Tummy Massage for Colic Infant

Learnings of a new mom!

If your child is having trouble sleeping, few points to take sure:

• If your infant is a heavy wetter, or its winter, put them on a diaper during day time as well.
• After each feed, if they are falling asleep, let them sleep. Don't burp. Burp only if they are uncomfortable or awake. Keep them on your shoulders for 10 mins and make them sleep. 
• If you see they are not sleeping by their own, make sure you put them to sleep by holding them for naps, soothing them, gentle swaddling them in your arms. 
• Hold the baby for all naps. Let her sleep in your lap. Or while you're holding and rocking her.

Sleep cues of the baby:

• Bicycling their legs or pushing them out straight
• Arching back
• Waving arms around as though pushing you away with their hands and fingers wide open
• Hiccuping not related to feeding
• Sneezing
• Tongue thrusting  - this is poking tongue in and out 
• Gaze aversion or staring into space, at, tv, lights etc

Late signs of sleeping: 

• Rubbing eyes or rubbing their face into you
• Pulling their hair, your hair, their ears, their blankets, or clothes etc
• Yawning 

Too late sign of sleeping:

• Crying

Colic/Gassy baby

• Remember to give it half an hour before the infant's crying time
• Try colic aid.
• Decolic infant drops- Doctor suggested that it can be given 4-5 times a day. It did not work in my case.
• Ajwain Water - Tulsi leaves (2/3), water half cup, ajwain a pinch, jaggery. Boil everything and reduce it to a spoonful. Avoid giving it before 4 months.
• Homemade gripe water
• Neopeptine once a day
• Tummy time - helps to release gas
• Tummy massage 
• Fold the baby's ankles towards stomach such that thighs put pressure on the stomach. Push it up and down few times, it really relieves infant's tummy.
• My doctor gave Protectic baby drops (Probiotic). Really helpful for tummy relief.

For loose motion:

• Enterogermina

For fever:

• Sumol drops - 5 drops only if the fever is above 100

For nose block:

• Nasoclear
• Solspre - Insert into nose and press the nozzle. Immediately wipe the node with a cloth and take out the mucus. 
• Ear bud - wet the bud in nasoclear and clean the nose.

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Homemade gripe water for colic/gassy infant

Ajwain 1/4 tsp
Fennel seed 1tbsp
Zeera 1/2tbsp
Water 2glass
Jeggry 1/2tbsp(optional)

Soak all ingredients in water about 3 to 4 hr. Boil till water reduced by its half. Cool it. Sieve it and give twice in a day.

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No preservatives

Try to make fresh

Maasi's famous Kamli vada 😍😍

1 bowl Chana dal
1/4th bowl Moong ka dal -optional

Soak all of them together for 2-3 hrs
Drain the water and grind it without water with green chilly and ginger paste and form a thick paste
Then add palak finely chopped. Add little oil to the paste.

Add masala
Red chilly powder
Salt white and black
Sabut dhania
Amchur
Garam masala
Dhania powder

Mix well

Form half inch circle and half fry then take out. After it is cooled down, cut it into finger stick pieces and then fry it until its golden brown in colour.

Then garnish with chaat masala or black salt while serving.

Mummy's Pav Bhaji

1. Grate four carrot, and some ginger. Chop two capsicum, some cabbage, five tomatoes. Take some peas.
2. Take some oil and ghee. Add chopped capsicum, cabbage and grated carrot. Add salt and a pinch of turmeric. Add a glass of water and cover the lid.
3. After the veggies have been cooked properly, add ginger paste and tomatoes. Add red chili powder, pav bhaji masala. Let it cook for sometime covered.
4. Mash everything after it is cooked. Add 5 mashed boiled potatoes to it. Add lemon and some more masala according to the taste. Add coriander on top of it. You can serve with chopped onions on top.

Rice Kheer

1. Take very less ghee and saute rice in the ghee for a while.

2. Bring milk to boil in a separate pan, and add the sauted rice.

3. Let it boil for sometime, when it is cooked, add Sugar, powdered cardamon and clove.

4. You can add roasted almonds, cashew as well in the kheer after it is cooked.

Kullu Manali & Shimla - May 2018

It was our first anniversary and we had to go somewhere!! Sushil, Priyanka, Nitish and I decided the place to be the very famous old Shimla-Manali, to beat the summers of Hyderabad. What can be more relaxing than to be on a hill-station during the summer season of India. Thanks to the corporate world, where we cannot take more than a week holiday! So, it was a short trip again, two days in Manali and two days in Shimla. It was worth every penny there. The mountains, early morning view, river all the way along the journey and the pahadi's! It stole my heart.

The journey started on 30th from Hyderabad to Chandigarh via Delhi. We reached Delhi at midnight and checked in into a hotel next to the airport.

1st May, morning we had a flight to Chandigarh. Once we reached Chandigarh, the cab was waiting for us at the airport. We had booked a package from Antilog Vacations.
We started our trip to Manali. On the way to Manali we had breakfast (yum aloo paratha) at Haveli.. then lunch (which was okaish) at some random dhaba kinda on the way. We saw
Padoh river on the way.

On the way there was a long bridge on which we walked and clicked pictures.

We did river rafting on the way. The view was amazing. It was chill.

Finally we reached our hotel - snow villa. Had amazing north Indian dinner and walked in the area nearby to view the night chill scenes.

2nd May,2018: We woke up in the middle of the mountains, could see the snow-peaked mountains. It felt like Switzerland.

After having breakfast at the hotel itself, we headed towards the Solang Valley. On the way to Solang Valley, we saw lot of apple trees which did not start bearing the fruit though. The view on the way was awe-struck and serene.

We took an ATV to reach to the top of the Solang Valley. You can choose horses or simply walk up. Walking up is not a good option, as it is far and lot of ATVs and horses on the way would disturb.

We did some sports activities there, like crossing the river etc.
                                      

We proceeded to visit few more places which were in the package like mentioned below:
Nehru Kund,Kothi, Solang Valley (World Famous For Adventure Sports Activity) and up to Gulba/Hadimba devi Temple and Click Pics under pine trees/Vashit Hot Water & Old Shiva Temple /Club House/Tibetan Monastery/The Manali Mall Road.

We took a ropeway further from Solang Valley to reach further heights where people were doing paragliding etc.

We visited the mall road in the late evening and proceeded to take rest for the day.

3rd May, 2018: We were all set to start for Kufri. Took horses to Kufri.

We did not find any snow there. On the top of the mountains, after reaching there, we saw an old Shiva temple, and the view was good.  We proceeded towards Shimla.

On the way, we found lot of Minchy's shop and stopped to buy few sharbats and pickles.

We reached Shimla and visited the mall road. I fell in love with the mall road. We spent the entire evening there, roaming and having good food.

 

4th May, 2018. We proceeded to come back to Chandigarh. We had a flight from Chandigarh to Hyderabad the next day.