Summer outfit!

I use to give bath in the evening / night before she goes to sleep. I started this habit when she was 2 months old and still I'm continuing it. As summer started here, we cannot stay inside the house and we could feel the hot air even inside the house. So we march out to the kids park in the evening to get some fresh air. And Thamizhini used to play swing and Duck there. She would be sweating like anything, hence the evening bath these days makes her happy and makes herself feel fresh.

We started using A/c in the room and changed her night outfit. Look at the pictures below for how she is dressed up in the night to go to sleep.

I want to sleep...

She does not see any differences on her dress but I feel happy to see her in this dresses and she some what looks lean and lengthy :-)

Naan valarndhutennnnn....

I bought around 3 colors and took snaps every night to post this :P

Bye Bye..

Oh! Bye Bye is not for the blog. Now Thamizhini is able to say this. Also now days her mouth is always chanting something. It goes on like this.... gka gka, ma ma ma , ba ba, bye bye, bykee (for bike, once she told exactly same pronunciation). I guess she loves to hear her voice and that is why she keeps on blabbering. She will start talk to herself, whenever she has toys or some objects that interest her much and finishing touch would be high pitch shouting. Hmm... who knows, she must be teaching those words to the toys.

We try to cover her movements and these kinda chantings; but if she sees us with camera or mobile (camera), she stop doing that and started to watch us. Most of the time we loose clicking it in proper time.

Food Chart for a Baby

This chart is done by me based on My Dr.'s advise. This is what I have given to her for one year. I'm satisfied with this food chart as my daughter is falling under correct height & weight chart and my baby never had any allergic for anything. And I can proudly say that she has taken antibiotic only once for her 10months. That too, it was due to travel that we had taken in 2nd class sitting in the day train.

This is what I have followed:

From 1st to 5th month: Only mothers milk.

Nurse your baby every 2 hours once in the day time and at least 3 hours once in the night, this will surely help you to increase your milk supply.

Foods that are helpful for increasing milk supply, which I have followed, which was easy for me to have, which was easily available and easy to prepare. Below list is whatever I have eaten / drank!

1) Add garlic and cumin seeds in your food daily as much as possible

2) Fish (at least twice in a week)

3) Ponnanganni Keerai(Tamil keerai name) - two days once

4) Milk at least twice a day
5) Eat Quaker Oats with milk.
6) Mothers Horlicks

From 6th Month: Fruit Juices and Cooked Fruits along with Mothers milk

Juice in the morning at 11:30 and Cooked fruits evening around 4:00pm. Started with Musambi / Orange juice with water prepared in the following way:

First 2 days    : 1:3 (Juice : Water)

Second 2days : 2:2

Third 2days    : 3:1 

After this, complete juice without water. Diluting the juice for first week helps you to know that your baby have any allergic for the juice.

In the next week start with half Apple / Pear/ Banana at 4 O' clock in the evening. Apple and Pear must be pressure cooked in steam. 

How to pressure cook:

1) Clean the apple / pear and cut in to small pieces.

2) Put them in a small vessel and cover it.

3) Take a pressure cooker and pour little water as the above apple cup will not sink under the water.

4) Keep the apple cup in the water.

5) Cook in simmer for 3 to 4 whistle.

6) Once pressure gone, open it and smash the fruit with help of spoon.

7)Make it cool and feed to baby.

From 7th Month: Raagi Kanji (Finger Millet Porridge) in the morning around 8:00am and follow above chart for rest of the day.

How to prepare:

1) Take a small cup of dry Raagi and soak in the water in the previous day night.

2) In the morning, clean the water and grind in the mixer by adding water. Grind well.

3) Once done, filter the mixer content and take the milk out.

4) Pour the Raagi milk in a bowl and keep on the stove.

5) Make sure the stove on Sim, then stir well. (Even if you loose it for a minute, the porridge will be thick and clotted.)

6) Stir well and cook for 5mintues until it becomes thick. 

7) Make it cool and feed to baby by using spoon.

From 8th Month: Vegetables, Rice and Dal for lunch and Cerelac wheat for dinner. Solid food starts from this month.
1) Introduce one by one vegetables like Carrot, Beans, Peas and Potato; And each vegetable for 2days and next week onwards all mixed.

2) Cook little amount of Dal then mix it with smashed rice and feed to baby. You can add ghee too.

Later include all vegetables like beetroot, cauliflower, ladies finger and other kootu vegetables like peerkangai, poosanikai, keerai.

So from 8th month, baby would be having complete menu for her food. Below one was I maintained for her and as a chart it is as given below.

Breakfast at 7:30 to 8:00 - Raagi Porridge

@ 10:00                         - Mothers milk

@ 11:30                         - Orange / Musambi or any other Juice based on the season

@ 12:30 - 1:30                - Lunch (Veges, rice and dal)

@ 2:30 - 3:00                 - Mothers milk

@ 4:30                          - Cooked fruits / Banana.

@ 6:30 - 7:00                 - Mothers Milk

@ 8:00                          - Cerelac Wheat. 

@ 9:00                          - Bed time. Nurse her whenever she woke up in the night.

PS: I have never added sugar / salt for any of her food items until for her one year. Hence she never stuck to any of the food taste, she likes to taste all items whatever I give her. I have not yet started giving cow's milk to her. I will be starting after her first birthday.

9th Month

Oh! Time runs very fast and she completed her ninth month now.

Hmm... But when I think about her activities and developments, i don't see any improvements. She does not like (???) to crawl even though she turns herself very fast. Main reason for this is, we are all always near to her and therefore she does not really have a reason to crawl to get the things on her own as we always give her in hands whatever she wants.

Dr. also advised to leave her on the floor without any cloth under her. We started leaving her on the floor, so that it will be easy for her to move here and  there. But still she does not do that and I'm little bit angry too :P, but I guess problem with our self.  In this age, she needs to have some activities, just moving to and fro or atleast in one way. Her tummy is little bit bulgy and when I inquired Dr, she told me to put her down on her tummy for sometime, or even if she turns herself, that would be enough. She turns herself voluntarily now, but her grandparents feel that her tummy will pain :D  I don't think that she will crawl and roam the house.

Look at the video clip to know how she is trying to move on her crib:

Other than this, when it comes about food, she likes to eat sometimes and sometimes not. I guess its boring. ;-) Her hair started growing little bit and I hope we could see some hair on her head when she turns one.