A complete checklist of what to pack in your hospital bag
It is natural for a mom-to-be to worry about things like when would the labour kick in? Will she be prepared enough when it’s time to go to the hospital …
Natural skin care regime for healthy and glowing skin.
Sleep, drink water and treat your skin – Georgia Louise Our skin is the largest organ and we very conveniently forget to take care of it. Our activities and habits …
How To Ensure Oral Health and Hygiene Of Your Baby
Habits such as brushing teeth regularly, drinking milk and eating healthy will go a long way in helping your baby to become a healthy man! The phrase, “the earlier, the …
9 items that I carry for my toddler when we travel
Travelling sets you free. It truly refreshes you from within. The excitement that comes up with exploring and traveling cannot be summed up in words. To me, TRAVEL is, a …
Benefits of Charcoal Based Face Washes
Activated Charcoal face washes, much like the Korean DIY masks took the internet by storm. Facebook and Instagram are flooding with images of men and women advertising charcoal face masks …
How to Choose the Best Shampoo and Wash for Your Baby?
Today, there are so many choices available in the market when it comes to baby shampoos. Hence, it is not strange for parents to feel baffled, while selecting the right …
Safe and Certified Monsoon Protection for your Baby
Monsoon is a pleasant relief from the hot summer. But it brings along with it, the woes like water borne diseases, colds and mosquitoes. Here are answers for the common …
Skin Care Regime Post Pregnancy
Motherhood is exciting and all your attention now is to take care of your little angel. It is so much so that, new moms even forget taking care of them. …
Skincare Post Shaving
You might have managed to get rid of that week long stubble and get yourself a clean shave. But don’t forget to take care of your skin post shaving, which …
5 Things That Helped Me Lose My Baby Weight
The decision to become a mother and carrying the little one in the womb, is still easy, in comparison to what happens after the birth of the baby. Whether C-section …
How To Deal With Your Kid’s Homework Effectively In Your Busy Schedule
Juggling between household chores and work is not easy. Working mothers or otherwise, both need to be up on toes to meet the needs,so as to provide what is expected …
How To Ensure Your Child’s Innocence Stays Alive In The Digital World?
Innocence, inquisitiveness, mischief – for me these words define the essence of childhood. I too was always up to do some trick or question my parents and elders. They were …
Summer Safety Tips for babies between 0 to 1 year
Infants, their care is ever demanding. More so in the SUMMERS when the sun is at its brightest and hottest self, when days are longer, when disease-carrying pricking mosquitoes breed …
7 Tips to reduce stretch marks during pregnancy
If you are pregnant, you must be aware that your body goes through a lot of changes. Your stomach stretches like a balloon and other places just aren’t the same …
Top 5 Baby Shower Gifts for New Moms
Invited for a baby shower? You must be confused and clueless on what to get the mom-to-be. Well, it can be quite a harrowing affair to get an appropriate and …
Ways To Manage Gestational Diabetes
Pregnancy comes with a long list of things to tackle, and gestational diabetes is one such. It usually develops during pregnancy and disappears soon after delivery. It is nothing but …
What Causes Morning Sickness During Pregnancy
Well, this is something almost every pregnant woman goes through. Now the euphoria of discovering your pregnancy just changed into a constant hangover. It is this feeling of nausea in …
Nursing Mom Problems? Learn 10 Easy Recipes to Increase Breast Milk!
Mother’s milk is a healthy and nutritious food for all newborns. You know well that it nourishes them with essential nutrients and boost their immunity to fight off diseases. Also, …
ARE MOTHERS ALLOWED TO MAKE MISTAKES?
I could not feel my heartbeat… My toes were cold and my mouth was dry… I felt a chill down my spine as I looked at my only child’s skin peel …
A Quick List Of Things Your Newborn Actually Needs
Taking care of your newborn baby’s needs can be overwhelming if you don’t know what they actually need. It really doesn’t matter how many articles/ books you have read —the …
Ways to Get a Good Night’s Sleep During Pregnancy
Pregnancy is an exciting stage for any women, but exhausting too. The amount of physical discomfort, anxiety, and hormonal changes a woman undergo during pregnancy is not even funny. Heartburns, …
What Causes Colic in Babies? Home Remedies that Can Help
Well, crying is the only way your little angel can do to communicate with us. As parents, we are wired to respond to all their needs. Listening to our baby …
5 Tips to Juggle Pregnancy and Work that Simply Work!
Pregnant and working? Get ready for a 24/7 hustle! Women have always been known to have an inherent ability to multitask. Still, juggling work and pregnancy is going to be …
7 Pregnancy Myths Busted, Dusted, and Done!
You get to hear loads of old wives’ tale when you are pregnant. These can be entertaining, but some of them could also worry you. From books to magazines and …
What foods you think you can eat while breastfeeding but shouldn’t be
Like most expectant mothers, you made your best attempt to eat healthy during pregnancy to ensure a bonny baby. But should you really stop keeping an eye on what you …
TIPS FOR PLAYING A SAFE HOLI WITH KIDS
With Holi around the corner, the excitement levels among kids are rising. Colours, water guns and water filled balloons are the flavour of the season. Holi is fun to celebrate, …
9 Surprisingly Simple Things to Consider Before New Moms Get Back to Work
The blissful post-pregnancy period is over and you’ve delivered a plump and healthy munchkin, nourishing him with your care and affections all the while. Now, it’s time to return to …
Things You Should Avoid While Exercising during Pregnancy
Pregnant and paranoid? Well, you should be! Pregnancy is the most amazing phase a woman goes through in her entire life. The feeling of nurturing an unborn life who is …
7 Things you had no idea babies learn in the womb
While older children have school playgrounds, tiny tots have playpens. What do unborn babies have? Their mother’s safe and cozy womb! The mother’s womb is the perfect playground where the …
6 Unbelievable Baby Care Myths Busted!
Pregnancy, parenting, and baby care are surely the hottest topics on the internet and in the inner circle. But don’t believe the hype because everyone becomes an expert when it …
4 Steps To Avoid Hair Fall and Boost Your Hair Growth
Ladies love their tresses a lot! But when they find their hair lying on the floor, or comb or on their favorite pillow they turn highly upset and worried. And …
5 Tips for Expecting Mothers to Stay Happy & Positive During Pregnancy
Pregnancy is the most beautiful time in a woman’s life. However, so many pregnant mothers stress over their health, relationships, finances, and the future of their little ones. However, there …
Miracle Mask to get glowing skin in 15 minutes!
Ladies, I am sure you long to have a beautiful glowing face every time you see yourself in the mirror! And for that, you desire to have that one magic …
7 Ways to make your baby laugh
Few things beat the endearing sound of a baby’s gurgling giggles. Laughing is a vital milestone that shows the child’s emotional, cognitive, and social skills. Laughing, much like other fundamental …
How to go from Postpartum Depression to Postpartum Delight
Having a baby can be a hair-raising experience, but at the same time, you experience an overwhelming sense of joy and euphoria too. Feeling over-emotional in the first few days …
Breastfeeding 101: How To Make Sure Your Toddler Is Feeding Right
We all know being a mother is not easy. No matter how many pregnancy guides you read, nothing can prepare you for the task ahead except actual experience, but knowing …
Because Pregnancy Can Make Even The Sanest Woman Crazy
I’m not sure what I’m asking of you here- emotional support, advice, or just a message telling me to get over my problems. I’m not even sure which one would …
5 (Not So) Easy Steps To Teach Your Baby To Put Himself To Sleep
As parents, we will agree that putting our baby to sleep is one of the most difficult tasks, and sooner or later, we need to teach them to go back …
7 Tricks For Every Mom To Ace This Motherhood Thing
Every old mom knows that every new mom needs all the help she can get when it comes to parenting. There is no instruction manual for motherhood, but we know …
A Survival Guide For Every New Dad Out There
We have often talked about how motherhood is hard, and how much mothers need and rely on tips and tricks from fellow mothers for such an important phase of their …
10 cancerous chemicals to strictly avoid in your baby products
I was never in the habit of turning over product bottles to read the ingredients/composition until I had my first child. Anything that comes with googly-woogly ads and cute bottles …
Sunscreen essentials-4 essential factors to keep your baby safe
The choice of baby sunscreen is as important as choosing the right gynaecologist to deliver your bundle of joy. Okay, not as expensive maybe. But, a well informed one. There …
Sun exposure – the terrible truths of its effects on your baby
If you have NEVER held a newborn in your hand and felt, “Aw, so soft!”, while rubbing their cheeks, you are probably Hulk in disguise. Skin is the softest and …
Hazardous effects of Insect bites you must know about
“Mumma, I slayed a monster who attacked me!!” my pint-sized nephew who was about three, said to my cousin with importance. He showed me a pesky mosquito whose remains were …
12 Easy steps to completely prevent harmful insect bites
“Goodnight, don’t let the bugs bite!!” I said to my five year old. He smiled but I couldn’t help despair at the angry red swollen marks he had on his …
9 elementary safety facts about baby hair wash needs
My babies were both born with the hair on their head more prominent than any of their other features. I had seen a lot of baby hair wash commercials of …
8 essential things to consider while buying your baby shampoo
They say that a baby’s smell is the most adorable one. It is different, soft and endearing and many people wish they could bottle that smell and make a perfume …
Horrible Blisters on bottom of your little one? It could be Diaper rash!
Blisters on tender bottoms in red patches were gaping at my face when I lifted two tiny legs delicately clutched between my fingers, to change the diaper. Poo and pee shamelessly …
Amazingly simple Diaper Rash solutions for a guilt free Mommy!
‘A stitch in time saves nine’ goes the saying, and it is true for nappy rash as well. If the rash is not treated in time it can become a …
Dry skin tormenting your Baby and you? Find Out Why!
I can’t honestly think of anything more tender and gentle than a baby’s skin. That feeling as you pick up your baby and nuzzle her close to you, is one …
7 Essential steps to keep your new born moisturised
In my earlier article, I discussed the causes of dry skin in babies. Let’s have a look at how to alleviate the distress, with a moisturizer and other options, at all times! …
9 things your hospital bag checklist must have while preparing for labor
So you’ve started packing for the D-Day! It’s your 34th week and you expect to pop anytime soon. You can’t wait to get done with this now! All that glow-show …
Looking like an unkempt whale? 10 tips to look gorgeous during maternity
Rrrrip! Embarrassing! At 17 weeks, when my trousers ripped in an office meeting, I knew I had to make THE maternity wear adjustments that I had been avoiding. I got to into …
12 fun last trimester activities to make it the best time of your life!
“Awwww! You made me my favourite breakfast? Awwww!” I said to A, my husband. I was so happy to see the sunny side up he had lovingly made for me. …
7 solutions for stress free air travel with infants in India
Traveling with a baby is never easy. Air travel with infants in India somehow just makes it all seem a tad scarier! Actually, with the right preparation in place, it’s just …
7 delightful breastfeeding activities to keep away boredom
So, when you initially start off, nursing is a big deal! Like a really big one. The baby needs to latch properly, you’re propped up by a million pillows, you …
12 simple steps to help your older child adjust to the newborn
So, congratulations! In a little while, you will be a mama to the new baby! You and your husband are thrilled but you are worried about your precious daughter/ son …
An Idiot’s guide to child proofing the Indian home
If your due date is by the end of this month or next, nesting instincts must have taken you over and you should be busy cleaning, pruning and mending things …
The Right Mother but for the Wrong Reasons
Yes, it was blood-curdling. It was horrifying. You wish she had never been married. We are talking about what you felt when your little darling daughter was undergoing a C …
The paternal Grandmother – wisdom from one grandmother to another
This tiny lump of humanity is gently put into your arms. A gush of love swamps you. It is hairless, mottled pink and oh, so beautiful! You burst out, ‘It’s …
Essential and simple steps for safely bathing your newborn
I was startled by how delicate newborns are when I was handed one of my own in the hospital. When she was in the hospital crib, my husband and I …
Wondering if you need a baby wash for your newborn? Here is why and what!
The essential parts of bath-time are water and well…soap or baby wash. Read more about basic steps to keep in mind while bathing your baby in my earlier article. Baby soaps …
Amazing benefits of body massage for newborns and you
Massage : Ahhh. I always imagined it to be a superbly relaxing affair. After all, the definition of massage is “rubbing and kneading of muscles and joints of the body …
Excellent all-round benefits of Sesame oil for baby massage
Sesame. The magic word. Do you remember ‘Open Sesame!’ in ‘Ali Baba & Forty Thieves’? Whilst we do not know if he was referring to the Sesame seed, a theory …
Shocking News! Harmful chemicals in the womb
We have always believed that the mother’s womb is the safest place. Well, here is the bad news! Research has proved it wrong. Pollutants can be a threat to unborn …
Combat dark skin during pregnancy, acne and other skin problems with these 6 easy steps.
Congratulations to you as you embark on the journey of motherhood! If amidst a multitude of changes in your body, you happen to notice that your skin has patches of …
Simplest way to get rid of pregnancy aches and pains.
I was on cloud nine when my pregnancy test came positive, but soon reality bit me.The ahhs, ohhs and touches became quite frequent. My back and legs started hurting a …
6 effortless ways to stop pregnancy related hair fall
The hair on the brush, hair on the pillow, hair in the bathroom drain, hair on the floor, hair on the car seat, hair in your baby’s mouth! Hair! Hair! …
Pregnant? Read this before you use any lotions on yourself!
Hey, Congratulations on your new motherhood! Isn’t that what you have been hearing for a while now? But who knows what’s going through your mind! Are you worried that you …
6 Simple ways to prevent and cure sore and cracked nipples
Are sore nipples stopping you from enjoying your motherhood to the fullest? Then this article is just for you. You are not alone! 80 to 90% women-who have breastfed have …
Stretch Marks During Pregnancy worrying you?
Pregnancy changes you as a person – emotionally, psychologically and physically. It is a journey of self-discovery as you sail through the nine months discovering instincts and emotions you never …
Say goodbye to dark circles & puffy eyes with these 5 easy ways!
Along with the various changes that a woman’s body and skin undergo post-delivery, under-eye dark shadows are a definite factor that could undermine the mother’s confidence about her body-image. Hormonal …
Moms Here’s the secret to feel better!
A mom toils day in and day out! She takes care of the little one, feeds her, looks after all the cleaning that seems endless to her and much more. …
New Moms- Know how to promote healthy Lactation?
For any Mom holding her little bundle of joy in her arms makes her the happiest. She showers her baby with all the love and affection and makes it a …
Organic Apple Cider Vinegar- The Wonder Liquid for Women!
A Must have for Healthy Skin, Hair, and Health! We, women, go through major life-changing experiences. And during such times are prone to sudden weight gain. It could be blamed …
Passion For Parents- Don’t let your romantic self get lost with kids around!
Intimacy, the warmth between the partners often takes a backseat after becoming parents. Many new parents face the problems of performance, meeting their partner’s desires due to the high-stress levels. …
Plant DHA for Mama – A must have for expecting mama to ensure a healthy baby!
Development of a healthy fetus is what every mother dreams of! During pregnancy, all she cares for is her baby’s sound development. And thus, readily follows everything that is told …
Moms – It’s time to say goodbye to Stress!
Moms stress out a lot. Being a parent, taking care of small little things for the baby, chasing them to have some food, asking them to do their homework, scolding …
4 Easy Ways To Reduce Hair Fall Naturally!
New moms experience sleepless nights and days due to hair fall, especially early on in the post-pregnancy phase. Suddenly there is hair all over the place – on the clothes, …
Fight Post Partum Hair Fall With This Miracle Oil
Post pregnancy hair fall is quite common and happens due to several hormonal changes. But if you don’t take control of it on time, it can very quickly go from …
This Pro Growth Tonic Reduces Your Post Partum Hair Hall In 30 Days
The lustrous mane that you had during pregnancy will soon vanish once you have the baby. It will be followed by falling hair, and you’ll have thoughts of you going …
No More Frizzy Hair with this Silicone Free Conditioner!
Frizzy hair. Damaged Hair. Unmanageable Hair. All of them silently cry out for help as they long to be conditioned and taken care off. While shampooing is one part of …
The Right Mother but for the Wrong Reasons
Yes, it was blood curdling. It was horrifying. You wish she had never been married. We are talking about what you felt when your little darling daughter was undergoing a C section.You and the other mother held each other and cried. For all women who go through hell to produce a baby. But, you forgot […]