Another nightmare night. Nisarg started fussing around bedtime and crying on and off. By 1am, he was crying full blown out. Screaming wails, hiccups, gasps, chokes, scary breathless sounds, constant screaming interspersed with exhausted and restless dozes he came out of within a couple of minutes. I was scared. I woke up Raka around 4am… Read More »
If you live in India and also learn about best practices from the net/books/doctor, its likely that you have the most conflicting opinions when it comes to baby massage and its tough to find out what to do. This is a list of my conflicts and current decisions: Smoke, kajal, powder, etc: Doctors say that… Read More »
I had written earlier about how Nisarg was having problems with gas and diarrhoea and the doctor had prescribed Bonnisan. Then I wrote about how after just two days, Nisarg had normal baby poop for the first time in his life. Well…. half a month later, we haven’t had a single loose bowel movement yet,… Read More »
Just had some awful news. A friend of mine had a son recently and he developed some problems after birth and had to be hospitalized, where he died after two days. This must have been the hardest thing I have ever done….. I gave her a call and spoke with her briefly. What do you… Read More »
Okay, like I said that the baby’s loose bowel motions got sorted by Bonnisan, the other helpful miracle we had with the infant gas and colic was Neopeptine drops for infants. We had been asked not to give gripe water to Nisarga. Opinions vary on this from gripe water containing something that is risky for… Read More »
Last night Nisarg cried, and cried, and cried. Poor chap. He vomitted a couple of times, had loose stools, gas…. and was utterly miserable. He wanted to be held all the time and still sobbed on and off. Nothing worked. feeding, burping, music…. Just as I was about to rush him to the ER of… Read More »
Is Nisarg teething? Everyone I shared this doubt with thinks I’m nuts. For one, he was born early. For another, he’s not even two months old yet. Its supposed to begin after four months and supposed to be even later for babies who come early. Since yesterday, he’s been fussy on and off for no… Read More »
Of course I did a whole load of searching on Bonnisan, and then tasted it myself before even showing baby the bottle…. I’d read all kinds of nice things about it, which kind of reassured me, and the taste is nice – similar to gripe water, so initially I didn’t know what the doctor’s big… Read More »
We had our third doctor’s appointment today. Ever since I started surfing the net and discovered that my baby was “near-term” and “underweight” I’ve been obsessing about getting him on the charts. So much for accepting the baby how it is. On some level, I think its good for Nisarg that I’m obsessing over his… Read More »
We had gas pain again last night. This time around, I was able to comfort him in an hour…. which is too long for my baby to be in pain… What worked was: Playing his favourite music Cuddling to comfort him Breastfeeding to comfort him Patting and stroking his back while cuddling to help him… Read More »