Neel Vavilapalli
Born: 05/20/2004 10:22 PM - 6lb, 15.8 oz - 20.5 in
My mom was tech-backward enough to not have a laptop at the hospital, so here is me saying “Hi” to all of you as soon as we came back home ;) - Baby Neel
Thank you, thank you and thank you all again for your good wishes and congrats and lovely sentiments for my little one :) I am sorry I could not get to the thanking part earlier - it is a little hard to type when there is a tiny, little mouth constantly attached to your breast…fortunately, I happen to be totally in love with the tiny body that is in turn part of the package deal with the mouth :)
I will be coming back to blogging once the baby settles down a bit - I am too much of a loudmouth to stay away for too long - the Mela for this month will be up soon and we will be bringing one of our favorite bloggers out of retirement to do that post…guess who that might be ;) I am really happy to know such wonderful people as you all and I promise I will try to turn Neel into world’s youngest basketball blogger while keeping my fingers crossed that he will sign his first million-dollar b-ball contract soon (no, I am not into day-dreaming - why would you ask?)…
Born: 05/20/2004 10:22 PM - 6lb, 15.8 oz - 20.5 in
My mom was tech-backward enough to not have a laptop at the hospital, so here is me saying “Hi” to all of you as soon as we came back home ;) - Baby Neel
My uterus wants to “liberate” the innocent prisoner living in it for the past 38-1/2 weeks - my cervix thinks “containing” him in my stomach has worked wonders so far and he is no “imminent threat”, so why change the status quo? I am “pro-liberation” of course, considering my uterus is contracting pretty strongly every 7-8 minutes or so and lasting about 45 seconds since 11:15 PM last night (contraction starts - oops, missed the time-frame for the cleansing breath - do we do breating technique 1 or 2? screw it, they don’t work anyways - AAAARRGGHH - when will this stop? what do you mean this is early labor and will get much worse? breathe easy - it is over…for now). That is where baby and me are at this point - will let you know what happens as soon as something (please, anything) happens.
Sorry for the short notice (blame it on pregnancy forgetfulness). This month’s Mela will be up on the 22nd and we need your entries (made by Indians or about India) posted between the dates April 15 - May 20 either emailed to me or left as comments to this post.
Don’t forget the $10 Amazon gift certificate that goes to the winner of the Mela!
It is a takeover that Andhra Pradesh ‘chief executive officer’ Chandrababu Naidu will never have dreamt of. The Congress and its allies — the Telengana Rashtra Samithi, Communist Party of India-Marxist and CPI — on Tuesday bagged 226 seats in the 294-member assembly.I have never been very plugged into Indian politics much, let alone the politics in my home state of Andhra Pradesh. I should still say I am pretty surprised by the loss of TDP to Congress by such a large margin, considering I have heard nothing but good things about TDP from my relatives and parents back home. I wonder what went wrong! I am not exactly sure this is going to be good for the state in the long run -
Information technology companies and executives are quite nervous about Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu’s dramatic ouster in Andhra Pradesh. Many feel that IT may he hit hard with the logging out of Naidu as investors may decide to keep away following the defeat of an investor-friendly government in Andhra Pradesh.The Nasscom (National Association of Software and Services Companies) President makes all the right noises, but it is hard to see how Congress is going to keep Naidu’s policies going strong while claiming that they are nothing like him.
Five healthy babies have been born to provide stem cells for siblings with serious non-heritable conditions. This is the first time “saviour siblings” have been created to treat children whose condition is not genetic, says the medical team.I find this practice not just unethical, but absolutely abhorrent as a human being. How can you give birth to a child whose sole purpose in life is to be a donor to someone else? These aren’t little seedlings we are talking about here, but actual, live babies who are going to grow up into adult human beings. Has anyone once stopped to consider what kind of people are these babies going to turn into when they find out that they were designed to fulfill the needs of another person and not for themselves?
He told New Scientist that people trying to conceive a child naturally as a tissue match for a sick sibling had only a one in five chance. This method can also lead to terminations where the foetus is not a tissue match for the sibling. “If you do it this way, the chance of finding a match is 98 per cent.”How totally wonderful! We are going to create a bunch of babies - kill them off if they don’t fit our needs and let survive only those that match them? Am I the only one who sees traces of eugenics in this issue?