Babies.
By: The, S
Tags: Babies, Lockdown, Sex

Yes, babies. Lots of them born in the last 8 months — Covid babies.. lock-down babies — whatever you want to call them.

Something about babies that gets everyone excited (especially if its number 1 in the family): beginning with the parents of course — a by-product of two individuals mating and re-producing a third person, the grand parents who well.. need someone to play with in their old age, relatives who… I really don’t know why they’re excited really and lastly friends, who are just there to comment on pictures, the baby visit (wanting to carry the baby) the christening party invitation… and yeah that’s all about their participation in the whole thing.

I might be making it sound a very normal thing —but making babies, what’s in it? any two people (of opposite gender) can come together and make a baby. Don’t you think the real dance of the whole baby thing is in the growth journey of that child into the world?

RANDOM FACT: (just got it off the internet)

Couples trying for a baby have sex an average of 78 times before becoming pregnant, a new study reveals. This is BRAND NEW information, is that why people start early? I never knew people even counted

Btw, what is the correct ‘word’? Is it making, producing, having…

So when someone tells me… an ‘x’ person has got a baby girl/boy, my reaction is “that’s the easy part”, the same of which applies to a wedding day (a day’s affair in comparison to a ‘marriage’ — which is of a much longer duration)

Not many people have the stamina to run the long course, most do it - only because society would otherwise look down on them. Give them an option to escape from the responsibility and see how quickly they run…

Coming back to the whole baby thing: a new born baby is equivalent to a new soft toy to a child, a new mobile phone to a teenager or a husband/wife to a hormonal adult… all of these, initially excites you, you wanna hold it, play with it and it brings a smile to your face to look at it. Then as days pass…you get the hang of what you need to do with it/him/her and it starts to get monotonous. People congratulate you on your new acquirement and life moves on — you’re now left to fending for yourself and your new acquirement. The actual dance begins here, doesn’t it? A particular object/person will only improve/worsen on the way we handle it… so less the said about that journey the better. That said even a gadget like a mobile phone too needs handling with care.

I personally do not have very strong paternal instincts… I mean I would never carry a baby, simply because - well, I don’t know how to hold/carry one… and besides it doesn’t really fall into my list of things I like to do in particular. I can admire it from a distance. Babies and infants are really not my thing, a grown up, speaking little person — now that’s alright, I think I can manage that well.

And ever seen a baby just look at you for long periods of time (it is like they’re judging you for something) obviously they can’t talk [which may be a good thing — you really do not want to know what they’re thinking about you]

Bringing life into the world may be ranked right up there as one of the most beautiful moments of life, but then again… it is a pretty normal course of action-and of expected lines after marriage. Marriage day comes a close second I suppose. There are only a few highlight moments one gets to celebrate in life, the real BIG EVENTS, if I can call it that. Some live for those moments, while others just embrace what life has to offer them.. and if these moments happen to come as a part of their life, its like the icing on an otherwise normal cake.

Every side I look or hear of, its babies, pregnancies and the likes. People must have really run out of things to do during the lock-down. Sex was definitely an option during the lock-down, but I’m sure if no other shops were open, the medical shops surely were, isn’t that where the condoms (protective gear) are kept? Just saying.