Motions

Kiele was passing motions frequently for the last 2 days. Motion was not watery hence I was not too much worried, but the thing was she has become very weak. Really didn’t know what to do. Tried home remedy which one of my neighbour suggested and yes it worked.

1 ½ teaspoon of arrowroot powder, ½ litre water, little cardamon powder and sugar. Boiled all the ingredients for some time, kept on stirring. Allowed the mixture to cool under room temparature – gave my baby to drink this water every 1 ½ hours. She felt better and the motions too were under control.

So this is the home remedy I tried when Kiele had motions 2 days back and it really worked wonders. Also gave her rice cunjee – Cunjee is also good when babies passes motions too many times.

Kiele’s practice / pattern of sleeping

Our baby Kiele’s practice of sleeping. When baby Kiele wakes up in the middle of her sleep – she cries for sometime puts her head up and looks around just to see if anyone is watching her or if anyone is in the room. The moment she sees somebody her volume of crying increases further in order that someone in the room will carry her. I have learnt by lifting or talking to her sleep is totally disturbed and then she becomes very cranky.

Now what I do is – the moments she lifts her head up to see around – we just stop moving or looking at her . She knows that nobody is around her – she may make some noise that lasts for less than a minute and then she is quite and sleeps again without any hassles.

The incident that happened while I was away at someone’s house over the weekend. As usual baby had a bath and she normally sleep for long hours in the afternoon provided nobody hellos her or lifts her when she wakes up in between. So as usual after sometime she woke up and as usual looked around with wide eyes open and started making sounds so a relative tried to talk to her and there she started making louder noise for which she had no choice but lift her. Then she needs to be pampered and carried the whole time for which we had to do. I explained it to everyone out there that in case anyone of you hear her cry or sounds while she is sleeping just leave her alone – and watch her slowly. She will be fine.

The same thing happened at nite when she went to sleep and we were all in the living room chit chatting. I explained to everyone just be quiet for sometime and not to actually move and stuff. She cried for less than a minute and fell off to sleep.

Kiele fell from the bed

Yesterday, Kiele had a fall from the bed. After her massage and bath, the massage lady wrapped her and placed her on the bed, mom had just gone to the balcony to attend to some urgent chores – then there was a loud boom – the massage lady rushed to the bedroom. There baby was lying on the floor and crying. She had a big lump on her head.

Mom immediately gave her few teaspoons of sugar water and applied lot of oil on her head to lessen the lump. This all happened in the afternoon. By evening the lump was very small. There was no pain either.

These things do happen with kids, so do not get hyper - just be calm. Yes, but one should be careful too don’t let the same thing happen over and over again. It is best to keep small babies either on the floor or in their cradle. My baby willingly sleeps in the cradle only at night. If your baby is kept on the bed see to it that there is someone with your baby to attend to her. At the age of 6 months they are quite capable of throwing away, pushing the pillows or climbing over them – so please don’t feel it keeping pillows by her side is safe – it isn’t – am speaking through experience.

Vibes

Vibes

It’s very important to understand your baby’s vibes. My Kiele doesn’t like to go to neighbouring houses – I really don’t understand why? Like if my neighbour in town comes to take her to their place the moment she steps in their house she will cry bitterly till one of us carry her. At the same time when this same neighbour comes and carries or play with her in our house, Kiele is very happy and excited and giggles and giggles to glory. At times I feel its good thing she is behaving now when she is small or else neighbours and friends would think that her parents are teaching her to behave in this manner.

Like yesterday we had gone to our suburban house – my neighbour out there is very fond of her so the moment we are there he will immediately come and carry her and he is so happy that we are there. As long as he carried her in our presence she was fine. He took her to his house and there she started crying and crying till she was brought to her house. There are certain places that Kiele is very uncomfortable and wants us to be there as well, she doesn’t get that positive vibes I guess and so her behaviour is different. So we have decided to go more often to the houses where Kiele doesn’t feel comfortable so that she sees us often talking and mixing around with our neighbours and she too gets attached to them and develop positive vibes.

Semolina / Soji porridge

Soji / semolina porridge Soji or semolina porridge is also a good feed for babies. We introduced soji porridge when Kiele was around three and a half to four months. I resumed work during that time and the doctor had suggested not to give tin stuff for baby. Try as much as possible to avoid tin food and give her only home made food. We do give her formula milk at least twice a day – during the day we give baby either soji / semolina porridge or nachni porridge as mentioned in my earlier posting. Soji porridge is simple and fast to cook and we carry it with us while traveling etc.. Method of preparing is very simple just add soji, milk, sugar and little water and keep it on fire – keep stirring till done to avoid formation of lumps. Baby as of now enjoys eating it – her taste / likes changes. She has this habit of leaving little in her bottle we do not force her coz I feel the child will eat as much as she needs to. We should not force babies to eat hence we don’t mind it going waste. My advice to you mums and would be mums – do give your baby at least one feed of soji / semolina porridge – its very good. Your baby will also enjoy this wonderful feed.

Methi Ladoo

This message is to all my friends who are pregnant and to would be mums.
After delivery you will have to take care of your health. Eat good food,
which is very important to keep your baby healthy as well as yourself.

Eat methi ladoos for good milk production. I had arranged to get them
made from some maharahtrian lady, it was very nice. The methi ladoos that
are available in the shop are too bitter and has absolutely no taste. My
hubby had bought them but I just couldn't eat it. My friend suggested that
we arrange to get them home made. One should not skip these ladoos.

I am giving below the ingredients involved - you may kindly arrange for
someone to make it.
Pure ghee / Cashew nuts / almonds / dink / kharik / jaggery / dried coconut
/ methi / til / khuskhus / charoli / kismish / wheat and oil. These are
the ingredients required to make the ladoos.

I used to eat them regularly in the morning without fail. Since I was told
by all my neighbours and friends the importance of these ladoos, hence
didn't skip any day without eating this nutritious methi ladoos.

Secondly nachni / ragi also is very good you may refer my below posting on
nachni / ragi

Pampers

Pampers are really good to help babies to get their good sleep at nite. I started using pampers for my baby right from the time she was brought home from the hospital i.e. the first nite at home. This not only helps the child to get good sleep but also helps us parents.

I know of parents complaining as to they need to wake up at nite to change cloth nappies and stuff. That wasn’t the case with me. So who ever tells me this I advice them to use pampers for their baby at least at nite. Babies naturally will feel uncomfortable when they are wet – hence why make them feel uncomfortable and also disturb their sleep. My advice is to use pampers. Sleep is very important. At times I really wonder what a great help this pampers are what would we have to go through without pampers for babies.

Before putting the pamper on my baby I put a lot of powder to prevent baby from getting pamper rash. Its not right to to keep the baby whole day with pamper – I suggest nite time and when traveling. When we were traveling out of town – babes pamper was on the whole day – we did change the pamper of course but yet. By evening her skin was really bad. At that point of time I thought I would just discontinue putting the pamper for her. I applied Vaseline and she was fine after a day or so. But it was our mistake for not keeping her open even for sometime.

My advice to you mums & wud-b-mums.. don’t think.. just make use of pampers for your lovely babies and let them enjoy their good sleep at nite and you as well.

Good luck!