Bags are Packed, Crib is Out

We are now all set and on the home stretch. The bags are packed as you can see; one for labour, one for post-partum and six little goody bags for the doctor and nurses. The other photo shows the last minute add-on list for the bags and our "Peanut Exit Plan" pasted on the tv cabinet door in our bedroom. With all this, hopefully we won't forget anything when the moment comes to head to hospital. It's now just a matter of waiting for the bell to ring in round 1! So maybe I shouldn't look at what lies ahead as a gruelling boxing match, but I am told you sometimes do end up looking like a boxer at the end of the process, because your face goes black and blue from pushing with your face as much as with your you know what. :-) Ammi arrives tomorrow and then we'll really be set. Thaththi is only due on 28 February, but I think he will be most happy if he can arrive in time to say hi to his nicely cleaned up grandson, rather than having to go through the waiting room jitters while Peanut meanders down the birth canal. The next doctor's appointment is on Friday. At the last appointment, Dr Marci said that our baby is a "low rider" and that hopefully, I won't have to push for too long since he is already about to fall out. :-)

I can't believe the nine months have gone by so quickly. It really feels like yesterday that we were calling around and telling everyone the news about me being pregnant. Now we are on the cusp of becoming parents. It's been such a fantastic, life altering experience so far and I can only imagine how much more it will be so once Peanut is actually with us. Roshan and I have both come to realise (in a real sense as opposed to an abstract sense) just how miraculous and amazing this whole experience is and how perfectly it has been engineered. I find it fascinating that till Peanut is out in this world, he would have never taken a breath of air, but that from the moment he arrives, he can no longer live the way he has been living for the last nine months - swimming around in fluid like a little fish.

So that's all for the moment. It's a cold, cold day here and now I need to get myself a cup of tea. And Roshan just called to say he's on the way home. We're having a date night tonight at a new restaurant we haven't tried. It will be the last time, for a long time, that it will be just the two of us, alone.