Saturday, January 26, 2008

Baby Chandra has arrived!

On January 24th at 9:08AM, the Chandra family was blessed with a new son, Roshan (meaning "shining light"). It is still hard to get over our immediate joy and shock. Reality has finally hit.

A few specs for those in the crowd keeping score.
Weight: 5 pounds, 8 ounces
Length: 18 inches
Cuteness: off the charts. See video below for confirmation.

Thankfully for mom, the labor was relatively short for a first time pregnancy. All said and done, it took less than 7 hours from water break to delivery versus the average of 18 hours! And forget diamonds being a woman's best friend...it's all about the epidural.

Thanks to everyone for their care and support. We promise to catch up with you all once we are ready!


Roshan, the arrival from rishi chandra on Vimeo.

If you have trouble accessing the video, you can find the photos here.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

CONGRATULATIONS! We are so happy for you guys. Roshan looks so good and you guys make such a cute family! Great video, papa Rishi, especially the music. Mon - you look so beautiful in the hospital!!!
Enjoy this time (even without sleep).
Love you guys! Em (& Rod & Olivia)

Eugine Chung said...

Indeed - off the chart cuteness... and also off the chart gorgeousness of mom!

Can't wait to see you guys. (whenever you are ready that is..)

GREAT pictures Rishi!

Unknown said...

welcome Roshan!

your video made me smile, it's adorable. hope you are enjoying your first days of parenthood. catch you soon...

Doreen O said...

What a great family. You are going to have so much fun.
Love, Doreen and Kevin

elsupremo said...

dear rishi and monica!

congratulations - that is one fine baby boy!

roshan - welcome to this world dude! we cant wait to meet you!

xo!

amitannemadisonasha

Dr. Lisa said...

Congratulations!
Roshan is soooo precious...even when he is sticking out his tongue and flipping you off!
Be well all three of you!
~Lisa and Phil

Unknown said...

OMG. That video is too overwhelmingly gorgeous.
You CANNOT just post it without a warning that viewers watching it at work may *potentially* shed a small tear at how movingly cute that video is!! It's an outrage!
Hope to see you 3 soon,
:-)
- Shan