Avinash Lohana (MUMBAI MIRROR; January 8, 2020)

After dating for over a year-and-a-half, Roadies and Splitsvilla creator Raghu Ram and his Canadian singer-girlfriend Natalie Di Luccio tied the knot in Goa in December 2018. In August last year, they announced that they are expecting their first child. On Monday, the couple welcomed a baby boy at a city hospital.

“Relieved,” is the first thing Raghu says when asked about becoming a father. “There are actually many emotions. We had been preparing for this for months. We learned more about pregnancy, child birth and baby care, but none of it really prepares you for parenthood,” Raghu shares, adding that the mother and child are healthy and safe and hailing child-birth as “magical and awe-inspiring”.

He goes on to inform that Natalie opted for a water birth with hypnobirthing techniques “for a beautiful, calm and natural process. As far as the name goes, it was important for the new parents to 'find a multi-cultural, multi-national and multilingual name to reflect our union, so we picked ‘Rhythm’. More importantly, it can’t be linked with any religion,” smiles Raghu.

At home, the baby will be welcomed into a brand-new nursery. “We moved houses the minute we found out about the pregnancy to make room for the baby. Natalie had been obsessively nesting, which also gave her the opportunity to do up the new place; it was completely empty when we moved in. She decorated the nursery with beautiful quotations and messages from my friends on the walls. There are also cute little animals, clouds and stars in the room. It has a beautiful vibe,” Raghu signs off.