Post vaccination

Few steps to be taken after vaccination:
💉Remain with your baby at the vaccination centre. Calm your baby down.
💉Make sure that you write the dates on the card
💉These dates are the present vaccination date, saying that it is administered and the next vaccination date
💉 Sometimes instructions will be given like what to do in case of fever or swelling after the vaccine
💉Make a note of it, collect the necessary tablets for fever
💉Thank the nurses

Motherhood

😍Motherhood is one beautiful mess!😍

Mommy inspirations

“She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting , reading, music, and drawing.

“Well! This is one side of the story, to be sure, but I look at the other. Here is a sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which it dwells is worth all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant.

“I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ’s name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby you are welcome to your mother’s heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her lifelong prayers! O, how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!”

-Stepping Heavenward, by Elizabeth Prentiss, qtd. by Natasha Metzler
Re-qtd.by Laura

Vaccination

Vaccination is a must for every child. It protects the child against various diseases. Few tips:
Before vaccination:-
💉 Remember the date of every vaccine. Keep a reminder on your phone. Do not delay. Even in monsoon.📆
💉 Keep an ice pack ready in the refrigerator incase of festering of the injection wound or pain.
💉Always carry the card around. The next date and the present vaccination will be marked.📝
💉Always carry a napkin.
💉Always carry milk in a bottle or some snacks for older children.🍶🍼
💉Ask if any outcomes of the vaccine are possible. Like swelling, redness, pain or fever. Ask what must be done in case of any of the outcomes.🤒
💉Wrap up the baby well. Especially in the earlier months. Carry an extra wrapper if necessary.👶👶👶
💉Wait for some time within the health centre or hospital after the vaccination.
💉Weigh your child if possible.

Massage therapy for mothers

Along with the baby, massage therapy is essential for the new mother too.
The reasons being many:
1. To help the body cope with after the delivery.
2. To bring the body to its original condition and shape. Here focus is on the stomach and back.
3. To help the breasts in producing milk.
4. To get rid of the body aches.
5. To get rid of the pigmentation which is a part of pregnancy.
6. To help with the flow of blood.
7. To heal the body.
8. To strengthen the muscles, joints and bones.

Massage therapy for babies

Massage goes a long way in the initial few months of the baby.
From exercise to strengthening the bones, improving the complexion and a daily sound sleep it works well.
It is usually a family business in India where ladies are in the profession. Along with the baby the mother is also given a massage.
Post on it is coming up soon.
There are different ingredients used in a massage for the baby.
🍶Oil
Any oil right from olive oil, coconut oil, mustard oil purely extracted.
Indian languages would term it as ' oil from the village or native town'. This means that the oil is extracted without any impurities or additions. This means that the oil is full of aroma and thick when using it. Oil is warmed up and then used to prevent cold.
Oil of private companies like Johnson are also being used today.
Benefits: strengthening the muscles, bones and joints, cleaning up the impure or dry skin
🍶Milk cream
Known for its beauty benefits and cleaning properties, milk cream works best on the tender skin of the baby.
The cream that floats on top of the milk is carefully scooped out.
Used along with gram flour, it works wonders on the skin of babies.
Milk also is an option incase skimmed milk is only available.
Benefits: cleansing the skin, removes unwanted facial hair
🍶Flour
Gram flour, lentils like tur dal, masoor dal, moong dal are dried up in the sun and sent to the mill to make it into a fine powder like flour. Then a smooth paste is made along with milk cream or warm water and applied instead of oil. The baby is then massaged and bathed.
Benefits: cleansing the skin pores, coolness to the skin

Breastfeeding- part 2

Klk🤓Wet nipples.
For the first time before you feed your baby, it is necessary to wet nipples. The aroma of the milk makes it easier for baby to latch onto the breast.
🤓 Latching on.
Rest your back well.
Use a pillow to support baby. Especially the neck.
Use the elbow of your arm to rest baby's head.
Gently lift your breast towards baby's mouth.
Baby will latch on. Takes a few practices, you'll get a hang of it.
🤓 Changing sides.
I cannot stress more upon the importance of changing sides. Rest to your hands. Rest for baby. Rest for the breast. Fresh milk for baby. 10 minutes on each side should be enough for every two hours of feeding routine.