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Celebrating Mother’s Day in Quarantine

(top left to right)  Grandma and Me; Mom and me; (bottom left to right) My Bunny & Me; Mom-In-Law and Me As we are all getting used to the “new normal”, staying home shouldn’t really stop us from showing our love and gratitude for the people we love. With each new day, calendar forwards without a change and occasions come on the defined time – unaware of the fact that we are under lockdown due to COVID-19. With the occasions falling on a calendar day, the only difference I find is that everything is home-bound instead of a fun-filled evening watching the most awaited blockbuster at Cineplex followed by dinner at your favorite restaurant or traveling to the nearby destination and spending a night at the lake-side hotel! But this shouldn’t stop the fun or stop you from celebrating and acknowledging the special days – Birthday, Anniversary, Festivals, and appreciation days such as Mother’s Day and Father’s Day! Since 2020 is a special year, Mother’s Day celebration ...
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The Beginning...



Hello & Welcome to my blog. Babiesnmii is my first blog where I hope to share my pregnancy, maternity and postpartum experiences with you. I wish I can walk with you through this beautiful journey and you can relate it with mine. I am a loved wife , a working woman and a mommy to a handsome little boy – Aarav.
I have always had a passion for writing. As a child, I scribbled poems about my papa, mummy and sister. As I grew older I got creative with my writing skills and explored writing short stories, speeches, poems, essays and a book! This blog is dedicated to my loving hubby Harsh - my motivator and pillar of support, my dad – Harin, who is a writer himself - my inspiration and of course my mom - Sapna, my parenting idol!! 
It was 2:00 am when my pregnancy test showed "+"... it felt like the second-best moment of my life, the first being the destiny of meeting my better half! The feeling of me - as a “mommy-to-be” filled my little world with delight. My heart was pounding and eyes rolling with tears of joy; I was going to be a mother in 9 months! Holding the pregnancy test in my hand, I ran into the bedroom to wake my hubby and share the wonderful news! The complete moment is recreated in my mind as I write this. Those are the most mesmerizing and memorable moments of my life.
I am a memory-loving person – and I literally mean this. I still have my first notebook from nursery school that my parents put in my memory box. And so, this new journey that I was going to embark into was very very special to me. From the first day, I maintained my own little pregnancy journal to make all the funny, silly, memorable moments and also kept a memory box to collect special things through these nine months. It was then that I decided about starting my own blog. Well, it certainly took a bit longer to start writing, but finally it is here. 
If you are a first-time parents-to-be, you are in the right place! I will be sharing my beautiful journey from the beginning of my pregnancy and delivery to postpartum and parenting. I am proud to write this blog as a mother and a working woman. I am representing many of you who are reading this blog at the moment.
This blog will serve as a platform for all the new parents-to-be to get their questions answered. I would love to hear your feedback and personal experiences on the subject. I hope you enjoy reading the blogs. Happy motherhood & parenting!


                                  

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