I will run a social media contest to decide the name of my son: Saumya
It’s quite overwhelming these days. I don’t realise whether it’s day or nigh says an ecstatic, but a tir Saumya Tandon, who recently gave birth to a b As she speaks to us, we c hear him crying in the background while Saum tries to calm him down.
She reveals that it all happened too fast.
“The process was quite overwhelming and I had a tough time as I was working, too. It’s been some time. My family and I didn’t want anyone outside the hospital to know and we didn’t want that attention. We decided we will announce it only when we get home. When I was in the hospital, too much was happening around me. I had just gone for a regular checkup and then I had to be rushed [into labour], as the doctor said,” she reveals.
Asked if she has decided on a name for the baby yet, she says that they have come up with an innovative solution. “We haven’t chosen anything yet. I am planning to take help from social media. I will ask everyone what should be the name of my son because we haven’t been able to (zero in on one). My husband keeps coming up with these crazy geeky names and I keep shooting them down. My mother and sister also keep sending me lists… Iwil lu ace,s al contest, and ask all of my fa [to decide on one],” says the actor.
Saumya also made a lot o efforts to deal with the changes that a woman’s bo undergoes during pregnancy. Telling us abo it, she says, “He gets up every two hours and I hav to breastfeed him. I get exhausted, but I have started stretching and physio. I didn’t have to struggle with my weight I was practising yoga. Thankfully, I didn’t gain weight. I worked on my muscles and stomach an did breathing exercises that my muscles didn’t g tight. Hats off to women who have kids, take car of home and step out for work as well.”