A week after he was born, his tummy started bloating. At first I really thought it was my imagination and was scared to tell my hubby and mom that the baby looked like a lizard about to lay her eggs. With his lean, long limbs and bloated tummy he either looked like an alien or a lizard I just described. When I did voice out my creative imagination, the peeps in my home apart from being annoyed at my senselessness also found the baby's tummy bloated. The baby also started making lots of grunting noises almost always.
It got me so worried that right after 12 days of his birth, I made him take his maiden car ride from home to the doctor's. I was pretty convinced that I was not fit to be a mother and raising such a delicate fragile creature is not my cuppa tea. Apparently the doc reassured that the baby was fine and the bloated tummy was because he was not burped after feeding.
Why dont the hospitals give a baby manual? For a person like me who survives with the TO-DO lists and reminders stuck on every steel surface in my home with magnets, who cannot cook one proper meal without my phone (for recipes) and measuring cups, raising a baby is quite a challenge without a manual. For the exorbitantly priced normal delivery I had, the hospital could at least have given one. I digress.
Well, now I burp the baby. He is a late burper though. His tummy has settled down and he seems to look a human child now. Thank God!
Meanwhile we had started him on urai marundhu with the advice of our favorite Dr.Sivaraman. And ever since he doesn't grunt and has a normal sized tummy.
This pack consists of 30 pepper-like pills to be taken once a day mixed with milk or honey after food. I soak a pill in expressed breastmilk for an hour, mash it with my finger tips later and then feed him using a medicine dropper.
It got me so worried that right after 12 days of his birth, I made him take his maiden car ride from home to the doctor's. I was pretty convinced that I was not fit to be a mother and raising such a delicate fragile creature is not my cuppa tea. Apparently the doc reassured that the baby was fine and the bloated tummy was because he was not burped after feeding.
Why dont the hospitals give a baby manual? For a person like me who survives with the TO-DO lists and reminders stuck on every steel surface in my home with magnets, who cannot cook one proper meal without my phone (for recipes) and measuring cups, raising a baby is quite a challenge without a manual. For the exorbitantly priced normal delivery I had, the hospital could at least have given one. I digress.
Well, now I burp the baby. He is a late burper though. His tummy has settled down and he seems to look a human child now. Thank God!
Meanwhile we had started him on urai marundhu with the advice of our favorite Dr.Sivaraman. And ever since he doesn't grunt and has a normal sized tummy.
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