A year after giving birth to Raha, Alia recalled the moments she spent with her daughter when she resumed work post pregnancy.
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00:00It was my first time shooting after giving birth
00:02and no matter what anybody says,
00:03it takes really long for your body to bounce back.
00:06Where's Raha? And then she points to her.
00:08Where's Mama? And then she points at me.
00:09Where's Papa? And then she points at Papa.
00:11I remember calling Ranbir up and saying,
00:13listen, I'm really, you know, I'm finding it very difficult.
00:21Now we have a beautiful baby in our lives.
00:23Beautiful Raha has arrived.
00:25Tell us about Raha.
00:26Like the sunshine of your existence right now.
00:29She's gorgeous.
00:30I'm just like, I instantly whip out my phone
00:33and I'm just showing pictures of how she is and videos of her.
00:36She's great through, through, through.
00:37Healthy, happy, sunshine, light of our lives.
00:41And my favourite thing to do with her is make her point to like,
00:44where's Raha? And then she points to her.
00:46Where's Mama? And then she points at me.
00:47Where's Papa? And then she points at Papa.
00:49And we're constantly making her do it.
00:51I feel so bad because we're always making her point at us.
00:54But it feels so nice to just like engage and interact
00:58and see how she's responding and learning.
01:00And very often I just like sit with her in the morning
01:02when there's nobody there and I sit with her on my lap
01:05and I just talk to her about how I feel, what I wish for her.
01:08It was my first time shooting after giving birth.
01:11And no matter what anybody says,
01:12it takes really long for your body to bounce back.
01:14I was not sleeping at night.
01:16I was feeding, I was rushing in between shoots and stuff.
01:18So I remember calling Ranbir up and saying,
01:20listen, I'm really, you know, I'm finding it very difficult.
01:23So he pushed his work.
01:25He said, do not worry, I'm going to come pick her up.
01:28You know, we have this much milk stored, this, this, that, that
01:30and all, we calculated it.
01:31He said, I'm going to come pick her up.
01:32I'm going to take her. I've pushed my work.
01:34She'll be with me.
01:36And it was really like relaxing for me.
01:39But I also, it was the first time I was separating from her.
01:41So I felt very guilty.
01:43So that guilt carried on.
01:44And it was just one and a half days later that I traveled back
01:47and I saw a photo where the side of her face was kind of visible.
01:51And I just broke down.
01:52And I realized I was not breaking down
01:54because I don't want people to see her face.
01:55Like, honestly, when we meet people, I'm constantly like,
01:57you know, Ravi and I are like, please give her your blessing.
01:59Raha, do namaste, this, that.
02:01Like, we're proud of our baby.
02:02But it was just like too many emotions put together.
02:05And I'm so protective of my loved ones
02:07that I just felt like, oh, God, I don't want that conversation.
02:10But I realized it was just,
02:11I was just exhausted and overwhelmed at that time.
02:13And also a knee-jerk reaction at that time.
02:14Yeah. He's like deeply, madly, truly in love right now with her.
02:18And he's just like, sometimes just staring at her.
02:22He's troubling her.
02:23He's playing games with her.
02:25He was in the beginning, he was a burp specialist.
02:28Then he was, you know, a burp specialist.
02:31Means he was a burper.
02:32Currently, I don't feel like she needs to be papped.
02:34Even now, when we travel with her from the airport,
02:36they put their cameras down, they say, hi, hello,
02:39mama ji, chacha ji, they do all of that.
02:41And they take our photos and that's it.
02:43I think it's just like, I currently don't find the need for her
02:46to be a content piece on Instagram.
02:49That's what my feeling is.
02:51But that doesn't mean I don't want people to see her face.
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