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Recently Facebook threw up a memory from October 2010. Am seven months pregnant with Avani and commentating for the sport of Wrestling during CWG 2010. Such a career high that was and anyone who would meet a pregnant commentator in a noisy stadium would have their own comments! Your baby will either be a commentator himself/herself or a wrestler!! And I was like - why not!!!

We know my baby's journey in these seven years and the breaking news is that am pregnant again! Yup! Its time to welcome baby no 2! And coincidentally, even in this pregnancy I worked as commentator for another international wrestling tournament! Haha.. that was in month 5! 

But coincidents don't end there for us. Call it destiny/luck/karma or whatever, it seems am

chosen by the almighty to stay in perpetual stress concerning my children. 

When Aiyappa and I 'discovered' earlier this year that I've conceived, for at least 12 weeks we were not sure if we're going ahead with the baby or... 

Then the mother in me got greedy. I wanted another chance at 'producing' a healthy offspring. I wanted a sibling for Avani. I wanted someone to talk to any time of the day. Someone who can annoy me with his/her questions and share all emotions. 

So we go ahead. Starting Month 2, there's massive evening sickness. All I do post 3 PM from month 2-5 is eat and puke!!! Weight  gain is bare minimum... no one can guess that am expecting. 

Week 18 onwards, things start easing out a bit. I tell myself,  this is the time to start enjoying. Just a bit anxious about the impending 19th week anomaly scan but relaxed overall.  We reach this radiologist for the scan promptly when its time. Its going fine... fetal heart, kidneys, liver, stomach, brain, arms, legs everything seems to be on the mark. We are happy and just as we are thanking our stars, the doctor decides to drop a bomb! 

We are told, that baby's nasal bone is absent. What does that mean? Well, its considered a soft marker for chromosomal abnormalities... With fucked up mind and heart, we get out... Aiyappa decides to buy some 'namkeen' and I want to have a samosa to fight tears. We eat, we leave and just when we reach parking, I get a call from doctors clinic... we're praying that he's called us back to say that there's been a mistake and everything is fine with our baby... please please please.

Well, there has been a mistake and its concerning the report... but the problem is that he forgot to mention 'absent nasal bone' in the written sonography report. His assistant duly added that and said thanks for coming back. 

To be continued...