Dear Baby,
Yesterday was one of the most important days of our life. It was the first time we saw you when your mom got her first scan done and our it was an overwhelming feeling of joy for us. We saw your hearbeat and your whole form not bigger than length of my finger. It also gave us great relief and heave of sigh for the reasons explained below.
Just a day before we had a meet up with Dr.Shobha, a well known close family doctor and a close associate of Lakshmi Pedamma. Speaking with doctor on phone earlier day, we have fixed the appointment around 10:30 A.M at her home in Banjara Hills. Finding the address proved to a problem thanks to bizarre numbering system. Once we were inside, we saw that doctor was in hurry as she got one more urgent appointment but she agreed to have a quick once over. She prescribed some tests that needs to be done first hand before she can give more prognosis. Then came the bombshell. She expressed bit of shock and told in no uncertain terms that we had come bit late and should have been more cautious. Your mom has hyper-thyroid and it seems for such patients, checkup is best recommended as soon as pregnancy is detected. When everything was done and we were about to leave she asked to us to meet up again on coming Monday along with the reports.
It was time to go to office and was the beginning of the waterworks for the day. Your mom broke down and was crying profusely. Hearing that we have delayed the consultation and we should have come much early, it hurt her really bad with feeling of extreme guilt and sadness. Your avva tried to pacify her but didn't really quell the fears. All the way to her office she remained inconsolable. I even tried to reach her through phone after I reached but she wasn't willing to lend a ear. I phoned mom and asked her to get consult the our family's best trusted doctor of all - Lakshmi Pedamma herself to get the opinion. It was your Jaijayya who ōgot to her first by calling at the hospital and got back to me telling me that everything is fine, the fears were highly unwarranted. Thing is your mom has around 25mcg dosage, which, is a negligible amount and it is only at higher levels that it may pose problem for baby. Secondly, since she has been regularly having regular dosage everyday and no need of panic. On top of all this, your Jaijayya also got second opinion to validate the findings and as they say "all is well".
That brings us to the closure of "heaving a sigh of relief" and as they say "all is well". The silver lining of all the above is that we decided to break the omerta and spread the news of joy, the news that your mom is pregnant. It spread like fire and congratulatory messages started pouring in. Please note this is still in the closed boundary of family and yet to spread to friends.
Resolutions, Resolves and Targets -
Gautam bava (I actually don't know what his actual relation is) rightly said yesterday, the day father gets in touch with reality of owning the baby, is when he holds the baby in the hands. I could not have put it better. The only thoughts running in my mind are -
1. To bit fit and healthy - as I told before I started jogging everyday.
2. To take very good care of your mom - to this I would say I may have met half way mark.
Your avva was at Guntur for almost 3 weeks starting Feb 1st to Feb 20th. This gave me the ample opportunity to showcase and share responsibility and lessen the work for your mom. Now that all the days have passed I can say I lent helping hand in cutting vegetables and that's it. Your Ammamma was very helpful and provided us with batters of idli & dosa, different chutneys, different kinds of dry fruits, methi parathas, chapatis and what not. Enough to give some days of respite to your mom. Fruits were regular in the menu.
More to follow..
Lovingly,
Nanna
Yesterday was one of the most important days of our life. It was the first time we saw you when your mom got her first scan done and our it was an overwhelming feeling of joy for us. We saw your hearbeat and your whole form not bigger than length of my finger. It also gave us great relief and heave of sigh for the reasons explained below.
Just a day before we had a meet up with Dr.Shobha, a well known close family doctor and a close associate of Lakshmi Pedamma. Speaking with doctor on phone earlier day, we have fixed the appointment around 10:30 A.M at her home in Banjara Hills. Finding the address proved to a problem thanks to bizarre numbering system. Once we were inside, we saw that doctor was in hurry as she got one more urgent appointment but she agreed to have a quick once over. She prescribed some tests that needs to be done first hand before she can give more prognosis. Then came the bombshell. She expressed bit of shock and told in no uncertain terms that we had come bit late and should have been more cautious. Your mom has hyper-thyroid and it seems for such patients, checkup is best recommended as soon as pregnancy is detected. When everything was done and we were about to leave she asked to us to meet up again on coming Monday along with the reports.
It was time to go to office and was the beginning of the waterworks for the day. Your mom broke down and was crying profusely. Hearing that we have delayed the consultation and we should have come much early, it hurt her really bad with feeling of extreme guilt and sadness. Your avva tried to pacify her but didn't really quell the fears. All the way to her office she remained inconsolable. I even tried to reach her through phone after I reached but she wasn't willing to lend a ear. I phoned mom and asked her to get consult the our family's best trusted doctor of all - Lakshmi Pedamma herself to get the opinion. It was your Jaijayya who ōgot to her first by calling at the hospital and got back to me telling me that everything is fine, the fears were highly unwarranted. Thing is your mom has around 25mcg dosage, which, is a negligible amount and it is only at higher levels that it may pose problem for baby. Secondly, since she has been regularly having regular dosage everyday and no need of panic. On top of all this, your Jaijayya also got second opinion to validate the findings and as they say "all is well".
That brings us to the closure of "heaving a sigh of relief" and as they say "all is well". The silver lining of all the above is that we decided to break the omerta and spread the news of joy, the news that your mom is pregnant. It spread like fire and congratulatory messages started pouring in. Please note this is still in the closed boundary of family and yet to spread to friends.
Resolutions, Resolves and Targets -
Gautam bava (I actually don't know what his actual relation is) rightly said yesterday, the day father gets in touch with reality of owning the baby, is when he holds the baby in the hands. I could not have put it better. The only thoughts running in my mind are -
1. To bit fit and healthy - as I told before I started jogging everyday.
2. To take very good care of your mom - to this I would say I may have met half way mark.
Your avva was at Guntur for almost 3 weeks starting Feb 1st to Feb 20th. This gave me the ample opportunity to showcase and share responsibility and lessen the work for your mom. Now that all the days have passed I can say I lent helping hand in cutting vegetables and that's it. Your Ammamma was very helpful and provided us with batters of idli & dosa, different chutneys, different kinds of dry fruits, methi parathas, chapatis and what not. Enough to give some days of respite to your mom. Fruits were regular in the menu.
More to follow..
Lovingly,
Nanna
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