#shared Here are few suggestions to ensure you do not transmit infections to your family Things to do when: You go to work: ✓ Consider shifting to scrubs. ✓ Wear short sleeves - less chance of your clothing picking up anything you don't want to be taking home. ✓ Tie your hair up. ✓ Take... Continue Reading →
What Is It Like To Be A Mom?
...asked my sister A who is in her mid twenties. She is back home for Summer holidays. "Answer me, no??", she nudged raising her voice. "Ssh...!", I drew my index finger across the lips asking her not to wake up the sleeping baby and pulled her towards the adjacent room. She watched me heave a... Continue Reading →
STAR RENDEZVOUS With Ananta Goyal
Hola readers!! Allow me to introduce my favorite millennial mom blogger Ananta Goyal for today's Star Rendezvous column. Being a fashion diva who is super-popular in Instagram for her candid lifestyle updates and genuine product reviews, Ananta also shares her pregnancy&parental cognizance in her blog - bumpandbabyy.com. I find her IG stories warm and positive,... Continue Reading →
Microblog Mondays – Monday? Yes, please.
This evening, while unpacking the grocery boxes, I heaved a sigh of relief and muttered, "Few more hours, thank God, the weekend is going to be so over!". Dr.H understandingly nodded back. I guess after having spent nearly four hours fixing the sump he must be too tired to even grouse like I do. The... Continue Reading →
Snippets From The Absorbent Mind – On Infancy and Environment
According to Maria Montessori, the first six years of life is when the child develops his own mental flesh, using which he explores, judges, embraces and fights the world for the rest of his life. And it all gets kickstarted the moment they are born into this world. Right from infancy! ◎ The absorbent mind... Continue Reading →
Snippet #33 Just Toddler Things
Visuals courtesy: Giphy, Unsplash I wake up on time, sometimes even before the alarm goes off, just to ensure I'm beside mommy. She is fast asleep. Why bother her? May be I should rip this diaper off myself. PLONK! Upon mommy's cherubic face falls the loaded diaper worth a kilogram, leaving a wet stain as... Continue Reading →
Postpartum Blues – A Summary Of Lessons Learnt
The reason I am composing this all of a sudden is because I met a close friend and her newborn princess yesterday. They are in the pink of health but Dr.H and I sensed subtle traces of Postpartum Blues in the mother which flashed in front of our eyes my very own story that happened... Continue Reading →
Pongal Wishes
The beginning of auspicious Thai maasam is something I look forward to, with indomitable spirit and high hopes. This is baby D's second Pongal. I don't remember celebrating one last year. But the husband says we did. Who knows, may be we really did have had a blast back then, my vacuous mom brain could... Continue Reading →