I still remember that it was the Sunday after April Fool's Day, on the 5th of April. When I awoke that morning at around 6 a.m., I had a feeling that something had changed. I had been feeling different for a few weeks already and felt that it was right to finally test. So at 6 a.m., I tested and the result brought tears of joy to my eyes.
At that moment, when I realized that I was carrying our baby, the feeling was inexplicable. My husband and I had been trying for a baby for some time and this moment just made the wait so worthwhile. It was around 3.30 a.m. in India at that point in time, when I called my husband to tell him the news. His excitement was uncontrollable as well and he said that he tossed and turned around in bed, unable to return back to his slumber.
This was the moment that we found out about our biggest blessing - a symbol of our love and union and the moment when we transit from being 2 people to a family. Our small, loving family of three. We start to envision how we will pass down values to our child, how we will bring up our child to be a loving, compassionate human being as well as how we will develop ourselves as parents.
Our baby is just the size of a sesame seed at this point in time and we marvel at how something this tiny would eventually grow into a human being. The feeling of being a vessel for the growth of our child both thrills me and makes me nervous. But whatever it is, this tiny human being will be completely dependent on me for its development for 40 weeks!
Whatever challenges that are to come, I embrace. Just as we embrace this news with tears in our eyes and just as we embrace our child with love in our hearts. Thank you God for this blessing of joy.
At that moment, when I realized that I was carrying our baby, the feeling was inexplicable. My husband and I had been trying for a baby for some time and this moment just made the wait so worthwhile. It was around 3.30 a.m. in India at that point in time, when I called my husband to tell him the news. His excitement was uncontrollable as well and he said that he tossed and turned around in bed, unable to return back to his slumber.
This was the moment that we found out about our biggest blessing - a symbol of our love and union and the moment when we transit from being 2 people to a family. Our small, loving family of three. We start to envision how we will pass down values to our child, how we will bring up our child to be a loving, compassionate human being as well as how we will develop ourselves as parents.
Our baby is just the size of a sesame seed at this point in time and we marvel at how something this tiny would eventually grow into a human being. The feeling of being a vessel for the growth of our child both thrills me and makes me nervous. But whatever it is, this tiny human being will be completely dependent on me for its development for 40 weeks!
Whatever challenges that are to come, I embrace. Just as we embrace this news with tears in our eyes and just as we embrace our child with love in our hearts. Thank you God for this blessing of joy.
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