one day left to live series - 6 months and 28 days

Well I had been trying to get Sripathi to sleep well and for this I was checking out sleep therapy and could not find anything on such lines. And probably a week back while I was browsing Amazon.com I found a book called the 90 minute baby sleep program. I first checked the number of pages, because #1 I cannot spend too much time to read and understand stuff when I could possibly be putting Sripathi to sleep. And the book fared well on that aspect at 184 pages. And next was the reviews and the book seemed to impress me with several rave reviews. So i decided to give it a try and bought it. When i saw the order details on my mail it read that the book would arrive only in the second week of June and i sort of forgot about it.

And suddenly yesterday evening i saw this small book lying on the table, Aravind had checked the mailbox and had curiously opened the surprise package. I was pleasantly happy looking at the size of the book i could probably finish it while Sripathi takes a couple of naps. And that's exactly what I did today apart from checking the fight status online. Yes looks like what the author says about trying to read the signs when the baby feels sleepy which is around 90 minutes from his last nap. So I'll be following the method provided in the book and hope that Sripathi gets sufficient nap and sleep time. Sripathi had a several naps during the day, i was already trying to implement what i was reading. If this works well i would share it with other new moms i know. Probably share the book, its better to read than take my word for it. Moreover the author has done an excellent job in trying to allocate a complete chapter for all the weird questions that could come up. And most of the questions where similar or exactly same as the one running in my mind. And i checked out the author Polly Moore's website and she has a section where we can post questions and she answers them.

And yes my mother has arrived safely. She was all smiles when she came in and saw Sripathi. She is now resting well to make sure she does not have a jet lag.

one day left to live series - 6 months and 14 days

Sripathi did all his exercises well today, especially the ones that involve him to sit side ways. It was very difficult in the beginning and now he's getting the hang of it. And he had 2 good naps today. He was happily napping this morning when the coordinator Erin from Lighthouse, the visual therapy institute arrived. Since it was only a paper work session, Sripathi's nap went uninterrupted. Erin told me that the visual therapist would call us in less than 2 weeks and schedule an appointment to meet Sripathi.

Later in the afternoon he had another good nap though he woke in between it was not too hard for him to get back. And while he was napping there was yet another visitor. Though we knew this visitor was on his way, we never knew when he would knock at our doors. So who is this visitor? we had ordered a walking and barking Pluto for Sripathi, that was the mother's day gift from me to Sripathi. This toy is recommended for ages 3 and up but i still went ahead and bought it because Sripathi loves to hear barks. Funny right, but sometimes when he fusses to take his medication, i bark and yap like a puppy and he immediately smiles.


When we showed him his new friend, Sripathi didn't acknowledge but he didn't reject it altogether. So i think he'll grow to like his Pluto. Here is a picture of Pluto, will share a picture of Sripathi and Pluto once they start bonding :)

one day left to live series - 6 months and 10 days

Sripathi's nap time troubles are quite the same, but at least we are attempting to change. He did take a short nap at 10:00 am but the actually afternoon nap was very disturbed. Today for mother's day I gave him an ounce of organic applesauce. He seemed to like it, but later in the evening at around 8:00 pm he crying so badly. We realized that it was probably because he could not properly digest the applesauce or he was just plain gassy. Whatever now I'm a little concerned about trying to give him another spoon of applesauce.

But one good part is we have an appointment with him pediatrician tomorrow that we I'm glad that she can check on him to make sure everything is alright.

"Take nothing for granted in a second it can all be gone"

Happy Mother's Day

My first mother's day.
We had a nice satsang at home. I made a lousy apple-banana cake. I'm wearing a sari that my mom-in-law gifted me for my birthday. Sripathi is wearing the black outfit that I had sewed him yesterday :) And that was one noisy photo session to make sure Sripathi gives a smile.


"Take nothing for granted in a second it can all be gone"

one day left to live series - 6 months and 9 days

After a meltdown the previous evening and the following morning, i decided to bring a change before i lose it all. Moreover this is my first Mother's day. Happy Mother's day to me.

Sripathi is now 6 months and 9 days old. Its because of this soul that I'm changing myself and my life and I'm glad. He has been having an extremely hard time getting to sleep at night leave alone the worst part of getting an afternoon nap. But surprisingly today was a just amazing. He could actually catch up on some nap time without me having to rock him all along. He slept beside me for almost 3 hours, although he did wake up once in between but was able to get back to sleep in less than 20 minutes. I'm not going to prove myself with a photograph of a sleeping Sripathi with the date and time stamped on, as its against our culture to click pictures of a sleeping baby.

And I cannot believe myself that I actually hand sewed an outfit for Sripathi in less than 2 hours. I probably got all that energy just watching him sleep. Though I knit, this is the first time I have sewed anything.

And to mark the big change in my perspective, I decided to take him out for something fun. So off we went to Bruster's for Ice cream. And no I didn't feed my 6 month old any ice cream.

Also as part of the change, my dear husband will be sleeping along with Sripathi every night and will come to get me from the couch when he wakes up to be nursed.
And this is the time I would get to blog.


"Take nothing for granted in a second it can all be gone"