Couple name newborn son Tsunami

PORT BLAIR (India): Six-day-old Tsunami Roy doesn't know what all the fuss about him is, as he hungrily suckles at his mother's breast before dropping off for a contented nap. 

Sitting in a classroom in the capital of India's tsunami-ravaged Andaman and Nicobar islands, his father, Lakshmi Narain Roy, 34, recounted on Saturday the dramatic events leading to Tsunami's birth, three weeks ahead of time. 

PRECIOUS BUNDLE: Namita holding Tsunami inside a relief camp at Port Blair in India.--Reuterspic

“It was early morning on Sunday, when I made my pregnant wife a cup of tea and woke her up. She was just about to take a sip when we felt the first jolt of the quake. She screamed for me to pick up our sleeping son and rush out.” 

Roy grabbed his six-year-old older son and ran out of their home near the coastal settlement of Hut Bay on the Little Andaman island with his wife.  

After placing Namita and his son on to his cycle-rickshaw, Roy pedalled and pushed the rickshaw as fast as he could towards a nearby rocky slope.  

There, he took Namita and his son to a wooded area where many others had fled. 

A nurse, with the help of other women, helped Namita, 26, give birth to her baby.  

“The nurse had no instruments, she was unable to remove the placenta from my wife's womb and within hours she was again in pain,” Roy said. 

They made a seven-hour journey to Port Blair and Namita was rushed to the hospital where doctors cleaned up her uterus and gave her some medicines. 

“It was the doctors who suggested we name the boy Tsunami and we also liked the name and decided to call him that. After all it is a name everyone will instantly notice and remember,” said Roy. – Reuters