New Mom Tales #4: Breastfeeding

Watched mother langur (black-faced monkey) nurse her baby. No pressure, job done! I look at my baby. It has been a little over 40 days. 40 days of getting unsolicited advice about what to eat and what not to to increase milk production in my mammary glands. When every other mammalian species on the planet gets along just fine, we humans have to make it hard for our females, don't we? Sure, diet and milk production are correlated, but hey, there's an entire population out there that was produced without the consumption of ghee. Think about it.

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New Mom Tales #3: Languages

A pack of dogs bark in the middle of the night. My baby wonders where the sound is coming from. I tell him they're dogs (English), doggie (English slang), kutta (Hindi, Urdu), kutra (Gujarati, Marathi), kukur (Bengali). If he utters one of the above when he starts talking (after two whole years of repetition), I'll be happy.

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New Mom Tales #2: "Your child looks like you"

When everyone you meet tells you that your son looks like your husband or you (there is a split vote there), and you reply, "Haan, humara hi beta hai. Kisi aur ke tarah dikhta toh problem hota." ("Yes, that's because he's our son. If he looked like someone else it would be a problem.")

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New Mom Tales #1: Alphabetimals

While feeding my son, I sing the English alphabet with animals (A for Ant, B for Bear...). I juggle in my head whether I should stick to M for Monkey or introduce the exotic Manatee or Meerkat. Had to Google something for X. Turns out there’s a South American bird called Xenops. How exotic!

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