How a mother’s emotional health affects her baby
A new mother has to deal with round the clock demands of infant care. In the process, she is often sleep-deprived and fatigued. Infant care can be overwhelming at times. It is common to feel [...]
Nutritious, yummy & easy traditional snacks for breastfeeding mothers
As a new mother are you experiencing hunger pangs, acidity, gassiness & feeling exhausted post delivery? These are common issues postpartum. Your body is recovering from childbirth & also in the constant milk production mode [...]
Easy and healthy baby food options while travelling
Planning a trip with your baby? Whether it is a few hours of outing or a vacation, a mom’s holiday planning bloats with ‘What should I feed my baby while travelling?’ Fortunately, quite a few [...]
Baby blues & emotional upheavals postpartum
Childbirth brings with it a lot of hard work and sacrifice. Physical exhaustion is inevitable due to round-the-clock infant care, on-demand breastfeeding, sleep deprivation, etc.. Emotional draining happens due to sudden and 180-degree change in [...]
A detailed guide to exercise after delivery
Tending to a baby is physically and emotionally demanding as well as time-consuming. It very often leads to gross attention deficit towards yourself. But keep reminding yourself that you are a mother, not a martyr. [...]
Introducing solid food – A nutritionist’s guidelines to sustainable, healthy and fuss free baby meals
Food is an essential aspect of the physical and emotional well being of any individual. For a baby, the mother is his guiding light to the fascinating world of food. But for a mother, introducing [...]
Transition from Exclusive Breastfeeding to Solids – Part 1
"Food is the nourishment of the soul and body!" - Unknown (from Internet) Food is an integral part of my household. In fact, we happily spend a significant amount of our resources on planning, executing and relishing daily meals :-). [...]
Transition from Exclusive Breastfeeding to Solids – Part 2
The 2nd part of this post is about how the actual transition to solid happened till one year of age and the solids journey beyond that. To read about the 1st part of this post [...]
Transition from Exclusive Breastfeeding to Solids – Part 3
The third (and the last) part of this post is about the Learnings from Anu's solids journey so far. And of course about the course correction (based on our Learnings) we did (and continue to [...]