An SMS message read “ Cricket tomorrow @ 6 AM “ and left me
thinking – should I ?
I thought for a while before responding mostly “Mostly no”
My wify is @ hospital for her delivery and I am accompanying
her on – pre delivery walk to induce the labor pain while receiving and
responding the above SMS. I don’t know how many of you would have given a
thought before responding to such a SMS and how many ( read men) would have
said “Yes” to that. After couple of trial outs of ‘Inducing pain’ pil – our
doctor gave us couple of rest days and I resumed my office regime and hence
this blog entry!
As this has been a lean
period with projects ( Read – not trying too much to get into a project after 2
years of back to back fire shell projects and the pre-dad scare) every now and
then we ( the newly acquired group) get into the good old question of “whatz up this evening ?“( Vaikitentha
parypady ?). I had also thought for a while to accompany our fellow bench mates
to join them for a beer or two but decided against it thinking – what I would
get into if I am little drunk and my wify gets her pain for delivery ? options
would be
- Shows up in front of delivery room with a
hangover to do the left-right : pre dad walk ? or
- To
be caught by police on drunken driving while trying to reach hospital :
Somehow I felt the above too options would be too much of
trouble and it’s better to skip the ordeal for some time before I settle into a
much awaited family life with a young one. Coming back to the SMS, I played
cricket after a break of almost 2 years and that too crashed right into an
internal unit match with nil match practice and scored 5 runs in 8 balls. The
match was fun as I could hardly read the pitch and play my shots but felt good
playing after a while. As out of practice, I did not even ask a chance to bowl
itself! We lost the match like 70 all out when 130 was required with an over to
spare.
So to give an update on my personal score, I am eagerly
awaiting my little one’s arrival this week, being on bench for last couple of
months conveniently to take time off work and enjoy my parent hoods’ early few
days. Wish me and my dear wife a lot of luck !
After note : Blessed with
a baby boy on May 23rd
! The walk which we often see in movies in front of the labor room and
all is far from reality. All you hear there is account of cases going in and
going out of the room ( some with C-Sec babies blinking and looking around and
normal babies awfully tired). Then comes the series of MIL / MPL with babies to
feed or NMs ready to feed their babies left in neo natal ICU – just for the
sake of charging us some extra bugs.
Some more to add on : Marking 15th day of
parenthood with lot of joy. Wife and MIL suffering from sleepless nights with little one still
sticking on to US schedules for his play time.
posting exactly 5 years after :)
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