7th June 2015 - Sunday: I get up early at 4.30
am. I make tea for myself and Bindiya, do her routine and prop her up. Today is the DAY. I make
calls to Muskan and Kashyap to wake them up at 6.00 am. Time to rise and shine,
go to Inamdhar Hospital for ‘C’ section delivery. By 7.30 Kashyap and Akshay
get Dhwani admitted to hospital, and they in turn start delivery process.
Doctor will enter OT at 10.00 and we will have result out in 10 minutes max.
We all wait anxiously on 2nd floor, outside the
OT. Mummy has also come to be present at her great grand child's birth. She is
going to create record by being only person to be present at birth time of all
her grand children and now great grandchild. She looks around and sees,
Dhwani’s mother, sister and her husband, LP, Akshay-Muskan-Chinky, Kashyap and
his two close friends, one from Pune, one from Mumbai. Mummy tells me, How times have changed, today 10
people are present, during Akshay – Kashyap time, I was only one present in
hospital during their birth!
By 10.40 we are were losing our patience, security in charge
kept request Muskan to tone down her excitement, or she will lose her job.
Kashyap was called in, he put on cap etc and went in OT to observe. Within 2
minutes he was out, we kept gesturing him to turn at least give us indication,
if baby is born or not, and if yes, it is boy or girl. He kept his back in our
direction. I said, he is purposely taking footage, Muskan said, today I will
defiantly kill him, Chinky kept clapping, jumping and flashing big smile. Finally
he turned in our direction.
Instantly I knew it is baby boy. His wide smile and thumbs
up proved it. He wanted ‘Kabira’ and he got it. Akshay belongs to his
party, so he also flashed his 400 watts smile with extra flourish. We all
exchanged good wishes and waited for attendant to call us to have glimpse of
baby. He came out and saw so many anxious faces, he said, “Wait in corridor, I
will bring baby out to you for few minutes.” Kosha used her cell intelligently
and clicked boy’s first ever video clip, which was uploaded with 60 minutes.
We all shifted to room 808 and news was spread, everyone
asked for baby picture. Now this boy’s father – mother – massi – mausa all are
connected with TV and movie making. So, under the influence of Star TV, a plan
was cocked. Let’s upload baby pics from downloaded from google and wait for comments
and reactions. Comments were hilarious, just out of box and made us laugh at
innocent targets. This was too good to last, finally we were exposed. Tina was
most offended and attacked Akshay vigorously, who finally uploaded the real
picture.
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In afternoon, after making few calls, I was walking down
towards office, when someone shouted, “Prakash.”, it sounded like Ashok, and it
was! Mona – Gulu – Ashok were in Pune within 3 hours after the birth of Baby! I
was totally surprised and amazed.
This being Sunday, all Mumbai parties visited Inamdhar
Hospital. Jayeshbhai and his family, Ashok Ahuja – Gulu – Mona, then Kashyap’s
Andheri room partner, Vibha – Ritu were also returning from Mumbai. Then Tanvi
arrived at late night. Considering the short span of time, I have come to
conclusion that this boy is going to be influenced by moving images, be it on
TV monitor, Movie Screen or in 3D format or hologram format in open space.
It will take some time to digest what we were waiting for
last few months. Life moves on, silently.
by P G Dodeja
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