I is for Itsy Bitsy Spider When Baby was born I told myself that I won't let her watch any animation or TV until she's over a year. I didn't want to be one of those parents who have to turn on the TV for the child to be fed.  Then she fell ill. Potent…

H is for Home A couple of years ago, my life looked complete. Good day job, creatively writing, great partner and not in that order. World looked nice. Yes I did miss having a baby. It would have been the cherry on the icing of the cake. Then our daughter happened to us. Baby noises…

G is for Gates The stairway to our basement is a long steep flight of steps. Some days I've wondered if the angle the stairs made to the ground was ninety degrees. So one of the top things on our baby list was a gate. Several research hours later, (all by hubby dear) the gate…

F is for First Moments The first moments of any adventure are the most promising, most unforgettable, most beautiful. New beginnings. Especially true of a new life. A few years ago, I was with a friend in the operation theater, holding her hand as we welcomed her baby into the world. One moment we were…

E is for Ear infection Oh I know, this is far from a glamorous or fun topic. But then who said that parenting is only fun or glamorous? All babies go through a series of ear infections. Especially  if they go to daycare or hang around siblings who go to school. Thats the nature of…

D is for daycare. "The first day at the daycare will be a nightmare," they said. "Don't worry, though. It will be worse for you than for the baby, they always adjust easily."  And they were not far off. The first part was right. The second wasn't. It didn't help that when we went to…

C is for crawl. Or, one of the lessons my daughter taught me. When it was past 5 months and it looked as though crawling would be a long way coming for my daughter, I started worrying. And fretting. I got very nervous, and got into bouts of tears. It turned out all for naught.…

B is for Baby bump As I think back on the various transformations my body went through to make my baby, I struggled to remember the low points. A smile creeps through all my memories and refuses to vanish. Eclipsing all the sicknesses, the acidity attacks, the tendonitis in both my wrists, the breathlessness, the…

A is for Anna The day my husband told me that in his native language the word for mother is mamina was the day I started yearning for a little voice calling me just that. Mamina. It was a rough ride going from being a couple to being parents but less than a year ago,…