Today was a fabulous day for this mother and baby. Nisarga had been suffering from bouts of inconsolable crying for the last couple of days, which had made him pretty miserable. Would have been funny if it weren’t so heart breaking. He used to look really puzzled by his own crying…. Anyway, that is in… Read More »
The first week passes in a daze of information overload and sleep deprivation. Everything is new, emotional….. Too much is happening. The body has gone through a tough time, a whole new person is attached to me like superglue for the foreseeable future, too many people coming over to meet, well meaning advice being shoved… Read More »
This post explores my thoughts around our own unconscious processes and desires, and looks at their impact on children, who are literally absorbing everything we say as the whole truth. It is based on an earlier email to a group forum I no longer haunt, so some of it may seem a little “context specific”.… Read More »
This is a new experience in life. Using a dropper to give medicine. I always keep second guessing myself, and my methods of delivery. I guess it doesn’t matter so much if you are giving something like Bonnisan, for example, but if you are giving a medicine where you don’t want an overdose because of… Read More »
It is quite easily accepted these days to immediately attend to a crying infant. However, some don’t and it has nothing to do with the infant and everything to do with what the crying does to us…. Here are some incidents from our family. Let me begin with saying that sheer over-exposure has made me… Read More »
No, really! Nisarga has a rash on his face. He had it earlier, and I told the massage woman to stop using oil on his head and face. It cleared. Once it cleared, everyone ganged up together to insist that he will not thrive unless his head is oiled regularly, particularly the fontanelle. That’s plain… Read More »
Woke up this morning to the music of Nisarg cooing loudly and waving his hands. It was quite clear he was trying to get my attention while I’d been sleeping. He was hungry. My little sunflower had unfurled for the day, and smiling!!! What a lovely morning. We had this beautiful feeding time with the… Read More »
In my eagerness to create the best world for my baby, I haunt online places for growth and development regularly. Forums are some of these. A common factor I find in these places is how much parents get their children to do. A real life friend of mine has a son who does a whole… Read More »
Okay, the baby had had a bad night two days ago, and the pediatrician prescribed atarax drops – 10 drops morning and night. She asked me to call back in a day. I’d given him the drops and he slept most of the day away. I assumed it was from being so utterly exhausted. He… Read More »
Okay, Nisarg is definitely using sign language. I’d thought so earlier. Since then, he’s signed “milk” a couple of times more. I’d been trying to get a video, but he does it rather absently, and when I approach with my phone in hand, he starts interacting with me, waving and sucking his fist. Finally, I… Read More »