I ran into this DVD the other day and I thought it was awesome. I think a must have...

This is a very interesting film by National Geographics about fetal development

I ran into this very interesting video about Garbh Sanskar. They are talking about how babies can learn stuff when in the womb and give example from Mahabharat (Abhimanyu learnt to get in the Chakravyoh when in womb).

I have to share this with everyone. When we were expecting Ansh, we were like the name has to start with letter A so that if you sort them, he will be on the top. You could see where it is coming from, my hubby Vish who tells me when he was a kid, he used to crib a lot about his name starting from "V" and being always last when sorted. He did great but had to wait for his turn. 

Another consideration for the name was that it should be easy on the tongue. how should I say it without being ummmm...rude...well it should be easy to pronounce by anyone in the world.

 And off course the name also need to be unique...and Desi. But PLEASE not name of a God or something as some desi's like to do. You know I was reading a group in Orkut "Muslim Parenting" and I read that in Islam they strictly DO NOT want to keep names of their kids on any of the names of God. And in Hindus, we ONLY want to keep names of our kids on names of Gods...! Interesting...

So the list came down to

 आस्तिक  or Aastik

सातविक or Saatvik

I was surprised that my hubby was considering Saatvik given S is very close to V alphabetically. I guess that was for the uniqueness of the name. But we were finally hooked on to Aastik. What a nice name  indeed. My hubby had done tests with some of our American friends to make sure it is OK on the tongue. So when the day came, we told the nurse the name we wanted, and She said "Ass-Stick"....and I was like what is she saying...and almost immediately we decided against Aastik and we went with the names suggested by my in-laws...that is Ansh.

 So that's the story. When we look back at it, we get a good laugh from it.

These incredible images were taken from the wings of butterflies and moths by photographer, Kjell Sandved. They include the entire English alphabet as well as the numerals 0-9.

 I also found this Hindi Alphabets poster online somewhere...