It’s
been more than 20 days that I’m thinking of writing on this topic. Finally I
think I’m able to manage it tonight!
It’s
been about past 4-5 months that I’ve been hearing all news of various ‘would be
moms’ from here & there from my relatives or friends. My own sister
delivered a baby boy on June 14th. Immediately on the next day,
i.e., on June 15th, another friend of mine who was in Vashi for her delivery
got a baby boy. About a month before she had her prince, one of my friends, who
stays in the same building where I stay, delivered a twin – a boy & a girl.
My sister’s friend since school days got a baby boy too. Some of the relative’s
son became a father of a sweet girl sometime in May, one of my colleagues
became a mama too in 1st week of June, a couple of news I heard from
my parents was about the same. I heard/saw not less than about 12-13 babies
born in last couple of months. Baby here… baby there…. Baby baby everywhere!
I’m
sure people must be feeling more than happy to have a cute baby at home…
especially those who become parents for the first time in their lives alongwith
their ‘proud’ parents as grandparents. Observing the new born prince or
princess doing all innocent acts is fun in itself. One hardly notices how much
time is spent watching those funny acts. The overall process of having milk,
trying to understand things that people keep on saying, warm massage, bath
& above all the dramatic/melodramatic expressions during ‘pee & potty’
scenes and diapers changing activity.
I
always wonder what babies must be thinking when they stare at some person. I
don’t think any scientist or psychologist will be able to invent any such
machine or device that would measure the intensity of thoughts in a baby’s mind.
I
still remember seeing my sister growing up about 25 years ago & now it’s
time to see her son growing up. Accepting wishes from relatives & friends
for being ‘Mama’ is fun… as it comes without any efforts. But I feel happy
about it. I’ll be even happier to know that all babies mentioned above will
someday have their babies… and I’m sure today’s new parents will give me the
news of becoming grandparents when I’ll be in my late 70’s. I will certainly wait for those moments!
- Abhijit