For children aged 0 to 4
The cradle is decorated with flowers and cloth while the baby sleeps through every bit of it.
The aunts argue about where it should stand. The cousins are told three times not to swing it so hard. Somebody starts a song and everyone else joins in halfway through, at slightly different speeds. And when the baby is finally laid down, the entire room goes quiet to look.
The most visual of the Namkaran books: marigolds, silks, oil lamps and a house full of people who all have a job nobody gave them.
Preparing the cradle and laying the baby in it: the decorating, the songs, the cousins swinging it too hard, and the moment everyone falls silent to look.
The story stays with what is recognisable everywhere: flowers, singing, family and a cradle. It does not prescribe a particular regional ritual, and you can add your own details in the form.
Your baby and the family names you fill in. Upload photos and we draw a likeness of each of them.
A keepsake for the baby, read to them from about two. It also works as a gift on the day itself.