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Never too early to learn...!

Babies are always ready to learn from the time of their birth. They are born to learn. As it says, a ray of hope... when a child is born. I would say a golden ray of hope for every parent to see his child learning earlier. Crying and the suckling milk are their born abilities. Only few weeks passby sleeping and they start to show their amazing charactersitic of learning. Children are born as a patch of clay which needs to shape perfectly by their parents. The level of learning depends on the level of their perception and on how the respective parents handle deal with this. Besides things like clapping, blinking and few more, they are always in get-set-go position to learn more in an advanced way. Generally we allow our children to learn only at the age of 3 or 4. However our kids are fast learners than we think they are.

just starting with the writing board

I realized Sambhavya's willingness to learn when he was 8-month-old. Like other babies my boy also loves to listen and watch nursery rhymes/songs. His first favorite one is "row row row your boat...." and I love the way he moves his head right and left in the rhythm. Likewise, there are many such rhymes he loves. He claps his hands from the age of 7-month-old. Smiles and shows his teeth upon asking. He says baba (dad), momma(y), dada (brother) words which are of same patterns and easy to pronounce. He acts as if he understands what we say and ask him to do, pretends as if he wants to get into the depth of what we say. However utters only "unnn...." or "ummm..." sounds in reply when we talk to him. Its entertaining as well as exciting for us to see our baby's growing enthusiasm of learning.

its his play time with colors

I start searching for educating kids at early age. I made few flashcards on my own in a word document and start teaching my boy. Surprisingly, he understands few words (head, nose, and eye) at the beginning, he touches these parts seeing them on cards. The first word he read is "baby" whether its caps or small letter. He reads it as "bee-bee". OMG... cudn't believe it he reads it at the age of 14-month. It inspired me alot and I keep surfing internet for more techniques to teach babies at early age. I found myriads of sites and posts on early education. Few are quite practicable and easy to start at home without any high-fi technologies.

Today my baby is 20-month-old and he reads most of the alphabets. He recognizes few animals and few animal sounds. He understands things when I talk to him. He helps me in some ways. Though he is at the age of two he is amazing in many ways.

now its numbers' turn

Regular oil massage !

Bringing home our loved one..!

On Jan-4-2009, at about 2 p.m. We reach home and here is his Dee Auntie welcoming home with some traditional way. Baby is sleeping with comfort in my arms. The floods of visitors come to see the new one. He keeps sleeping around the clock provided his meals on time and nappies changed in need. From relatives to friends and neighbours. We celebrated his nwaran with a small puja at home on the 11th day of his birth with few guets. For the first time Samir and Panditji take him out to expose directly under ther sun. He tried to move inside his blanket perhaps trying to say, "Dad the sunlight is strong for a newborn like me...". Hehe... as if understood, baby is now inside the house and sleeping comfortably in his cribe.

Same routine carried on everyday. Giving him a bath, oil massage, sunbath, milk and nappies on time. He tries to express his demands with his cries which is the most precise things for us. The smooth and sound music playing soothes him from any discomforts he is having. He has been used to of this routine. Occasional visits by the visitors make him happier. From the very newborn he enjoys welcoming visitors.

Big Day...!

My big day is Jan 1, 2009 (Thursday) and the greatest time is 17:37 p.m. (S'pore time).

Jan-1-09 at 9:15 hours in the morning we are again in the labour suite with Dr. Steven, Chief of Delivery Unit. We are discussing on my zero progress of labour though there are few contraction again and again but its irregular. It is really getting tideous, we have been waiting for two consecutive days and nights. So we are now upto make a strong decision of bringing the baby out on his given date. Doc is also okay with that though he agreed hesitantly. He explained on aftermaths of going for CS for which we are already prepared. As per his suggestion I am undergone two more session of graphic observation of my contraction. He finds same so he finally signed for the CS.

At 17 hours, I am ready for the procedure. Nurse takes me to the OT. At the main entrance one of the staffs from OT takes all the details of tests from the ward. She puts an OT dress on me and takes the stretcher towards the procedure table. Here am now in the expert hands of Dr. Wendy as anesthetist with her assistants and the surgical team. After anesthesia, am under procedure. I could only hear the bubbling sounds and two medical personnels are talking to me. Am so excited to see the new one. After few minutes, I hear Dr. Wendy's voice, "Ruma your baby is out at 17:37 hours, he weighs 3765 gm." "Can I see him?", was my reply and in a few minutes a nurse brought him to me. I could only kiss him while I desire to take him in my hands. Now she takes him to meet his Dad who is waiting outside the OT room. One of the staff tells me everything goes smooth and well and in a couple of minutes they will send me to ward. But before leaving I want to thank the surgeon operated me. Upon my request there I see a man in OT outfit with his mask and cap. I thanked me from the core of my heart. He answered, "Congratulations and happy anniversary." I am quite surprised and I asked him to remove his cap and mask. There he is... none other than Dr. Steven himself. We told him that my due date given by Dr. Goh coincides our Love Anniversary. After that a nurse took me out to postoperative ward. In half an hour when they are satisfied with my progress they send me to the ward. Here is my husband waiting to see his wifeeee. There I feel the sweetest, loveliest and warmest caress on my head with a husky whisper blowing in my left ear, "Love you...!"

The biggest and the greatest day for the three of us (including our newly born son, Sambhavya).