New Born

Many people seem to warn us that parenthood will take our lives away from us. No more movies, dating and invitations to parties. However, We seem to transit into parenthood very smoothly. This is probably due to the fact that nowadays we have access to information. We termed ourselves the new age parents. We define it as Parents who take Proactive action to seek out information and arm themselves with it to make the right decision. This helps when there are influences from relatives who mean well but are sometimes misinformed.

The first 3 months of pregnancy was difficult. We wondered why they call it 'morning sickness' when it doesn't even happen in the morning. It should be called, 'all day sickness'. But after the 3 months, if was a breeze....especially for me(the husband). One thing Anita did right was to take a lot of nutrition and have a lot of exercise. If anyone says, pregnant woman need to rest...please lah! The body needs to exercise and get strong to support the additional weight.

Anyway, fast forward to the due date. We were watching Spider-man 3 one week before due, courtesy of my dear younger brother. The baby must have enjoyed it, since it was very quiet in the womb. Couple of days later, labor set it and after some false alarm and a tiring night for my wife, my son was born healthy. Ooooo...what a joy. We had named him Aidan Kamal Krishnan. What was interesting was the reaction to the name:

1. Why did you give him a Malay name?



2. Is the a christian name?



3. Why like the western three name??

Answers:

1. Kamal is a Sanskrit name, meaning lamp



2. Aidan is a Celtic name, the roots are common to Sanskrit, and it means Little Fire ( Man, We didn't know how right we were )



3. Well, we expect our son to be successful, so we gave him a global name that can be used internationally. Globalization my friend.



4. And Krishnan, well, that's my surname. So....he carries it too.

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