a long time and not succeeding, and you will almost certainly be getting better if you talk to the people you play with.
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The best way to communicate, then, is to start having conversations about the game with other people. This is especially true for newer players who may not have much experience with other games, so a new player might be better off asking their friends if they’ve played it, or perhaps asking someone at their local game store if they have any demo copies. Then it’s up to you to try and get their feedback. If you have want to relax after a tiring day of swinging your golf clubs, you can play games like 올레벳.
If it turns out that you have problems with the game that you didn’t anticipate, then you’re just going to have to work out the problems with your own game.
To that end, I’d recommend that you do your own playtesting. Go through your game collection, read through the rules. Write down the problems that you come up with while playing the game. Once you’ve got a good list of issues, then you should write a post about your thoughts about the game.
If you have a game that you’re really into like perhaps playing with your children in one of the best DIY wooden playhouse kits, make sure that you’re going to share it with your friends. Even if you’ve never played the game before, you will learn a lot about it and you may see some of your friends enjoying it as well.
So let’s get back to the game of Star Realms, the game I just talked about! The question I ask my players is this: do you think the game is fun? Do you think it has a good play time, a good time playing, a good
Radha
It is a girl guys!!!! It is going to be grey and pink now I had thought of themes and I have a few bookmarked pages on how I want Radha’s nook to look like. Hopefully I can get all the things done soon so that I can enjoy her nook before she arrives
Priyendra has been all excited. He is already imagining Radha with a guitar and a little punk-ish :):)
Waiting on Harmony Test…
We got our DNA Harmony test done on the 16th and we were to get the results in 7 days. We are still waiting on the results!!!
I called up the clinic on 24th and they told me that they have not received the results. So I called up Labcorp and they said they just had an order for a blood test and did not receive any order for the Harmony test. I called up the clinic back and the receptionist said ” Oh! I do see that the Submit button for your order was not clicked”. Now this is quite sad that the office staff does not do their work professionally. Last year too they gave me problems with the test results and I had to go back and forth between the lab and the clinic and it turned out that the fax machine at the clinic was not working. So one party would send the result but the other one would not receive it. Now how ridiculous is this!
Yesterday I called the lab again to find out if they had received the order from the clinic or not. The kind and patient lady told me that they had sent the results to the clinic on the 17th itself. Ohh no!!! I cannot deal with the two parties now. She confirmed if their fax was working or not. I would have called the clinic again but I told her about the situation that how on Tuesday someone said that they had not received the order for a Harmony Test. She kept me on hold for about 20 minutes and came back saying ” Aah!!! I see yours is going to be a more specialized test and it will take about 8-10 business days. We should sent the results back to the clinic by 30th.”
It is in vain to get upset with the staff from either the clinic or the lab. The best thing is to wait and I have become good at that seems like!
Bhalla ka Halla…Masha Allah!!
We went in for our second appointment today (16th Sept) to hear the heart beat. The doctor took about 20 seconds to find the heart beat and all through those 20 seconds I was not beating most likely and then I saw him smile and murmur here it is
It sounded more like a table fan working. Priyendra joked that Surabhi could use this as Spinning 4
We recorded the heartbeat. We also got an anti-oxidant analysis done. Apparently this is a very new test which was introduced on Dr. Oz and tests the level of anti oxidants in the mothers body. If it is less then they give you supplements for the next few months. I was in a reasonable range but the test professional pushed me to take supplements. We anyhow declined since we thought it was not needed as I was having 3-4 servings of fruits and vegetables during the day.
Today we also got the DNA test done and unfortunately I had to give away some more of my blood for the testing. I have given away a lot of my valuable blood for so many tests now. So this time again I saw the needle sucking up my blood to get some genetic testing done and also to know the gender of the baby
Yes I will know the gender by next week. Another post to soon follow