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maradelkitchen:
Thanks,but I want to start weaning her by month end,so what do you think I can do?

One doesn't really need to eat for two to make breastmilk. You only need about 500calories more to sustain a good supply...That said, you need about 5 small meals a day but don't suddenly reduce your intake cos the sudden decrease would affect your supply. Substitute high carb foods for moderate carb ones... That's sweet potatoes for yam, oatmeal for garri, eat lots of vegetables and stay very hydrated.
Don't take very heavy meals at nighttime.
Exercises would also help.

Why is sugar harmful to Babies below 1 year?

1. Sugar is refined by lot of chemical processes which may be harmful to children.

2. Excess sugar may cause caries and tooth decay in children.

3. Excess of sugar may depress immunity.

4. Research has also shown that children fed with high sugar diet were prone to cardiovascular, diabetes and obesity.

What to substitute for sugar in baby foods?

Although your baby doesn’t need sweetening of foods daily, you can add natural sweeteners to Kheers, Porridges, baby-friendly cakes, and desserts.

Natural Sweeteners for Baby food

1. Any fruit can be added to baby food to make them naturally sweet

2. Dates Syrup (After 8 months)

3. Honey (After 1 year)




*****Thought to share this.
Just for the new moms that aren't aware of this, giving honey to baby's under one can cause BOTULISM a fatal condition.

mydeporch:
Learning mode activated.
@ Fed.dy27 and sug.ah. Weldone mamas.i av written down all those your food combo. The +milk part means formula milk right?
@ sug.ah .thanks for sharing with us all these helpful recipes. what type/brand of oat do you use for swallow. How do you blend it. At home with blender or outside?

I use regular Quaker oats and blend using the dry mill of my blender. Then just make like you make semo.
+Milk is either formula or breastmilk.

feddy27:
Yay! Go girl... You are doing well

Yes o, thanks for your tips

feddy27:
I decided to make homemade meals for my daughter.

Examples of what she takes:

1. Sweet potatoes+chicken+peas
2. Millet/Guineacorn pap + apples + milk (I make the pap by myself)
3. Ground rice + carrot + milk
4. Oats +banana + milk
5. Maize pap + peanut butter or avocado + milk
5. Irish potatoes + carrots + fish

All these meals listed above, I blend them to puree, add formula before giving it to her. You can try to play around recipes too. Check mummysyum.com; you will get nice ideas

Yes o, homemade all the way.
We make our oat into swallow and he takes it with any soup on the menu. That's his best meal!
At 7 months I also introduced beans and plantain porridge.

It's a lot easier if you have good power supply as you can prep the foods and store in the freezer. I make quantity of about a week, put in ice cube trays and freeze and put in labelled Ziploc bags. Then you just mix your combo.... Easier that way for working mom's.

FINA4804:
sorry, I travelled since 22 March, there was no much network where I was. Next time. I am expecting your call for other things

No P. I would.

Shawbabe:
If you actually check my posts from the beginning of time, I have always been one to preach against that nonsense parole of sharing with random internet stranger! I have also preached against disclosing flight details down to day of travel. Yup! I know I'm psycho, and we're plenty out here....tryna save yalls asses coz I have so much love for yall!

True! ( And before you come guns blazing, I mean the preachings..... )



..And you've done a fine job of showing how psychotic a potential roomie can be.

This should be an eye opener to people looking for Internet strangers to share accommodation with (especially the person looking to share her chase suites room), you might just be opening your life up to a Looney. Not everyone on the internet is mentally, psychologically and emotionally normal.

MamaOO:
Issa mental case

SMH. Some husbands do have 'em...... That's assuming there's an unfortunate man behind 'it'

MamaOO:
Hahaha. Find am well o. The party is gonna be the first weekend in September. Labor day weekend. Remember I had him on Labor Day 2016?

Oh yes! I don't know where I'd be sef. But id let you know, worse case you courier our cake

womanofsteel:
Abeg make una no vex o, is there different types of similac? The one i used recently I bought it for 1300 that is one thousand three hundred naira only before some people will think it's a typo error. Please I need answers because I am confused ooo

The US Similac big pack is 22k... (Pic attached)

Liftedhands:
The child of mine I feed this formula must never carry 2nd in class! It has to be distinction all.the way lolz.

Thank God my son rejected it sef cos my DH was asking how many months the milk would last when I told him the price

FINA4804:
Lactogen- 1700, Similac-22000, aptamil-7500, enfamil-16000. SMA-6000, Nan-2200

I called you o, you dint take your call and did not call back. I needed the yogurt urgently so I had to call someone else.

Newmercies:
between 5,000 to 7,000

Small pack of Similac is 15k big one 22k...
Enfamil is about 18k.....

You might want to seek other options.

MamaOO:
I'll try the Isomil then. He makes a funny face, gags and then throws up when I give him the Enfamil. We are doing great oo. Already cutting teeth and trying to stand When next are you coming stateside? We are planning parry oo

Cool.
Dancing would not let him stand o only when he is practising his drumming skills but we still dey use torchlight find teeth.
I postponed that trip o, work tinz, ticket is still hanging sef. When be the party?

MamaOO:
I have no idea sis. My son doesn't eat formula at all. I tried to put some Enfamil that I got in the mail in his rice cereal and he kept vomiting the two times I tried. So I stopped it.
But IMO both are good. I was given Enfamil at my pediatrician's office and the hospital I had him, while we got Similac from the hospital he was at for jaundice. So I guess peds will recommend both.

I used enfamil for my son he vomited. I was asked to get Similac sensitive something for him he vomited as well. Feddy27 recommend isomil (soybased Similac) and he doesn't vomit it. That's what we have been using. You might want to try soybased milk too.
If I even give him cereal that contains milk like frisogold etc, he vomits it.
Anyways your breastmilk supply is fantastic you no need formula. How are you guys doing?

Doynb:
Go afternoon mamas, trust today is going well..... my daughter has this rash / patch on her back / shoulder(pix attached) , pls what can I apply to it, it feels coarse when touched...
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This is the baby "eczema" we were talking about some days ago.
What worked for us is E45 moisturizing lotion. One mama said Vaseline worked for her, Shea moisture baby eczema range worked for one and another said Aveeno eczema therapy worked. So choose what you can based on your pocket

realsupermum:
Thank you mama for this. Please I would like to know if am to use the conditioner when washing Everyday? Please what is Co -washing?

Sorry I forgot to explain that. Co-wash means washing with conditioner. You would apply the conditioner like you would your shampoo and wash the hair

Akorkor pull ups are just to help toddlers get used to the idea of wearing pants (pull up feature) while still keeping the function of disposable diapers.

realsupermum:
Good day mama. My almost 4 months old daughter hair is very thick,a big comb cannot pass through it and whenever I comb it she cries so much. I wash her hair once a week with sabamed shampoo for children but after then it's still thick. Please help mama's as I don't know what to do.

Ccmamas

Just some tips from a natural haired woman.
Get a moisturizing shampoo for her.
Conditioner for co-washing
Coconut oil/Shea butter
A very wide tooth comb.

You can co-wash every day and shampoo wash once a week.
Section her hair into 4 and apply coconut oil and Shea butter on each section and massage into the hair while detangling with your fingers.
Hold the hair by the base and gently comb the tips of the hair and move to the base.

If you can find it, buy a leave-in conditioner for babies for her
Never comb the hair when it's dry. If you want to comb it in-between baths, just sprinkle water on her hair to moisturize it first before combing.

The LOC method (Liquid e.g water, Oil e.g coconut oil and Cream e.g Shea butter) helps the hair to retain it's moisture.

olamitie:
ddnt know babies on exclusive cnt use infacol
Abeg infacol or collipan which one can someone use, at lest once in a while, cnt continue watching her writhing in pain ,shes on exclusive.

Exclusive is exclusive of other foods and water...Not drugs.

Chanbaby:
Mamas pls help I'm exclusively breast feeding so I got the medela advanced style electric pump. I barely up to 2oz in 30mins. At times the milk will be flowing very well but will stop after sometime but the pump will still working. when I try to press the breast directly milk gushes out. I'm I not placing it pump well? Pls help a new mom. I'm extracting cos I want to be sure my son gets enough per time since I'm not giving him formula.

The n1pple shield might not be your size.

TWoods:
I don't recall that there are "government" hospitals in the US. Hospitals here are privately owned, except maybe VA hospitals.

Be that as it may, the hospital you use is not the problem, the issue is when you use public assistance in defraying the costs of childbirth. That is not allowed under the terms of your visa.

There are public ( usually government funded) hospitals, non-profit hospitals and private hospitals in US.

enque:
yeah, i had it for a while on my left arm....but nothing i used seemed to clear it.
My mum told me not to bug my head that it would eventually go by itself (she said its the arm that baby's head rests on a lot), and it did.

Wow. Iv never heard about this.

Chanbaby:
Pls mamas that went on missionary journey as per the other thread how did u people go about ur babies immunization. I came back as soon as my baby clock 6wks and they gave him BCG and oral vaccine he is booked for penta next week. Hope I'm in line? Pls any advice on anything else to do?

Is the oral one polio? We got in at 4 weeks and got BCG and polio vaccines. Then continued with the others at 6weeks.

zimunachimdi:
hello ma,how is ur lo??
my son's dry skin has cleared for now.
i said before that doctor asked me to use original Vaseline blue seal for him,that is what i have been using since that made me to hold on those ones you and other mamas suggested..

but,i noticed that whenever he has high fever,dry skin will surface.

We are fine dear, thanks.
Why is he having the high fever and how often? I would be more concerned about that o. You can always continue using the Vaseline

AlphaHandMaiden:
Air conditioning is actually very drying for skin and hair. any air conditioner has a de-humidifying function i.e it removes water from the atmospher (that is why it drips /drains on the outside.) as very humid air is very difficult to cool.

don't confuse cooling with moisturising.

I am not confused. The irony was the sweating under normal climes but having very dry skin. He sweats so much that I cannot directly place a blanket over him while he is in an airconditioned room cos he would sweat.

Do you understand now?

rofemiguwa:
Is it a continuous use tin.or for treatment.

I use sheabutter,coconut oil n and zinc cream.but after sometime when i stop. It reappears again.am worried of the effect of continous zinc cream.

Thats why am looking for a one stop cream.
She sweats alot n sleeping on her back doesnt help matters

The irony eh? Dry skin but they sweat a lot.
I don't cover my LO directly even with the AC on, I just use the blanket to cover his cot else he would not sleep yet he has dry skin.
Maybe you should switch to a moisturizing lotion instead of the zinc? Cos it might take a while for the skin type to​ change, that is if it ever changes

Akorkor it's baby ezcema. Get any range of baby products designed to treat baby ezcema and she would be fine. Coconut oil might not be sufficient to treat it.
Aveeno or Shea moisture have some good products.
We use E45.

abujaniv:
Hello all. Apologies for barging in on your thread, but the issue of fake visas and stamps is an important one. We can not put a legitimate US visa into a passport that has counterfeit endorsements in it. Sometimes we see otherwise qualified applicants with fake stamps in their passport, and this is really unfortunate. It means that at the very least, they will have to get a new passport to be considered again for a US visa, but their credibility is irrevocably tarnished. If an applicant comes into the US Embassy/Consulate with fake or ill-got visas/stamps, the best case scenario for him/her is that they will be denied. The worst case scenario is that the applicant will be arrested on the spot, incarcerated, and hit with a lifetime ban on travel to the US.

Demidrason, as you can see, you are lucky you weren't arrested on the spot. Provide the information they asked of you and be ready to face the consequences of your actions or inaction.
Good luck!

CheeryChy:
Hello Beautiful mamas in the house. Longest time. Congrats to all that have offloaded and more grace to the waddling mamas. Just popped in to say Hi. Still waiting on God to join you again. Shout out to Blessedmum, Liftedhands, mignone, sugah, zaynie, mitchyy and other mamas. Kisses to all the amazing babies here.

It is well dear. You shall testify soon. But if I may ask, what have you been doing afterwards? You can join the TTC group to get tips and answers to questions