Week's update

Last week Pranav had his first colic pain experience ( atleast that's what we thought it was). He was absolutely inconsolable no matter what we did, the usual Dhapli sound, songs, swaddling, swinging nothing worked. He even refused to be breastfed. All of us were absolutely petrified since this was the first time we saw him in such discomfort.

Eventually as last option we gave him colicaid. Considering how uncomfortable he was, it wasn't easy to feed him the medicine either. But eventually we managed to gave him the medicine and about after 15 mins he started to feed again, and eventually slept off.

Though Pranav in recent times had got used a sleep pattern where in sleeps at around 10:30 and sleeps thru the night, inbetween wakes up twice or so, just to be fed a bit and sleeps off again. But yesterday he was in an altogether different mood. Yesterday night he had all plans to test our patience. He went without sleep until 3 :15 in the morning. Fortunately he wasn't crying much but he wasn't accepting to sleep either.He was in a kind of a playful mood. But unfortunately neither of me or my wife were obliging :-). Infact until 3:!5 yesterday night when he eventually slept there were bouts wherein both me and my wife lost our cool. Can't blame her she was really tired yesterday and she was trying to feed her continuously thinking he is hungry and that's why he isn't sleeping.

But i am glad eventually we were able to put him to sleep. Hopefully our patience levels have gone up a bit, probably a plus point of being a new parent :-)

Musical Interests

At this very young age Pranav seems to have a liking for music..

anytime if he happens to cry incessantly we pick up a Dhapli and make some sound and all of a sudden he becomes very attentive, trying to listen to the sound.. at times he even seems to forget that he was crying.. :-)

Updates ..3rd march 2012

It's been three weeks that I have stayed away from Pranav (Yes that's right, that's what we have named him). This is the longest that I have stayed away from him since his birth.

Anyhow, today he had third shot of vaccinations. My wife was telling me probably this time unlike the earlier ones he felt pain and cried quite a bit :-(.. Now a days the vaccinations list is like a hotel's tariff card, there are certain number of vaccinations to be taken, among those for some of there are multiple varieties, one of them which causes fever and the other that doesn't. Obviously it comes at price.

By the way Pranav's going to take his first flight this weekend. Goshhhh.... retrospectively I took my first flight at the age of hmm.. I guess 23 and he is taking while he is 2 months old:-).. For the curious ones we did a lot of research on whether it's safe to take an infant via flight.. Overall the findings were on a positive note. Though almost all of them advised to feed the baby while take off and landing..