Pregnant Mommies India List

First of all congrats mommie. I understand how badly you need to prepare a list to get things from India for various reasons. Go read ahead and trouble your mom or mil to grab these.

Caution: Practices & traditions in each household/cultures are different. However i have asked too many people for my baby and came up with this list. You please touch base with your family. 

Baby Needs

1. CLOTHES
• 3-5 Cloth diapers: to use incase of diaper rashes.
• 5-10 cotton wash clothes: Keeps lips soft. 
• Soft red satin cloth: Mil says keeps the lips red.
• Sweaters and full arm clothes for baby.
• One absorbant cloth:  to use for base while carrying baby. You can get here in hospital as well.
• 2 soft indian cotton towels.
• Kajal: Mom brought home made kajal for baby.
2. FEED
• Woodwards gripe water/Aum water : Babies are too fuzzy and they keep farting a lot. so this is very helpful.
• Health mixture: Mom brought ja kayi+vaja+kaj kayi+badam+kalsakra and she makes a paste out of these for baby and we give it once a day. This is for strength.
• Livomine drops: Ayurvedic version of the health mixture. My doc in india highly recommended this.
3. BATH

• Baby bath massage oil: Initially i used a normal one. But once hez 3 months i want to mix mustard+olive+almond+til.
• Green gram flour aka Sunni pindi: My ped said no to this but you may get this for baby's bath.
• Small short legged table if your mom/mil plans to give bath to the baby in traditional style on the her legs.

Mother Needs

1. MEDICINAL
• Shathavari Kalpa
• Maha Sowbhagya Shunti
• Jeeraka Kashayam
• Anta unde : a dry fruits mix.
• Betel leaves mixture for gas.
2. CLOTHES
• Nursing bra
• Maternity night tops with zips in right places.
3. 5 powdered mixtures: pepper, coriander, ginger, garlic & one more.

Month 2

This chotu is too smart. I think his grandma is training him to be so. They both bond amazingly well. My mom is a introvert actually and playing with kids is her passion (I have definitely inherited that :)) She and he go on talking for minutes about random silly stuff. Me & MM have a laugh at this duo actually. He has learnt to coo and make sounds. Sometimes he responds amazingly well to the questions we ask iff hez done with his feed and has had a good nap. He says good morning in the same tone as mom says. I think he may learn to speak soon. :)

After dad left i got involved in his bath time. Trust me, these are so delicate that i need to pour water also with so much caution. I can spend hours together looking at this wonder but these days he identifies/ smells me and cries relating me with his food. So i instantly hand him over to mom or MM. All of us actually fight to burp him. He he. MM doesn't involve much in anything though he claims to know everything, but loves to burp him and kiss him. MM's mush kinda hurts him and he responds so cutely staring into his dad's eyes.

He feeds exact 2 hrs intervals during the day and night about 3hrs plus. I'm astonished how this guy realizes its 2hrs and hez up and crying. A few days back myself and him cuddled (Hez begun to stick to me and sleep) Mom said it was so wonderful to see us like that. When he is next to me, i am more cautious and hence do not sleep well, so i prefer putting him to sleep in the swing for few hrs so i can sleep and roll as much i want.

When he is hungry he makes a frown. I don't understand how he learnt that. He looks at his grandma or dad and makes that. n they both instantly search for me. How this cute creature displays emotion is so puzzling!

I feel he sort of understands me. We had been to grocery shopping and he didn't disturb his momma. The other day had been to bhajan and he didn't wake up there. I'm also a good mommie, 3.5 hrs i had wrapped up everything and i brought him home quick so fed him at home.

Making besan ladoo for this month bday. Cheers to me n my beta!! I'm royally enjoying creating collages of his pics and doing all funny naughty stuff. :))

VML & GG 2014

Gowri Ganesha Aug 27  2014

Varamahalakshmi Aug 8th 2014