Saturday, July 30, 2011

First cough

My baby has a cold. If I wore a saree, I would be wiping his snot with my pallu. There are very few things in this world more pathetic than a baby with a cough. I am now inducted into the league of parents who lie awake at night cringing whenever their baby coughs.He has a blocked nose and hence he can't breathe when he starts sucking his thumb. But hey, thumb sucking is way more important than oxygen, so he has cycles of stick thumb in mouth-laboured breathing-pull thumb out, gasp for breath and yell with annoyance. Entertainment comes in all shapes and forms.