As I begin this blog, I'm not sure where I will finally get with this. I envisage a day when you are old enough to understand what is being written in this blog as you read it. I envisage a day when I am no longer there to explain to you what I meant when I wrote what I did. I envisage a day when I hope your mother might still be around to throw some light on what I might have meant.
I begin this blog on the 3rd of November 2014, 11 days before your first birthday. As I sit here at the keyboard wondering how to put across the million thoughts running through my head, the one thing that comes to my mind first is whether you will ever find this blog. I don't plan to make this blog public, after all it is for your eyes only. I won't even tell your mother about it. I do plan to leave some clue behind about this blog and I also hope you will not destroy the clue (unknowingly) before you come across this blog.
It was the 14th of November 2013 and the time was about 3:45pm. That is when I got my first glimpse of you. You will have learned that I don't get nervous or edgy very easily. I am a person who doesn't have to try very hard to maintain his calm in the event of any tension. I did not burst out crying or laughing or faint. All I can say is that my heart leaped with excitement. According to your maternal grandmother, I enveloped the little bed they brought you on and hardly gave anyone else a chance to get a glimpse of you. Somewhere I heard a voice say, It's a Girl. That's when I was so surprised. I must mention that throughout Mummy's pregnancy everyone kept telling us that she was carrying a boy. The only time I ever had a doubt was during one the USGs that mummy had gone for. It was at the same hospital you were born in and I was present in the room while it was happening. As I was observing the screen, the pictures seem to tell me that you were going to be a girl. Mummy thought otherwise and since none of us were qualified enough to debate that topic, we left it at that.
So you were there on display for about a minute and then they took you back in. Mummy came out a few minutes later but she was very groggy. Later I went to see her in the room and she was asking about you and she too was surprised to hear you were a girl. There were 4 other people that day in the hospital waiting for that first peek at you. Your Nana, Dada, Uncle Bappa and Mr Sarkar. After they took you back in, I called Grandma and Grandpa and they were so happy. They came down a few days later for your baptism. I also called one of my friends Deepti. She was the only one who told me that you would be a girl. Lots of people kept calling in between since it was my birthday as well.
I finally went home to Nana and Dada's house before going home alone. The year had begun!
It was the 14th of November 2013 and the time was about 3:45pm. That is when I got my first glimpse of you. You will have learned that I don't get nervous or edgy very easily. I am a person who doesn't have to try very hard to maintain his calm in the event of any tension. I did not burst out crying or laughing or faint. All I can say is that my heart leaped with excitement. According to your maternal grandmother, I enveloped the little bed they brought you on and hardly gave anyone else a chance to get a glimpse of you. Somewhere I heard a voice say, It's a Girl. That's when I was so surprised. I must mention that throughout Mummy's pregnancy everyone kept telling us that she was carrying a boy. The only time I ever had a doubt was during one the USGs that mummy had gone for. It was at the same hospital you were born in and I was present in the room while it was happening. As I was observing the screen, the pictures seem to tell me that you were going to be a girl. Mummy thought otherwise and since none of us were qualified enough to debate that topic, we left it at that.
So you were there on display for about a minute and then they took you back in. Mummy came out a few minutes later but she was very groggy. Later I went to see her in the room and she was asking about you and she too was surprised to hear you were a girl. There were 4 other people that day in the hospital waiting for that first peek at you. Your Nana, Dada, Uncle Bappa and Mr Sarkar. After they took you back in, I called Grandma and Grandpa and they were so happy. They came down a few days later for your baptism. I also called one of my friends Deepti. She was the only one who told me that you would be a girl. Lots of people kept calling in between since it was my birthday as well.
I finally went home to Nana and Dada's house before going home alone. The year had begun!
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