Conversation With My New Born Daughter

My daughter is my first child. I remember when the nurse came out, she was quite awake with her eyes wide open, as if, telling all of us that she had good nine-month rest and that was enough. It was quite a nostalgic moment.

My daughter is August born – a Leo. Since she is my first child, I had a long conversation with her when she first came from the hospital to her home. She used to sleep whole day and so was awake whole night. So, we father and daughter decided to speak in the night when everyone would be sleeping.

Whole day I had prepared my speech that I had to give it to her. What will I say, how will I say, and most importantly, how much will I say, since I am quite talkative.

My actual conversation with her had started when her heart, brain, hands, legs, face everything was developing and taking shape.

As the time passed, I could feel her leg and hands trying to touch me. I would say – “hey princess I am your father here…” and her leg or hand would raise and I would give her ‘high-five’.

Beautiful moments, some of which, we could capture in pictures as well.

So I finally had a decided date with my daughter.

She was looking at me and smiling. As if telling me – “Go on father you have been very talkative throughout.” I smiled, my daughter was quite understanding - the conversation began.

“So, you are finally in your house and lying peacefully beside your father. You know how much your father waited for you. I hope you were fit and fine with your mother and she took good care of you.” And she smiled and I could hear her saying - “Yes. Look I am finally here”.

You must be wondering how am I conversing with her when she can’t even speak. I told you, fathers have a language of hearts with their daughters. And daughters speak even when they are silent. Rather, they are speaking louder when they are silent.

Here, she was at least moving her lips and saying few words – I was happy.

So, I continued, “You have so many people in the family. I will give you best of education and best of things in life. I will give you everything that you would ask for to become a strong individual and good human being. I am sure you will have a beautiful life and you would do very well. The time will fly and we both have to hold each other’s hands to make each other happy and confident. You remain assured that no matter what, your father will always stand with you. You would need me at many occasions. You would need me to drop you to the play-school for the first time and then formal school. You would need me in your parents-teacher’s meetings, when teacher would a scold you and your mother will agree with teacher. You would need me standing and cheering you up in your every achievement, and you would need me, particularly, when the days may not look that good.

Whenever you would need me, you will find me with you always.”

She looked at me with strange eyes as if telling me – “I am just few days old and you want me to go to school and attend parents-teacher’s meeting. Common dad, spare me for few days. I have just come out of a tough nine months life.”

I smiled and decided to speak something else. Suddenly it stuck in my mind – I was only speaking about how much she would need me. Never spoke about how much will I need her.

I could see that she was trying to reach out to my fingers and trying to hold them. She guessed it right and smiled.

Within seconds, my fingers were in hand and her beautiful small hand was between my fingers.

I could now hear much clearly what she was trying to tell me by holding my fingers – “Papa, I will stand by you in all your decisions and make you proud. I will ensure that me and you have a great bonding and this bonding remains forever. We will have our own language of hearts. I would know you from heart and not from your mind, like you are hearing me from my heart. When I am holding your fingers today, it means a lot to me. I would always want you to guide me, advise me, mentor me and make me a good human being. By holding your fingers, I would be safe and secure. No matter how much I grow in age or professionally, I would always need your hand to bless me.” Tears rolled from my eyes and I kept my hand on her head.

She slept peacefully thereafter on my hand. And I also slept holding her.

Trust me, every word of that conversation came out to be so true.

Even today, we speak to each other in silence. We can know what each one of us is thinking. We can know when either of the us is annoyed or happy. And we can know when who is going to call.

This bonding has only grown stronger whenever it was tested and tried.