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!

Nachni / Ragi (Finger Millet) – best feed for babies

My babes is 6 months old, my mom has introduced to baby Ragi / Nachni porridge. In English it is called Finger Millet Porridge. Nachni is the best feed not only for babies but also for elders – this is my mom’s favourite and medicinal receipe. This has been going on for very long by my grand-ma as well and the receipe has now been passed on to us.

Mom gives baby Nachni / Ragi porridge in the afternoon. Nachni / Ragi is best if you powder it at home. What my mom does is – she buys the whole nachni / ragi and then washes it, spreads the nachni / ragi on a dry piece of cloth dries it in sunlight and finally powders and stores the ragi / nachni flour in air tight container. She prefers to follow this method rather that buying the ready made flour from the market.

Receipe of this wonderful porridge is : She prepares the porridge by adding one teaspoon of nachni / ragi powder, 1 cup milk and little water – depending on the consistency add jaggery for sweetening and just a pinch of salt. Then keep it on slow fire and keep stirring till done to avoid formation of lumps.

This is the best feed one can give their babies. So mums and would be mums – don’t forget to introduce this wonderful meal to your lovely babies.

Safety for baby

Yesterday we were all in a hurry to get ready to go to the church. So we just gave baby her bottle feed and left her on her own. She holds the bottle by herself so we gave it to her and all got busy with dressing and stuff. We usually never leave her unattended while she is having her feed.

After sometime my brother went to the room – what he saw was the bottle had up-turned and all the milk had spill over her neck, her body on the floor. There was milk all over her. Fortunately my brother went at the right time and to our good luck the milk had not gone inside her nose and stuff. To save little time by leaving her on her own and we dressing up it took us more time in bathing her. Hence my advice not to leave your baby unattended while she is having her feed.

Safety for babies is very important. In all other things I am very careful about babies safety as in trying and protecting her from germs etc. The moment she has her feed one should wash the bottle, just not wash but also sterlize the bottle. I fully submerge the bottles and teats in boiling water. In case baby has left her feed I do not keep it but just throw it away. Babies require different amounts at different times so just because I have made a full bottle of milk doesn’t mean that she has to finish it or give it to baby after an hour till she finishes it. That’s wrong .

My baby loves to play with plastic bags – she has the best of rattles etc. but she enjoys the sound of the plastic bag. When she plays with the plastic bag someone is with her to see to it that she doesn’t put the bag in her mouth or get suffocated Normally we always keep plastic bag out of her reach.

In short never leave your sweet baby unattended even for a while – it may be dangerous. Always be with her or leave your baby with someone reliable.