Baby responds to songs

Kiele entered her 10th month. Every month we sing a birthday song as well as play the birthday song and cut the cake etc. I guess she is now so used to the birthday song so much so that each time we sing the song baby Kiele starts shaking her head, hands and leg. The moment we stop singing the song she is quiet. She responds to the song very well. We have also started teaching her to clap her hands when we sing ‘Clap hands’ song. This shows that she likes songs and hence responds to it nicely.

To mothers who just gave birth to beautiful babies

To mothers who just gave birth to beautiful babies

For their lovely babies to get sufficient feed, here is a receipe that mothers should eat whether they like it or not. I use to have and still have it sometimes and it really helps at the same time it is very yummy… I use to enjoy eating it – Shingada powder – To a cup of milk add one table spoon of the powder ... sugar according to taste and boil it for sometime. If you wish to have it thicker add more powder. Believe me it’s the best.

Kiele can sit upright

Kiele is 9 months now and she can sit upright on her own. What she loves doing now is - she loves to stand. She tries to hold the chair and makes an attempt to stand. We do not distract her and let her do what she feels like but we keep a close watch on her

We now keep her on the floor and she happily plays with all her toys on the floor. She loves to play with papers or we just fill a bag with all her toys or small items and then she is kept busy by removing all the things from the bag. In this way we too are free coz she is busy in emptying the bag. Nobody should call her or distract her once she hears our voice or if anyone says hello to her there is she with her hands wide open to lift her.

She holds our hands and tries to walk too - just beginning to. She is growing bigger but food intake is becoming lesser. At times in fact not at time but at all times I have to think what should be given to her to eat. She loves something only for a day or two then she is tired of eating it.

She loves to eat ice-cream. Ice-cream she can eat even if she is sleeping she will wake up. We do give her little of it – am afraid she may catch a cold.

Kiele at the pub

For our wedding anniversary we had all planned that we would go to the pub. So as usual we were late so my friends proceeded to the pub and had a seat and was enjoying the music and the ambience. We reached the place but was not permitted in since I had my baby. The security did not allow us to take Kiele upstairs because of the noise pollution and the smoke. I willingly agreed and went up and called my friends too.

In a way it is really nice that they are very much concerned about the child but at the same time we were little disappointed for some time since we could not enjoy ourselves at the pub.

But as the saying goes whatever happens – happens for the best. We took a cab and drove down to a restaurant with real good ambience, coolness etc… My Kiele enjoyed herself while we were all dining and chatting. She was very comfortable sitting on her chair and playing with the spoon and eating the noodles which was fed to her.

We all had a great evening at the restaurant thanks to the security for not letting us in coz I then realized that Kiele would not at all be comfortable in that place coz of the blasting music and the environment out there.

Food

Food Habits

As Kiele is growing bigger, she is becoming more fussy especially where food is concerned. She loses appetite immediately. As it is said variety is the spice of life. She needs different meal.

We had taken her to the doctor last week just for normal check up. He suggested that I give her what she eats no problem. Her milk intake also has decreased but I give it in some other form like cheese, butter with bread etc. She enjoys eating all this. Ice cream is one thing she loves eating at any time. I do give her little of it. Her juices are still on she has them with interest till now. Things she doesn’t like to eat is rice, dal, kichdi… which we all know is very important. My doc too said that try and feed her but she just refuses to eat it. Tried preparing in different ways by adding milk etc.. but not successful. Will definitely think as to how I can feed her rice dal by trying different ways and will keep you posted.

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.