The Stork's Assistants: Long Delayed Update

BT (Before Tyke) I had compiled a list of 2008 babies, due in March end, I was 9/10th in the list. The Tyke will be four months in a week's time, InshaAllah and I haven't posted a single update since my last the update IV. In fact, I should've been pushed down the expecting list as A, my SiL's bro and SiL had a son early March, but Z, blogger had her baby take her due time in her arrival so I retained my no. 9 spot. Anyways. After update IV:
N has had her twins, a boy and a girl, all fine, hale and hearty...her husband sent me their pics, with their elder son and the new arrivals.
S, my cousin has had a baby daughter early this month, sis sent me an sms also informing me of the impending mommyhood of two more cousins...that takes up the 2008 babies count to 15!
A, SiL, had a baby boy yesterday so hoooray there too. :))
The Tyke is neatly wedged amidst all these arrivals and will have loads of playmates his age...now only if we would make sure that he's around one time or another, with these kids in the list!
Our move to Canuck-land is all set now. We go there mid-August and get some paperwork done by end of September, then return to base and head home to Pakistan (KHI-LHR-KHI) in October/November...finally returning here to see the end of the year. Next year when we fly to Canada, it would be a permanent move, InshaAllah, sometimes in May.
Also I've been thinking up loads of Tyke posts all these months, I just have to make time one of tehse days and commit them all here.

Stork's Assistants: Update IV, MomZilla's and The Tyke

A has broken the daughter run for this year and had a baby boy on February 20th, three days after W had her daughter. We went to see BabySh the other day and he is MashaAllah adorable. His elder sis, L was taking quite well to the new arrival, L is two and a half year's old and A told me that her reaction to her bhai was cute, she rushes to him when he cries and actually tells him that L and Dadi are there with him, so he does not have to cry, they'll hit the genie for him! But like the little girl she is, she takes and exception to being called an aapa or baji...L doll, she says. And she really is a doll, Z was reminiscing sitting at their place how L was just like BabySh when he'd met her parents two years ago and now she was running all over the place making her preferences known to her guests. She liked me better than Z, for the record! Yay!

On March 1st I got an sms from A, my uni friend that they'd been blessed with a baby daughter. I think they knew of the gender all along and had a generic sms typed up to be sent the moment her child had arrived 'cuz I haven't heard from her since, not even a reply to my sms. I'll call her up or send her an email soonest I think she's returned to Earth. The baby, I assume hogs mom's time all the time so I don't feel like disturbing new mommies. Update on it later.

Some time earlier W had told me that her cousin W I'd met at my friend W's wedding also had a daughter, MashaAllah. I include her in my list and I kind of know W's cousin W who already has a cutie-pie handsome little son.

My SiL's bro and SiL also were blessed with a son over the weekend, so I think this is not going to be a year of the girls anymore...when I was sharing my theory with W she doubted it strongly saying that so far she'd heard an equal number of boys and girls joining the baby ranks this year. So. But babies galore, MashaAllah. Or perhaps you start noticing such things more when you are in the expectant parent list yourself...

I was watching Godzilla on MBC2 today and as I came to the scene where Mommy Godzilla sees her babies scorched to death as Madison Square Garden is bombed, I wanted to cry…for Mommy Godzilla…and I was livid with rage with her as she chased the pesky humans!
Tyke’s arrival, it seems would be sooner than we thought (or it’s Abba wished for; April 1st). Every time I go for an U/S scan there is something new for us to worry about; the tyke is an attention seeker and mommy worrier already. Last time it was in the wrong position and now it has itself in a knot; the result, consultations, constant monitoring and torment for Amma. Asides not being able to attend a function I was long looking forward to and had got a new dress all stitched up for, it pushes our whole schedule forward by a good two weeks. Before I went for the U/S the doctor was telling me that I might uneventfully go past my EDD of March 26/27 as it was the first baby for me. But the Tyke had other ideas, it had already kicked up a storm inside me, making my bump look like an alien shape-shifter the nights before and during the U/S session. By the time I returned to the doctor with my U/S report with the ominous words ‘Evidence of cord around the neck’ the doctor had changed her tune. So basically we’re now on constant monitoring and instead of having to wait out till the EDD, I’ll have to go for a CTG Wednesday and see what the doc advises…she’s ruled out the EDD wait as a risk, suggesting an induction some times next week and God forbid even a C-section if it does not work. I'm nearing full term of 37 weeks and the Tyke might be a tad teeny for it's impatient arrival into the world, so all should be well. I need prayers, loads and loads of them all the same.

Update III: The Stork's assistants

Z's friend S (not included in the list, as we did not know of their enceinte status) had a baby girl yesterday. So the list of babies of 2008 that I know is now 14. I can also enlist Z's colleague who recently had a daughter too but since I've not met him, he's not included.

Z's a real fan of S, who was born on February 29, he actually wants his kid to be as intellectually gifted as his friend S, I just reply that the child would not have to go that far for intelligence, Mommy is intelligent enough for a whole continent inhabited and ruled by herself, so it just has to take after Mommy

Back to S and his daughter, our first reaction on receiving the sms was...what date is it? Turns out the baby girl decided against sharing her b'day with her Dad and came in five days earlier to avoid the leap.

Also I went for my bi-monthly check up yesterday. Last time I'd gone there, I'd seen a full term Filipina pottering around the corridors...and I'd wondered when she'd be having her baby...and yesterday I saw her in the hospital again, holding a blue bundle...I sooo wanted to go to her and congratulate and gush over the li'l one but then a nurse pulled up the curtains in the lab to give some 'alone' time to mom and son. But the lady who was getting her CTG done with me also looked to be due quite soon. My next visit is in another 14 days time, perhaps I'd get to see her baby and go ga-ga over it?

Update II: The Stork's assistants

A and her husband K had a son a day after W and A had a daughter BabyZ. That's MashaAllah four baby girls and a boy so far. New baby on the block already has an elder sis L...two and a half years old and very much the apple of her parents' and grandma's eyes. I've yet to see the new arrival and ask new mommy how her first is reacting to everyone going ga-ga over the li'l one.

On the other hand, BabyZ is a real doll, MashaAllah, with tiny perfect feminine features, a straight little nose, longish baby eye lashes and delicately shaped eye brows...she's petite and perfect with her fingers and toes...we spent the entire time working out who she'd taken after and then her grandma decided that she'd taken the best features from everyone and come in a tidy little perfect bundle. Her brother A was slightly less himself, especially as he saw his Mom W holding and nursing BabyZ...but he has his aunt A's undivided attention...and he knows how to get attention. How much can you play with a three day old? So while we gushed over BabyZ as she slept all the while we were there, we still played with A, and I think it's going to be that way till BabyZ grows up and starts doing interesting things...A is in that totally adorable, look-at-me phase.

Update: The Stork's assistants

The count of babies of 2008 has to be revised to 13 now, A, my SiL's bro and SiL are also expecting their first child mid-March this year.

In the meantime glad tidings from W, she's had a baby daughter, Z last evening...and I am a brand new Khala again! AH, MA. I have yet to see my niece, but Aunty says she's an absolute janoo, W says she's a neat, tiny little bundle... and the cutesy little mews I heard from babyZ on the phone while talking to her mother were...easy-to-miss but hard-to-resist.

I'm also excited about how BabyZ's elder bro, A would react to a little child...he's used to attention all the time...how would he see the tiny one as a permanent fixture at his place and domain.

Once when Z and I stayed over at W's place over the weekend, A gawped and glared and watched us constantly wondering if these two new faces were to stay at his place for long...how'd he see his baby sister? Waise to the child is AH a complete ladies' man, charm itself in the presence of female company...but BabyZ is hardly company and we all know how men have double standards when it comes to dealing with their womenfolk and women in general. Let's see how he shapes up.

The Stork had better have some assistants

This year is going to be a busy one for the Stork, with so many deliveries it has to make.

Here's a count of babies delivered or expected this year. And these are babies I would see, whose parents I know and have met...friends who are expecting also know other people who are in the same league, but I'm not including them in the list. So here's a list:

1. M, sis in law: She's had baby girl H in December last year, I always start the count at her.
2. F, sis: She's had baby girl D in January this year
3. N, Z's colleague's wife: had a baby girl R in January
4. A, a friend: expecting in February
5. W, friend : expecting in February
6. Z, blogger I've met and know: expecting February/March
7. A, uni friend: expecting in March
8. N, uni friend: expecting twins in March
9. A, yours bloatedly: expecting in March/April
10. S, cousin: expecting in May
11. A, other sis in law: expecting in July/August

With N's twins, that's a neat dozen babies to pray for, shop for, cuddle and hug and go ga-ga over.

That's a cricket team complete with an extra player.

The year's only started and with what it's been like so far, there would be some more expected babies that I might learn of in the coming days/weeks. So the count is still open.

It's going to be one busy year for the Stork with all those deliveries, it had better have some assistants...