Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Quote of the day

AKA "How to know your wife loves you"
"This soup is disgusting. You can have as much as you want."
Gee, thanks honey, that kind of endorsement is really inspiring. It's also really kind of you to let me bond with the kids by allowing me to change their diapers.

Okay, about the hospital. It really is quite functional, as much as I like to complain about the food. There is plenty of space and the nurses are incredibly responsive. In fact, we were considering staying here the whole time, but decided to move to the Marriott on Friday. There is something quite comforting about having everyone around. The service is excellent. Oh, bring your own soap and shampoo; they're not provided. I can't quite figure out the cost, but it's definitely less than the hotels nearby.

In terms of eating, there are plenty of restaurants around, and we took a tuk tuk over to the Rodas hotel (which is gorgeous, at least from the outside) and had lunch at the Pan Asian restaurant, which was quite good. We thought we were quite the bargainers when we bargained the tuk tuk driver from 200 rupees down to 50 rupees, until the way back, when the driver offered us a ride for 10 rupees. Oops. It's a short walk, but you are putting your life at risk by trying to cross the street.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

The Hiranandani Diet

The hospital we are staying at is called the Hiranandani, and it is right outside of Mumbai in the lovely suburb of Powai. Actually, we haven't seen much of Powai, but the hospital's website assures us it is lovely.

We are staying in a two-room family suite, which has all the charm of a roadside motel but is highly functional. Two rooms, two bathrooms and a nurse only a call button away. Meals are included.

Yeah, about those meals...For those of you considering losing a few pounds, I highly recommend this place. I've never spent much time in a hospital, but now I understand the stereotype about hospital food. We can definitely identify which part of the meals is the fruit, but the, um, "entrees" seem to be a mixture of mystery pasta and mystery meat. Lunch was some noodles mixed with the same sauce that is in Spaghettios. Dinner was, well, I'm not quite sure. Suffice it to say, the kids' formula is looking pretty good.

Intro

Our kids are only a week old and they are already violating the laws of physics. The First Law of Thermodynamics states that "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed." Apparently, the same holds true for matter.

Let me be the first to say tht our kids are creating energy. Specifically, we are feeding them 40 ml of formula every two hours, but the output far exceeds the input by a factor of about four. I mean, these kids are pooping it out like they are in a contest.

Okay, so hello to everyone. I'm Mike, and along with my wife Deena, we have just become blessed with twins through a surrogate in India. Frankly, I wish that I had started the blog earlier, so I could have gone into the whole process, but what's done is done, and you will now get to hear about some of the aspects of Daniel's and Sophia's early days from a perspective that you won't find in many books. I suppose that much of this is already out there, but when you give a computer to a person with nothing better to do, this is what you get.