My Lady of the Lantern

A friend ( as in a really close friend ) recently revealed to me her plans for trying for kid #2. She asked me to get ready for good news soon enough. She got married in 2005 ( almost two years after me ). She had thyroid issues and yet managed to deliver her first in January 2008. She was diagnosed with PCOS after that. I wonder how quickly she would be able to successfully leap over that medical condition as well. It’s like running a 200 metre hurdle sprint, where one injured horse is painfully still making its way to the start line, and the other injured horse has already covered 100 metres and it is but obvious as to which of the horses may win. In these past three days, I have managed to also come to know of a 16 week mark touched by a mildly-non-favourite-ex-colleague of mine. As I process more and more and more pregnancies, it feels like the angel in me is receding. I am also aware of how differently I can treat pregnancies of friends and uh-foes. If I do not reveal my insecurit...

I promise that my post is not as classy as the brilliant title. I am through with the Wedding 2, and am about to depart tonight for my current-abode city. You know what happens when you are in a swarm of people...close, not-close, too-close, about-to-get-close, were-close, want-to-be-close, not-close-but-prying-close, moles. Oh, so you have been married how many years now? Six? Okay. And any Baba, Baby? *** Oh, so she is your niece. She is your SIL's daughter. Oh, but are you not the No. 2 DIL? Your SIL is No. 3 no? *** What girl? You are not planning or what? Then came another pearl. The next day of the wedding, my eldest BIL was lamenting that none of the brothers get together now like they once used to. With that thought, he said Oh come on, we must planning something soon, before these two (pointing at the newly-weds) get into the queue(i.e. have a baby on the way)... I was sitting there in the group and it struck that I was not counted in the likely soon-visitors of Babyland. ...

Hey Mom, did they go for a PCT? ...mother turning around... Who Who? ...me pointing fingers... These Beggars. ...a family of streetdwellers, oldest less than 8 years old and youngest a few months old; four-five kids; two adult males, two adult females. No Response. ------------------------------------------------------------- Have you ever wondered why sperm count is such a hyped up number when the trophy sperm needs to be just one? Why God has so many of them swimming towards the subway when it will be just one in a million that may catch the train? ^WiseGuy^

This is a collection of kids – recent entrants to my environs. And each one of them is a charmer. Someday, I will post my own success story as well. //Picture removed to protect privacy DJ is a cool guy! (Literally)… he is my cousin’s son and is in the US. By far, I still do not have a one to one interaction with him. //Picture removed to protect privacy She is my sis-in-law’s daughter, and this photo of hers is when she was just a couple of hours old. Now she is almost seven months and has really evolved facial features //Picture removed to protect privacy And this is a favourite snap of a colleague’s son. He has very Pahadi (mountain-dwellers) looks, obvious from his lineage. His mom has posted a lot of snaps of him on Orkut but this is the one I like the best. //Picture removed to protect privacy C is the son of a very close friend. Again, this picture of his is taken when he was a couple of hours old. C is very affable, as reported by my mother who was the doctor who delivered him...

Case I: W got married and within three months she came to know that she had conceived. Why have a kid so early in marriage and for this simple reason she had the baby aborted. Later she conceived again and lost the baby in the fifth month. She conceived again and had a normal delivery. As of today, she is the proud mother of two daughters.[It is also rumored that she had found out that she was pregnant four months prior to her wedding and she and her fiance had disposed off the baby for the fear of bringing shame to their respective families.] Case II: W got married and was detected with a fibroid. Around the same time, she conceived and on some adverse opinion from her doctor had an MTP. A second opinion post-MTP concluded that she actually did not need the MTP(!). Second time she became pregnant, she delivered a healthy baby boy. Power of Contraception be damned, she conceived again within two years, which she promptly got terminated. Case III: W got married and because of lack...